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Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« on: 09 April 2013, 07:39:30 pm »
 :****:  Had the shite panic of my life tonight... managed to get off work on time & though I would go out & play, dumped noddy  car in drive chucked on some old clothes and went out for a blast in Landy. Jumped in threw my phone & keys in the dash and set off, got no more than 1/2 mile and the dash tray suddenly lit up like xmas sparks n shite all over and I thought WTF?? cab filled with smoke, managed to pull up and dived in to recover my phone and keys from where the sparks n smoke was emminating from only to burn my fingers on the red hot key & ring ( melted) threw them on the seat and it melted...

Pulled up the wired from the tray to find the offending culprit.. bare wires!  a red one (fused as per pic but did not blow), connected to an old braided one going up into speedo cluster I think then joined again dizzapearing through bulkhead as per pics...

So all in all a bit of a lame night out...  but hey a job for the weekend, rave out the wires to see the damage and splice in some new cables and insulate well!





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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #1 on: 09 April 2013, 07:56:46 pm »
dont forget to refill the smoke for next time
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #2 on: 09 April 2013, 08:07:47 pm »
hmm where do you buy cans of lucas smoke then  :popcorn:
have fun hope its not to bad
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #3 on: 09 April 2013, 08:10:17 pm »
Only real 'lasting damage' is to my bleeding house key which was burnt at the end too!!... went home, couldnt get in so had to wait for our lass to come in...
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #4 on: 10 April 2013, 08:11:15 am »
Should be a plastic tray in there over those were. Betting its heater blower or wipers that's affected.
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #5 on: 10 April 2013, 08:23:54 am »
Could've been a lot worse! Do you carry a fire extinguisher in your landy?
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« Reply #6 on: 10 April 2013, 09:22:42 am »
A proper brown trouser moment :eek: Yup, tis a reminder for me to get an extinguisher too!
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« Reply #7 on: 10 April 2013, 11:56:04 am »
Similar thing happened to me a while back as I got back from Devon.The last 60 odd miles I had everything switched on and as I went to switch off on the drive the key wouldn't turn off and was a bit warm.Found out the nylon bit in the switch had melted from the current draw and the little plate that does the switching was going wherever it wanted.Didn't burn out anything but was getting there.The fuse box was melting.

I rebuilt the barrel holder with chemical metal,added loads of relays,and checked that the fire extinguisher has a chance of working.It's the nice 2a switch with the lighting switch incorporated that costs at least 50 squid to replace so I had to fix it.

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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #8 on: 10 April 2013, 04:04:38 pm »
When I got my 109 i took about 30' of unneeded wire out of the dash most of it unfused live. Didn't get any smoke escape during my ownership but there was 1 section of wire welded  to the speedo casing.

Reconnected the original loom and got back such niceties as dash lights, temp & fuel gauges.

I've since added a few relays, mini mcbs battery disconnect etc. just for piece of mind.
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #9 on: 10 April 2013, 07:54:03 pm »
I would the wires have been cut & joined at some point when the bulkhead was repaired...  I gathered there should be a full trim bit of dash over the wires  :****: so I suppose maybe years of keys n shite being chucked in there will have chafed the wires through...  lol re the fire extinguisher  yes I saw one in the back when I got home but in the panic didnt realise it was there!!  theyy do make a mess though!!

 *help*  Anyone got a spare full dash wire cover trim thingy to flog me then ?????
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #10 on: 10 April 2013, 08:27:14 pm »
Possibly shall check tomorrow
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #11 on: 10 April 2013, 11:45:19 pm »
Can't overly see from the pic, where you are I the dash. I think I have the bit you are missing though
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Re: Burnt fingers, melted keys & melted wires.......
« Reply #12 on: 12 April 2013, 11:04:33 am »
west4x4 & 5988....  thanks please PM me if you have with payment details... :thumbs:
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« Reply #13 on: 12 April 2013, 11:25:58 am »
Quote from: 5988
Can't overly see from the pic, where you are I the dash

If you mean the 100m one away from the motor, I think he was first.

Close call :eek:
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