Indicators And Heating Control Not Working

[Cracked up owner]

Hi, First time poster so go easy please.

Own a 2004 Galaxy ghia and have had lots of electrical problems over the past few months. Fuse box melted, alternater packed in and now for no reason the heating control and indicators have stopped working. I've had enough and once we get this fault sorted I'm getting rid of the car! Can anybody shed some light on this latest problem before I take it BACK to its 2nd home, the garage for another

[serviceforce]

check the melted fusebox again!

[Cracked up owner]

After what seems like a life time of working out what fuses work what I naged on the horn in frustration and bingo it didn't work! Checked for fuses and found two had blown!! Now all working...next time I'll be taking every bloody fuse out and checking them. PHEW!

[markleaver]

I'm having same problem, Fuse#3 (5AMP) just went for no reason, taking out Climate Control, indicators, speedo, trip & odometer and all related trip computer, fuel guage has become unstable, braking and accelerating cause massive changes in fuel levels.

Replaceing fuse just kept blowing, so went into Ford to get diagnostics - no fault found - but the mechanic took instrument panel out, cleaned contacts and replaced and it worked OK for 3 days, then blown again.

This could take some finding, and it is going in again to Ford when their autoelectrician gets back from holiday.

I think the wiring loom is chafing on something like a bulkhead, or maybe a wire has got pinched by previous greas monkey when fitting another part.

Car has done 190K+ and so far has been a great performer (2005 1.9TDi Ghia) but I fear this may take some finding, watch this space as this could be interesting

[dckuk]

Fuse 3 blowing? Having air conditioning problems as well?

 

Back in February of this year after a heavy rain, we experienced the same problem on the A1 in the dark; fuse 3 blown, and thus no fans on the climate control, no indicators, horn, etc. My mechanic found some wiring had melted behind the main fuse box, put that right, and everything was fine until Easter Sunday. Same issue: driving in a heavy rain (on the A1 again funnily enough), same failures. He couldn't find anything significantly wrong; replacing the fuse sorted the problem.

 

It got more frequent from there. Any rain more intense than a drizzle and it would blow. He couldn't find anything. Ford couldn't find anything. So we contemplated a failure in the GEM (and replacing the fuse box, a very $$$ (sorry: £££) proposition), so we began a "testing period" to isolate the location of the (apparent) water problem.

 

Today he fixed it. The problem had seemingly become less frequent, so we were content to continue changing the fuses about every other week, and took the vehicle in to get an air conditioning failure investigated and corrected.

 

Turns out that a (the?) air con pressure switch had not only failed, but come apart, and water had been getting to the electrical parts of it. Replacing the pressure switch not only restored the air conditioning (after a gas recharge), but let me drive through one of the heaviest rains I've been through in a long time, with out the electrics failing.

 

It's still doing well, and I'll update this if anything else crops up.