Hi guys,

I wonder if one of you may be able to offer any assistance?

I have a 3 door Freelander 1 (2002) TD4.

Over the weekend I was fitting a new aerial and aerial mount; in order to get to this I had to remove the interior light; but (like a numpty) the light had not been switched off altough I had removed the bulb and I shorted the cicruit between one of the bulb terminals and one of the bolts holding the light into place (it sparked).

the light did not come on afterwards. I have checked the fusebox and if I am looking at the right fuse, then it's F14, a 10amp fuse for the interior light? - anyway, i checked it it was not burned out but i replaced it any way, and put a new bulb back in which fits nicely but the interior light does not work.

Does anyone have any ideas on what else I could check? thanks.

Could have burnt the wires or broke inside the solder. You will need to trace with a meter to find the problem.

Superglue a candle holder to the dashboard.

If live went to the ground wire, then it's possible it's damaged the control transistor in the CCU. The live is fed via the fuse box but the ground is applied by the CCU.

Thanks guys, as it turned out the fuse was fine but the wire had burned out.....(fuses are actually supposed to stop this from happening....never mind, its lesson learned

Fuse are only there to stop an overload to the gadget. Not the shorting way that causes a weak wire to fry by arcing.

saxavordian said:

Fuse are only there to stop an overload to the gadget. Not the shorting way that causes a weak wire to fry by arcing.

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Actually, the norm in electrical circuit design is that fuses are there to protect the wires. The 'gadget' ideally should have it's own fuse. - If not, the wire is the primary fuse specifier.
Bad design really, or poor quality fuse ... knowing LR, probably the first