'90 244 blows right parking lamp fuse

Discussion in 'Volvo 240' started by James Sweet, Jul 29, 2009.

  1. James Sweet

    James Sweet Guest

    Friend of mine just picked up a '90 244 which overall is in great shape.
    One major problem I came across so far is that the fuse for the
    right-hand parking lamps and the instrument lights blows as soon as the
    parking lights are turned on. The weird thing is the first time I put a
    new fuse in, the lights worked, but then a few moments later it blew and
    installing a new fuse blows as soon as the switch is on.

    I plan to do some old fashioned troubleshooting this weekend to track
    down the problem but I'm curious if anyone else has come across this?
     
    James Sweet, Jul 29, 2009
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  2. James Sweet

    Andrea1717 Guest

    James Sweet ha scritto:
    Hi James.
    I hope that I have understand your problem because I had a similar on my
    240.
    The switch of the parking light is placed about under the shifter,
    directly on the gear box. So if you take away the plastic cover of the
    shifter, inside the cockpit, you can see two wires that cames from the
    parking light switch. The wires, in the gear box zone under the car, are
    subjected to the oil corrosion and hot action. So they lost the plastic
    insulation and they make a short circuit. So the fuse interrupts the
    circuit.
    You have to replace the two wires from the connectors, placed on the
    gear box, to the cockpit zone.
    My car is for europe market but I have american repair manual on CD and
    it's the same.

    By, Andrea
     
    Andrea1717, Jul 31, 2009
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  3. James Sweet

    James Sweet Guest


    I think we may have a language barrier here. The switch on the
    transmission is for the backup (reversing) lights. The lights I'm
    talking about are called parking lights in the US, they are the dim
    lights at each corner of the car, yellow in front and red in back that
    switch on with the headlights, or they can be turned on alone when one
    is parked in traffic to make the car more visible. For some reason on
    this year 240, the left and right side parking lights are fused
    separately, and the fuse the right-hand lights are on is also shared by
    the instrument lighting. Obviously there is a short somewhere, but this
    circuit runs from one end of the car to the other, up behind the dash
    and back under the carpet to the courtesy light in back of the center
    console. There's a lot of places for something to be wrong.
     
    James Sweet, Aug 1, 2009
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