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(Message started by: locky on Sep 5^th, 2005, 9:02pm)

Title: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by locky on Sep 5^th, 2005, 9:02pm

It had came to my attention recently, than when opening the boot the nearside running light mounted on the bootlid light strip, went off, and came back on again when the boot was closed.

On further investigation, the cause of the fault had been the Platic cable cover, digging into the wires when the boot is closed.

As you can see from the pictures, it had broke almost every wire in that section of the loom, so a partial rewire had to be done.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y209/LOCKY2306/Picture010101.jpg

I have found that, if you pull down the last bit of the cover, it stops digging into the wires. So if you own a saloon CHECK THIS NOW!!

Title: Re: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by locky on Sep 5^th, 2005, 9:04pm

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y209/LOCKY2306/Picture055.jpg

Title: Re: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by locky on Sep 5^th, 2005, 9:08pm

Sorry about the size and quality of the first picture, but you get the idea ;)

Title: Re: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by Eric_R on Sep 5^th, 2005, 11:03pm

Locky,
Thanks for that - your advice added to http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/faultfinds

Thanks :D

Title: Re: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by David_South_West on Sep 7^th, 2005, 8:09pm

Well done Locky..checked mine and found just one wire damaged.This proves what this site is all about ...find a fault..fix it and help everyone else as well.

Title: Re: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by John on Sep 9^th, 2005, 4:44pm

been to look at mine. when I first obtained my "R" reg 60,000 miles was buged by the underneath of the metal parcel shelf, being all nasty grey primer. I should have throught it would have been painted. But everyone said their cars where the same. I throught that there must be a cover trim that was missing, but everyone says, no there is no trim. Yes, I know you can't see it, well you can if you bend down, but considering the price of the car new you would have throught that they would have blown some paint over while spraying the car.
Anyway, my wires where fine, all trightly buched together like they should be. BUT that stickey tape, like insulation tape had unraveled in the same area as on the photos. So I made good this with some of the same the sticky cloth sort of stuff, not the plastic insulation tape.
Then I went to the newer car and it perfect, just like the day it left the factory.
The Question now comes, are people running around without the long plastic sleeve that covers the coil springs and what about the square black plastic cover that fits around the metal hinge.
and is your cable secured all the way to the boot hinge or left loose in places.
Anyway i going to see if I can put some rubber hose over mine, split it longways to get it on then tape over to keep closed. The question is will it flex or bend enought. Still won't know till I try.

Title: Re: WIRING PROBLEM - SALOON
Post by Octavian_P on Sep 22^nd, 2005, 11:13pm

I also had a "small" problem, a few wires had their insulation cut off, luckly i saw this here before something bad could had happened.