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Monty Hay

Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #1

Hi can anyone help us please?
We have a Discovery 2 and since we towed our caravan back from holiday, all of the dashboard lights and rear drivers side lights have stopped working we have changed the all the rear bulbs? However still no joy, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
Matthew

 

Trench Rat

Well-Known Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #2

Post in the discovery section. This is the introduction section.

 

freelance

Well-Known Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #3

Have you looked at fuses, is your towing socket in good health?

 

Iancorky

Well-Known Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #4

faulty fuse box or IDM, possibly
Have you had any water getting in?

 

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Monty Hay

Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #5

Trench Rat said:

Post in the discovery section. This is the introduction section.

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Ok thanks, sorry. Still finding our way around site.

 

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Monty Hay

Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #6

Iancorky said:

faulty fuse box or IDM, possibly
Have you had any water getting in?

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Hi there
No all water tight, this is first problem we have had like this, we wondered if putting the electrical connector from the caravan to the cars tow bar incorrectly could be the cause?

 

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Monty Hay

Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #7

freelance said:

Have you looked at fuses, is your towing socket in good health?

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Hi there
We have looked at fuses, but unsure of which fuse services the dashboard lights! (Sorry we are certainly not mechanically minded)!

 

Hippo

Lord Hippo

• Aug 12, 2018

• #8

Welcome to the forum

 

Iancorky

Well-Known Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #9

Monty Hay said:

Hi there
No all water tight, this is first problem we have had like this, we wondered if putting the electrical connector from the caravan to the cars tow bar incorrectly could be the cause?

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Ooops, never read your post, just the title.
Looks like fuse 11 (10 amp) does the LH side and tail lights and trailer socket and
fuse 33 (10 amp) does the RH side

Fuses under the steering wheel

 

Iancorky

Well-Known Member

• Aug 12, 2018

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mattmaclaren

Active Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #11

When hooking up to a caravan make sure the power is off in the caravan, you have a switch that says car/van and you can also place the switch in the middle, it wants to be in the middle, then when hooking electrics to car make sure the car is switched off and don’t leave ignition on, hook it up and start the car and then go to the caravan and flick the switch to car. Otherwise it is very likely that you have blown quite a few fuses like what others have suggested.

 

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Monty Hay

Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #12

Iancorky said:

Ooops, never read your post, just the title.
Looks like fuse 11 (10 amp) does the LH side and tail lights and trailer socket and
fuse 33 (10 amp) does the RH side

Fuses under the steering wheel

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Hi there
Thanks for taking the time, really kind. Would that fuse cater for the dashboard lights as well do you think?

 

Mick Guilbert

Well-Known Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #13

The fuse diagram posted above will help you, fuse 27 does instruments. Good luck

 

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Monty Hay

Member

• Aug 12, 2018

• #14

Hi Guys
Thanks everyone for your help, we replaced dash fuse but nothing happened so we replaced the RH side fuse, and both the dash lights and RH side rear lights now work???!! So both fuses had to be replaced for the dash lights to work.

Brilliant, thanks again!

Matthew