Rover 600 Lights Mystery

Feb 09, 2004 3 Replies
M

I wonder if someone can advise on a problem with my Rover 620 P Reg.. Someone pointed out my rear drivers side tail light was faulty. Was a little blackened inside the glass and had obviously bown. Swopped it out with a new bulb and now I cannot get any rear sidelights, or front sidelights or number plate lights. Also dashboard illumination of speedo etc has gone. Headlights, stop lights, indicators all working ok.



Thought a fuse must have gone so located the correct fuse. Seemed ok but swopped it anyway. No change. Swopped a known working fuse in from hazards. Nothing. I assume its not the fuse therefore. Bit baffled. There is a larger unit within the fusebox called lighting relay - is that the problem perhaps? Whats does this do - is it expensive, worth swopping to test?



Any advice appreciated,



Thanks



Mike


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J

According to my Haynes manual, the sidelights, number plate lights and dash lights have a separate (possibly additional) fuse in the engine compartment fusebox, which is labelled FE. It is a 30A fuse, oriented l-r, third up from the bottom right, above the heated rear windscreen and heater blower fuses, and alongside the main battery and ignition fuses.

All this comes from the fusebox description - the actual diagrams fail to show fuse FE, nor do they indicate clearly how the lights you have lost are fused (possibly F1 in the engine box, top-right 10A).

Worth a try.

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M

John

Many thanks for this advice. As a result of your post I checked the fusebox in detail last night. The markings on the case differ from the ones in my owners manual and the advice in haynes. Bottom line the problem was in Fuse position 1 - NOT the one I had assumed was lighting from the fuse box diagram. New 10 amp fuse and all back working. Thanks very much for this pointer

best wishes

Mike

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J

You're welcome. Fuse F1 does seem to appear in the right diagrams in the right places, even if the legends claim otherwise (they think it's the dim/dip fuse). :-)

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