Very poor electrical system from factory.

[AlleyNiki]

Just for a hoot I looked for the fuse that comes straight off the ignition.

The book seems to think that it's fuse 'A', but removal of this fuse caused no change or effect at all. It seems to be fuse 'B' in my car. However, putting 12 volts onto this fuse from the battery had little to no effect, all the dash lights pulsed on and off just the same with the indicator running..

Only difference was that when I tried to turn the engine off it kept running! 

Guess I either had the wrong fuse, or the contacts beneath the fuse box need cleaning up, or it's just not a 12v+ issue?

[KAL SPL]

Fuse B is the 1 I used , Basically you need to double that wire up so it comes back out from that connector while still on the relay box , that goes 87 and 85 on the relay , fused 12V to 30 and 86 to ground.
It should make a noticable difference.

Fuse A is the accesories fuse so that would not have made any difference.

What side of the fuse did you put power to ?
Mines to the side closest to the outside of the car.

[AlleyNiki]

What side of the fuse did you put power to ?
Mines to the side closest to the outside of the car.

The same. Perhaps the contact underneath needs to be cleaned up. If I had the time and patience I'd go cleaning ALL the bloody contacts!

[KAL SPL]

The first major step to a complete new wiring harness for the front half of the car.

[eben80]

I've started investigating the issues on my 650cc and found them to be lights that go off if wipers are used, wipers going slower when brake lights are on etc. etc. I then started labelling the wires up front at the fuse-box to fit relay based power supply for switched circuits etc.... Before I bought the parts I cleaned up the ground connections and re-crimped the charging connection to the genny.  This improved things so much that I'm now going to hold fire on the "improvements" until the issues maybe re-occur.

Suffice to say that these little cars have a very "special" wiring layout. Haynes' diagrams doesn't make it any easier to trace either 

[KAL SPL]

Thank me later



and full size version

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x127/KAL_SPL/IMG_0312.jpg

[eben80]

Thanks, That does look more straightforward than matching up numbers while translating colours as in Haynes..... 

[124cso]

I actually found the Haynes ones better / more helpful if you are actually trying to track a wire to find a fault/ look for damage.

[bis13]

cheers for the diagram you can never have too much information! unless its about the parents sex life that is......

[fiatmaluch126]

  lol bis13