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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I have received 2 emails from my nephew. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>He has an early Phase 2 BJ8 ie with the single light setup front and rear and the 8-way flasher relay box. Car is LHDrive.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The car’s wiring loom looks to be new and in excellent condition; it looks like it has been competently installed with all clips and grommets where one would hope to find them. The individual wires are emphatically not old & crumbly ie flakey insulation.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The car starts and runs well. It feels strong and is well behaved ie it coped with appalling traffic on a very hot day when we drove it out to Chantilly. It started first time when the engine was hot. In fact, the engine didn’t get hot; I reckon it has a recored(?) radiator. Certainly it has the 6-blade fan offered, I think, by the factory (like a 6 blade version of the normal 4. Something we don’t usually see or need in the UK).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>First email:- “It was very hot today and something weird happened: a bit of smoke came out from just above my knees (just below the dashboard along the steering wheel pole). the smoke was white and little (about as much as a match would make when it goes off, but white). Then a funny noise went on for 5 seconds (like a motor, a bit like the starter motor we can hear at the end when the engine doesn't want to start (do you see what I mean?).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Anyway after that incident everything went back to normal:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>-all the lights (turning indicators, panel lights, all the instruments...) seem to work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>I have no idea what happened and I have not found anything not working!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>A few days later, the second email:- “</span>Everything electrically seems to work. Except that when I push on the brake pedal nothing lights up at the back. Shouldn't it?”<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>This is the Paris car, my being back in the UK with the previous issues cured.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Now:-<o:p></o:p></p><p>I am presuming that the two issues are related….the smoke and the lack of brake lights.<o:p></o:p></p><p>I am discounting the heat reference.<o:p></o:p></p><p>I am puzzled by there being no brakes related wiring under the dash yet that’s where the smoke came from.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The “funny noise” has me stumped.<o:p></o:p></p><p>The only place where braking circuitry and lighting circuitry meets is in the 8-way flasher box. (Barring bare wires shorting out).<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>I am going over to Paris in about a month’s time in order to help get the car down to Roscoff and thence by ferry over to Plymouth in the UK and up to my house. I will then have it for a few weeks and will do various things to it……seatbelts being item one.<o:p></o:p></p><p>So, I (we) would like to make the longish journey <u>with</u> brake lights and <u>without</u> smoke.<o:p></o:p></p><p>I have, I think, all the tools I need in Paris but I would welcome ideas……..<o:p></o:p></p><p>Has anyone had this happen to their car?<o:p></o:p></p><p>What is the likely connection between the two seemingly irreconcilables. (Smoke under the dash yet brake lights only are affected).<o:p></o:p></p><p>Can anything to do with the brake light switch lead to smoke under the dash? I can’t see how, myself.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>I just want to be slightly prepared when I get there. I won’t have much time…..certainly not enough to get replacement parts over to Paris from the UK.<o:p></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Any thoughts?<o:p></o:p></p><p>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p>Simon<span style='font-family:Consolas'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>