'90 244 blows right parking lamp fuse

James Sweet ha scritto:

I hope that I have understand your problem because I had a similar on my

240. The switch of the parking light is placed about under the shifter, directly on the gear box. So if you take away the plastic cover of the shifter, inside the cockpit, you can see two wires that cames from the parking light switch. The wires, in the gear box zone under the car, are subjected to the oil corrosion and hot action. So they lost the plastic insulation and they make a short circuit. So the fuse interrupts the circuit. You have to replace the two wires from the connectors, placed on the gear box, to the cockpit zone. My car is for europe market but I have american repair manual on CD and it's the same.

By, Andrea

I think we may have a language barrier here. The switch on the transmission is for the backup (reversing) lights. The lights I'm talking about are called parking lights in the US, they are the dim lights at each corner of the car, yellow in front and red in back that switch on with the headlights, or they can be turned on alone when one is parked in traffic to make the car more visible. For some reason on this year 240, the left and right side parking lights are fused separately, and the fuse the right-hand lights are on is also shared by the instrument lighting. Obviously there is a short somewhere, but this circuit runs from one end of the car to the other, up behind the dash and back under the carpet to the courtesy light in back of the center console. There's a lot of places for something to be wrong.