So I lost the radiator fan. It wouldn’t spin, and my engine was getting quite hot.
Alright! No problem! Let’s have a look inside the engine’s fusebox.
But… there’s no fuse. No pins, either.
Well, but the sticker says it’s supposed to be here, bottom-left fuse.
The heck?
I removed and reinserted every fuse and relay I could find.
My radiator fan works now.
My windshield washer pump doesn’t
Neither do my rear window wiper.
Wiring looks normal for a renault of that era. Probably disturbed something when pulling fusebox out. A lot of the issues on the older renaults are poor connections however cant complain at 20+ years from new
What surprised me wasn’t the factory wiring, it’s how badly it’s been taken care of by previous owners/electricians.
It has loads of badly made wiring joints, with no electrical tape, little tape or simply bad quality tape peeling off of the wires, and the way that fusebox is “held” in place is beyond belief.
That screw holds it close to the dash, but all the load is being carried by the wiring harnesses.
I’m going to take the dash out next weekend to put that fusebox back where it belongs, and hopefully recover my rear wiper and the washer pump.
:determined:
The brazilian MOT (Inspeção/Vistoria Veicular) works on a “if you have it, it has to work” basis. So, if you don’t have fender-mounted blinkers, no problem. If you have them, they have to work.
If you don’t have rear wipers, no problem. If you have them, they have to work.
If you have a pickup truck with two spare tyres (I’ve seen some with one in either side of the truck’s bed), both of them have to be good to go.
Yeah, in theory I can take off the rear wiper, put a cap on and if anyone asks I don’t have one, but I still have to sort the water pump. I can’t take that out. I’m sure both problems are related, and I don’t think those will be hard to fix.
Yeah just cap the pump and unplug it haha.
They will be just as hard as any other wiring. In theory fairly easy as long as your logical about it.
Judging by the bodges you have found its probably on a shared earth or something.
when nothing works on a hacked up loom and its chase the wiring
