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Fuses - Advice Please
Windscreen washers packed in at the weekend. Assumed it was due to low temp (-4) and not enough screenwash (was letting it run down before re-filling it with undiluted screenwash for the cold spell forecast).
However, they were still not working today (reservoir is now full of undiluted screenwash) and the temp went back up to a tropical +3 and I've had the FBH running, which is right next to the washer reservoir.
So I checked the fuse, which turned out to have blown
I've no spares of these wee fuses, so pinched one from F59 - Cubby chiller (that I don't have fitted). The washers are now working fine 8) 8) 8)
I'll get a spare fuse this week, however;
1. Does F59 control anything else?
2. Any ideas why the fuse may have blown? (Would it blow if the pump tried to pump frozen water?)
3. Why do LR assume we all have hands like gynaecologists to reach the bl**dy fuses?
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1st Dec 2008 7:02 pm
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Can't remember what fuse blew last year at same time but managed to fix without too much cussing. It was in the severe frosts that I saw that my heated nozzles were not heating, no ring around nozzles of slightly defrosted frost. Got them changed under warranty & now work well. Filled up on Friday with winter level screenwash but forgot to flush it through so will prob have popped same fuse.
1st Dec 2008 7:05 pm
zaphod
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DSL wrote:
winter level screenwash but forgot to flush it through
Exactly what I did
Ray, thanks for the tip, will see if I can get a selection of the little bu**ers. Sail Fast - Live Slow...
Am I missing something here?I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
1st Dec 2008 7:45 pm
zaphod
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ND, For flush, read prime!
Filled the reservoir with screenwash to the brim, but didn't run the washers to prime the system with the 100% mixture. They'd have been sitting with a mix of about 90-95% water to 5-10% screenwash.
Result was that when it hit -3 on Sat night, the reservoir would've been OK, but the pump & hoses would've been frozen.
Guess that's why the fuse went
First time in years I've been caught out on that one........... Sail Fast - Live Slow...
Ah, makes sense. I tend to run a 10-15% mix in the warmer months as the extra volatiles help shift the copious amounts of bugs you hit, so have never had this problem.I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
2nd Dec 2008 9:25 am
zaphod
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Agree, normally run with a, say 25% mix to move bugs, but 'cause it's colder here, the bugs all died off a few months ago.
It's been wet for the last 10 weeks or so, so last time I filled it, I didn't add any more mix, just water.
It was almost empty last week as I was running it down to fill it with 100% screenwash, which I did, but then forgot to prime the system......................Sail Fast - Live Slow...
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