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Volvo help, please....
« on: 09 August 2007, 23:33:36 »
I am currently in Italy driving a borrowed Volvo 850, not sure about the age but it looks like early nineties so probably around 15 years old, the car is great but has no dashboard illumination and the courtesy lights aren't working either. So it must be a fuse - anyone has/had one of these beasts by any chance and knows where the fuse box is...?  
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Re: Volvo help, please....
« Reply #1 on: 09 August 2007, 23:36:53 »
you could try here http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/

Good Luck, Pat
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« Reply #2 on: 09 August 2007, 23:49:58 »
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you could try here http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/

Good Luck, Pat

Thanks, I'll have a go at it....  :y
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Re: Volvo help, please....
« Reply #3 on: 09 August 2007, 23:53:01 »
Ive just posted on the Volvo forum for help Markjay.. :y
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« Reply #4 on: 09 August 2007, 23:55:47 »
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Ive just posted on the Volvo forum for help Markjay.. :y

Much appreciated, 'Disco',  :y I am on modem dial-up here  :( so it would have taken me 20 minutes just to register...   ;D
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Re: Volvo help, please....
« Reply #5 on: 09 August 2007, 23:57:41 »
No problem Markjay, If i get an answer before going to bed i shall relay the info via here.. :y
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Re: Volvo help, please....
« Reply #6 on: 10 August 2007, 09:44:37 »
I've got a feeling a load of the electrical gubbins is in the back of the car, along with the battery. Definately some sort of fuse box back there, from memory.

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Re: Volvo help, please....
« Reply #7 on: 10 August 2007, 11:10:56 »
Fuses are in the engine bay on a 850
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« Reply #8 on: 10 August 2007, 18:28:07 »
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Fuses are in the engine bay on a 850

Well, you seem to be our fuse expert...... ;)
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« Reply #9 on: 10 August 2007, 23:00:24 »
Success  :y

(...in finding the fusebox, not in curing the problem...)  :(



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Re: Volvo help, please....
« Reply #10 on: 10 August 2007, 23:13:38 »
I take it all back.
Could have sworn I'd seen one in the back. (ahh, may have been a V70 estate thinking about it)

Anyway, I hope Volvo make better scuttle drains than VX :o

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« Reply #11 on: 10 August 2007, 23:39:04 »
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I take it all back.
Could have sworn I'd seen one in the back. (ahh, may have been a V70 estate thinking about it)

Anyway, I hope Volvo make better scuttle drains than VX :o

Kevin

Possibly not...  :(  The fuse is fine (it's fuse 35 and it's 10A in case you were wondering), swapping it around with another good fuse seems to resolve the problem, so i am thinking of bad contact... and considering the location of the fuse box in the scuttle and the pine tree rubbish all around it, the base of the fusebox is probably corroded...  I am tempted to take it out and give it a permanenet fix but keep reminding myself that (a) I am on holiday and (b) it is not even my car!

Anyway the dashboard illumination is working (for now) so thanks to all and especially to Spongebob.

The other problem is that courtesy lights are not working, but unlike my initial thought this is not a fuse problem, instead the switch in the roof console is physically broken so new roof console is needed. Does anyone know of any good Volvo scrappies in Italy? Nooooo! I'm on holiday!!!!



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« Reply #12 on: 10 August 2007, 23:42:40 »
That's the bit I need:

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« Reply #13 on: 10 August 2007, 23:50:51 »
Buy one of them lights that plug in the cigar lighter and enjoy your stay in Italy.. :y
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