accessing relays behind fascia panel in late-1982 C900 - how?

Check your earthing point at that rear light cluster first. It may be a bad ground there, and is a common fault (rear light ground faults).

If you do need to drop the knee bolster, remove the steering wheel. Take out the ashtray, and unbolt the center console if you have one (one bolt behind ashtray, two screws under the center ribbed rubber strip at the bottom).

Where the console bolted in behind the ashtray is a larger bolt (13 or

Then, underneith the hood, in the inner wing directly under the corners of the windshield, there is a 10mm bolt on each side of the car. It may be covered in sealant that needs to be removed. It is a little fiddly, but you can get an extension especially with a UJ onto it. that should be all the bolts out now, and it comes out, then down, or down then out (can't remember exactley).

I think some of the later models have more bolts, but I don't have one of them so can't advise.

This sounds like an earthing problem for the rear light units, rather than an electrical fault behind the dash. My C900, Shitroen ZX and Ford Orions have all had fairly random acting rear lights. Cleaning up all the connections, and in the case of the ZX making "custom" earth wires solved the problem.

Mike

First thing I'd do is to run that ground wire properly, and either clean or replace the ground wire. It sounds very much like a bad ground at the tail light to me.

Harvey

Had exactly the same probs... fixed it using the instructions on the following link;

This could well explain why the donor car I've been comparing the wiring in my car with has a bolt and a replacement ground wire going to the rear earth point... Each rear light cluster in the donor car has one actually.

Sounds complicated but now I know where to look for all the securing devices, I should be able to work out how to make it happen! I'll check our the earthing issue first though as that's a lot simpler to take care of.

Craig.

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I've been lucky, apart from soome reversing light issues (and an indicator that stopped working on the day of the MOT, but was just a loose bulb rather than a failoed bulb), my rear clusters have been fine.

The dash isn't two tricky.

What is difficult the actual Dashtop/instrument cluster. Thats why a lot of jobs get done through the speaker holes. I've got a dash bulb (the one for the fuel/boost/temp gauge) out and it is a real git to try and get a grip on it to twist it, without being able to see where you are going.

Thanks for all the tips. I agree it seems like an earth problem so I'm going to fix it today. My donor car already has additional earth wires added for both rear light clusters so whoever owned that car in the past must have experienced the same sort of problem.

Craig.

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Fixed it today. Was an earth problem. Actually I found that one of the previous owners of the car has really stuffed a lot of the wiring since many of the non-factory wiring for the sound system, etc. has wire joins which are not soldered and simply twisted joins with electrical tape to prevent shorts against the chassis!

This is something I abhore since it smacks of the person having no clue how to make proper connections and perform wiring tasks so the wiring joins are reliable and safe for as long as possible.. 8-)

Judicious cleaning of the earth points (something else I did as well as installing new earth wires for both rear light clusters) will help too.

Craig.

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