turboBA Member 28 Member For: 12y 15d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 07/03/13 03:24 PM Share Posted 07/03/13 03:24 PM (edited) Hello all, here with the worst of all, an electrics problem.. (hopefully simple)I was out driving the ba turbo with my mate tonight who yesterday picked up his new ba turbo as well, so up to kings park Perth and back was simple enough. All was fine until I went to leave, and my tail lights, and fog lights wont turn on.Brake lights work, headlights and high beams work, indicators work, just no tail lights, or fog lights.Naturally once home I got out the manual and pulled tail lights fuse, and its fine. Pulled fog lights fuse in engine box, that's fine too.If it were just tail, or fogs I would be thinking the relay, but for both of them, to stop working at the same time with different relays confuses me? or just unlucky?any ideas, or into the shop....?Thanks! Edited 07/03/13 03:26 PM by turboBA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboBA Member 28 Member For: 12y 15d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 08/03/13 12:38 AM Author Share Posted 08/03/13 12:38 AM Up this morning with multimeter to have a look, and they work again?after reading some other posts Its got me a bit worried thinking this may happen frequently. and wont be able to tell my tail lights are off..least they are going now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinr33 Donating Members 964 Member For: 13y 5m 3d Posted 08/03/13 01:15 AM Share Posted 08/03/13 01:15 AM (edited) Bad earth problem are sometimes difficult to track down I'd throw a new fuse in anyway and keep an eye on the situation, the reason I say a new fuse is you will kick yourself later if its just a dodgey solder in the fuse or something. Edited 08/03/13 01:16 AM by spinr33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboBA Member 28 Member For: 12y 15d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 08/03/13 01:27 AM Author Share Posted 08/03/13 01:27 AM Good idea, will do that now for both. hoping my warranty covers electrics like this.. I was giving it a bit of a thrash when it cut out, so maybe the corners and accelerating wiggled something.for now all is good thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook Donating Members 180 Member For: 16y 9m 15d Gender: Male Posted 08/03/13 08:58 PM Share Posted 08/03/13 08:58 PM My BF had the exact same issue. If I "jiggled" the harness that comes from the steering column it would fix it.Turned out to be a bad connection within a small single wire plug the came from the column harness and was located not too far from the fuse box. I believe a crook combination switch may also cause this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboBA Member 28 Member For: 12y 15d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 08/03/13 10:09 PM Author Share Posted 08/03/13 10:09 PM That doesn't sound too bad.I think I would rather they don't work at all, so it could be easier fixed, instead of it happening again some random night while hours from my house.at least ill know what to jiggle when it all turns pear shaped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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