Not directly related to your quest, but many years back while taking part in discussions with the GoMoG web site`s moderator trying to find an issue with his +8`s EFI system, he ended up opening up the wiring loom to find a fuse wrapped within...????
Given that was a long time ago and my memory was never great and the ageing process is unlikely to have improved matters.... at the time I remembered coming across a similar situation of a fuse within the harness of a BL mini, that it seems at least back then if not still, there are possible issues that do not match imagined best practice even outside the MMC , who I suspect made use of partial wiring systems from the engine donors vehicles as EFI became more common. I have also read all be it some years back where wires changed colours via a loom joint on a vehicle wiring untouched from new, reported by a TM stalwart..
All second hand info, though not in the case of the Mini fuse.
Good luck in finding the source of your ..err...foible.. and thanks for sharing in such detail.
Hi Luddite
Yes a good point, I had thought there may be a fuse dangling in a wire somewhere behind the instrument panel. But when I looked up at the wiring behind the panel it looks like it was installed by the Malvern Wednesday afternoon woman's woops! I mean persons knitting group !!! so I am not going there unless I am really forced to by a serious fault.
Regards Tony
