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Mine are like that Jon, Vanny seems to think theres a relay above the glovebox, when mine was out I only found a brown connector at the righthand side on the top of the aperture, from memory there were four wires green/brown, please let me know whether I am on the right track (My interior lights do switch on manually)
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And if you have the connector (which i seem to think ALL bx Mk2's have) then you simply plug in one of the units Ken has pictured!
You have to take the glove box completely out and on most models its held inplace by two t5 headed screws. However my understanding of this relay is that its more like a giant capacitor hance the lights fade after x seconds of closing the door without locking, its all a bit mad, but i guess if it failed and took out the lights then it much have short circuited?
the only common points on the interior lighting are the fuse and the earth point which is right next to the base of the aerial. The door switches ground out and are linked together for the doors open lighting position.
Stuart, i think i have a spare magic box if you want to try it out one day?
You have to take the glove box completely out and on most models its held inplace by two t5 headed screws. However my understanding of this relay is that its more like a giant capacitor hance the lights fade after x seconds of closing the door without locking, its all a bit mad, but i guess if it failed and took out the lights then it much have short circuited?
the only common points on the interior lighting are the fuse and the earth point which is right next to the base of the aerial. The door switches ground out and are linked together for the doors open lighting position.
Stuart, i think i have a spare magic box if you want to try it out one day?
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Do the diesels have a light delay unit? My DTR Turbo (late 89) doesn't seem to have one (shame) but my 16 valve (same age) does. - Of course its possible that someone has removed it before I got the car but the wiring does look untampered with although I've never inspected round the glovebox in detail.
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Hmmm theres nowt like that behind my glovebox, perhaps thats why the hooligan has manually switched interior lights, If there is a spare one in Vannys empoium he might put it to one side until we can swap it for some piece of treasure from the bX cave
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Yes Tom.I must have sent a good few of these to the scrapper in my time, along with le mans interiors, good gloveboxes, rear cylinders, ride height valves, wings, doors, calipers, struts, heater matrices, the list goes on, sdo just what is the pile of stuff in the garage? ah yes , steering racks, Hp pumps, calipers, struts, gearboxes, FDVs etc etc.
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