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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Must be a short in the circuitry of the
brake lights: wiring/brake light switch? The noise could have been
the sparking. May be a wire not protected by a grommet through the
bulkhead.<br>
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Kees Oudesluijs<br>
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Op 8-6-2017 om 17:30 schreef Simon Lachlan:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have received 2 emails
from my nephew. </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.</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.</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).</span></p>
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<p><span>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?).</span></p>
<p><span>Anyway after that incident everything went back to
normal:</span></p>
<p><span>-all the lights (turning indicators, panel lights, all
the instruments...) seem to work.</span></p>
<p><span>I have no idea what happened and I have not found
anything not working!”</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<p><span>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?”</p>
<p> </p>
<p>This is the Paris car, my being back in the UK with the
previous issues cured.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now:-</p>
<p>I am presuming that the two issues are related….the smoke and
the lack of brake lights.</p>
<p>I am discounting the heat reference.</p>
<p>I am puzzled by there being no brakes related wiring under
the dash yet that’s where the smoke came from.</p>
<p>The “funny noise” has me stumped.</p>
<p>The only place where braking circuitry and lighting circuitry
meets is in the 8-way flasher box. (Barring bare wires
shorting out).</p>
<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.</p>
<p>So, I (we) would like to make the longish journey <u>with</u>
brake lights and <u>without</u> smoke.</p>
<p>I have, I think, all the tools I need in Paris but I would
welcome ideas……..</p>
<p>Has anyone had this happen to their car?</p>
<p>What is the likely connection between the two seemingly
irreconcilables. (Smoke under the dash yet brake lights only
are affected).</p>
<p>Can anything to do with the brake light switch lead to smoke
under the dash? I can’t see how, myself.</p>
<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.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>Simon<span></span></p>
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