Spanky-spangler
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How do you remove the glovebox on a Freelander 2? I blew a fuse earlier fitting led bulbs to interior lights and cannot work out how to remove the glovebox.
Spanky-spangler
Member
Yes, according to google, the fusebox is behind it.
Spanky-spangler
Member
What arms?
I have no idea about the FL BTW, but sounds like you need to get a manual.
Just done a quick search and apparently you need to look through an access hatch in the glove box to see it
Or shove a small child in there with small hands.
J
Are there bits at the side when you open the glove box?
Just done a quick search and apparently you need to look through an access hatch in the glove box to see it
Or shove a small child in there with small hands.J
Spanky-spangler
Member
Ok, goes from bad to worse. Wiggled the glovebox out, broke a plastic clip which it attaches to the inner dashboard and after all that-no fusebox.
Problem for me, is im recovering from a stroke and my hands do not do what i want them to. Just fed up with all this.
Problem for me, is im recovering from a stroke and my hands do not do what i want them to. Just fed up with all this.
Just noticed this.
Do you actually have a FL2? what year?
Calm down have a break, hoping the proper FL guys will come to help @Nodge ?
J
Do you actually have a FL2? what year?
Calm down have a break, hoping the proper FL guys will come to help @Nodge ?
J
Spanky-spangler
Member
Yes, a 2012 Freelander 2
Bounty
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So I blew a fuse doing mine recently, you may not need to remove the glovebox.
Get down into the passenger footwell, there's a cover at the back under there. You should be able to push two tabs in and rotate the panel out, unveiling some of the fusebox and the fusebox diagram on the back
If not we'll come back and do glovebox destructions
After a more thorough read
Oh bugger it's off already
Well supposedly you're looking for a 7.5A fuse in F17 but it still ought to be under there somewhere
Get down into the passenger footwell, there's a cover at the back under there. You should be able to push two tabs in and rotate the panel out, unveiling some of the fusebox and the fusebox diagram on the back
If not we'll come back and do glovebox destructions
After a more thorough read
Oh bugger it's off already
Well supposedly you're looking for a 7.5A fuse in F17 but it still ought to be under there somewhere
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Nodge68
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The fuse box is below the glove box. No need to remove the glove box at all, as you just put your head where passenger feat go.
Be careful with LEDs, as they have been known to cause issues with the MOSFETs in the CJB, which means a replacement job at huge expense.
Spanky-spangler
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Arctic2
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Most likely a gremlin if you have not touched anything else, disconnect the battery for 30mins, failing that you need to get some diagnostics on it.
Nodge68
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Make sure the battery is fully charged. The battery will die in about 15 minutes of playing about, as these vehicles use huge amounts of power, just by messing around inside.
Also make sure all the electrical connections at the fuse are sound.
To be honest, it's best not to mess with these vehicles at all. The electronics are far to easy to damage, even by changing bulbs. The system was designed for proper incandescent bulbs, so it's best to leave them as such. It's not like the lights are poor anyway. It if ain't broken, don't try to fix it.
Spanky-spangler
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Just thought i'd post an update with my Freelander 2.
I fixed it yesterday but involved replacing every single fuse in the car-whether it needed it or not. Did you know Freelander 2's have three fuse boxes?
I just yanked the fuses out, looked at the rating and replaced with fresh one. It took another 5 minutes for the system to sort its self out but the engine was running atleast. Has been a crappy learning curve.
Admin-you might want to put a sticky on your forum to warn others from installing led lighting into a vehicle which wasn't designed for it.
I fixed it yesterday but involved replacing every single fuse in the car-whether it needed it or not. Did you know Freelander 2's have three fuse boxes?
I just yanked the fuses out, looked at the rating and replaced with fresh one. It took another 5 minutes for the system to sort its self out but the engine was running atleast. Has been a crappy learning curve.
Admin-you might want to put a sticky on your forum to warn others from installing led lighting into a vehicle which wasn't designed for it.
Why not just run a continuity check with an multimeter on them? You can check a whole board in seconds, without removing anything.
Did you find a blown one anywhere, once removed?
Spanky-spangler
Member
To be honest, i'd already plugged in a scanner into the obd and that came up with nothing so just thought i'd replace all the fuses. Off the top of my head, the ones which were visibly blown and not working were the horn and interior lights.
I dont posses a multimeter which would have been the problem.
GrumpyGel
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The longer you can get through life without one, the better and less stressful your life will be.
For sure, they are great little devices that tell you stuff only they can and save you many hours checking shit.
But, when ever I use one, which is actually reasonably often, I age a couple of months with stress and anger.
Which fecking icon do I want to turn the fecking dial to? Which fecking hole do I plug the red wire into? Which fecking scale do I want this fecking thing set to? Why the feck does it say feckin 0.0? Why won't it do what I want it to? Now its just spewing out lots of different random fecking numbers. PLEASE just tell me what I'm wanting to know! So its fuse has blown - who the feck did that? I've changed the fuse, still says 0.0. You fecking little fecking feck thing.
Youtube it is.... right. OK so that took 2.6 seconds to set it up and find the number.
I can relate to that!
