electrical-due to steam washing

[glastry]

f*** that is right
i was going to buy a new van anyway.
you just have to realize fellas,if the yanks had not intefered this place
would have made a good parking lot for volkswagen!!!!

what they would have done with the rest ---well i dunno

[glastry]

i take it back, rant is now finished

nighthawk is the MAN!!!!

RELAY REPLACED--SMALL CONTRIBUTION TO MR FORD

HAPPINESS REIGNS

OH WHAT A WONDERFUL VAN

THANKS ALL ADVICE APPRECIATED

[glastry]

did not hope to continue this "thread"

radio and clock and interior lights now blowing fuses.
HELP

FOR an electrical dunce the vans gone mad!!!!

i think i have a 'last of the old series transits'
with a series of electrical faults

does anybody know a solution?

any help appreciated

[Nighthawk]

Glad to hear that you sorted the main bits and bobs

Coud do with a little more details now on this fault.

What model of radio?

how many interior lights, including in the rear?

Could you also check if your cigar lighter is on the same fuse, as quite often phone chargers bend the contacts inside the socket and cause this type of fault.

also, if you flick the interior light out of the headlining and pull the plug off....does it blow a fuse with the radio on?

or if it's easier, disconnect the radio and check?

we need to pin down which side of the circuit is causing the concern.

[glastry]

radio is 3000 traffic

1 number interior light in rear

cigar lighter is working

have disconnected front interior light and have just blown another fuse

[stevew]

I've been reading this thread with interest but havn't had anything to contribute over Nighthawk's encyclopedic knowledge
This sounds weird. Do you have anything non-standard in your van? I'm thinking specifially of a phone kit, sat-nav or an alarm?
Steve

[glastry]

hi thanks for the interest
the original owner did say that there was an alarm wired over the existing
ford alarm- (might as well have said that it spoke german!!)

[stevew]

Aha!
I take it that you don't use this after market alarm then?
If it was me I would either repair it (if it's broken) and start using it or remove it completely. If it's just sat there conected to the electrics there's no telling what it might do! At least if you're using it regularly you know when it stops working.
Depending on how competent the original installer was the alarm could easily be the source of your trouble.
Steve

EDIT: Of course it could still just be a dodgy radio! Has the radio ever given trouble?

[madmark]

maybe the only way is to start disconecting things and see if this stops it! i had the same with my autobox i had cleened under the van with a steam cleener and after a short wile i lost top gear! then all of a suden it came back ! i also had a van once that was another auto if you washed it down it wouldnt get any gears for around an hour afterwards! these fords do try our tempers sometimes thas for shure!