Light switche and the mystery of the melted wires - Saab 900 Bulletin Board - Saabnet.com
The banner above is an advertisment - if it asks you to download software, please ignore.
Site News -
4/9 Saab Owners' Convention Day Pass Raffle |
3/26 M Car Covers (by State of Nine)
[General |
Members |
C900 |
9000 |
NG900 & OG93 |
93 |
95 |
NG95 |
99 |
Sonett |
Vintage Models |
Clubs |
Other Cars |
FAQs |
Gifts |
Member Photo Galleries |
Member Directory |
Classifieds |
Manuals |
*Buddy Registry |
*Mileage Registry |
Polls |
What's New |
Raffle |
Photo of the Month |
Sponsors]
[Main C900 Bulletin Board | BBFAQ |
Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ]
Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos
Light switche and the mystery of the melted wires
Posted by James Douglas (more from James Douglas) on Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:41:18
Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup
My 91 automatic 900s just decided to throw me a challenge. As I parked the car, it smoked and burned up a few wires in the cabin. I was unable to turn the car off with the key and had to pull the fuel pump fuse to stop the car. Before I splice in new wire from a spare harness I want to figure out what was the cause of the meltdown.
I pulled the dashboard apart and found that the "light switch", located at the upper left side of the dash, had a few melted wires. It was the green/white, and the red/green that cooked. Further down the run of wire, I see where the fog light plug wires connect, and all of the wires off of the fog light plug, have melted bare. It seemed to get so hot, it melted the orange plastic plug itself.
From here, as you move towards the main bundle of wire, the wires appear less damaged. I inspected the wires and only find a brown/white wire shows any sign of melting. It passes through a white honey comb shaped plug behind two black relays and travels down the main wire harness. (down past the main air vent)towards the shifting column where the melting stops. Here it splits off and goes to the window switches.
At this point it connects to a single plug and stops at a bare end. I think it supposed to connect to a light on the auto shifter, the light that illuminates the shifter numbers. I could see it breaking off from the shifter and grounding on the aluminium shifting housing.
It appears more likely that the fog light switch fell apart and grounded a lead and melted the whole show. Has this happened to anyone else?
posted by 72.35.96...
Posts in this Thread:
Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup
Post a Followup
No Site Registration is Required to Post - Site Membership is optional (Member Features List), but helps to keep the site online
for all Saabers. If the site helps you, please consider helping the site by becoming a member.
StateOfNine.com
|
SaabClub.com
|
Jak Stoll Performance
|
M Car Covers
|
Ad Available
|
Random Saabnet.com Member Gallery Photos (Click Image)
This is a moderated bulletin board - Posting is a privilege, not a right.
Unsolicited commercial postings are not allowed (no spam). Please, no For Sale or Wanted postings, SERIOUSLY.
Classifieds are to be listed in The Saab Network Classifieds pages.
This is a problem solving forum for over 250,000 Saab owners, so expect to see
problems discussed here even though our cars are generally very reliable. This is not an anything goes
type of forum. Saabnet.com has been a moderated forum since 1988. For usage guidelines, see the
Saabnet.com Mission and Purpose Page. Please remember that you are
not anonymous. Site Contact | Site Donations | Other Sites by SP -
Poverty2Prosperity.org | Run Club Menlo Park | ScreenBot
Site Members do not see red text instructions, bottom of the page anchor ads, or box ads.
Click here to see all
the Site Membership Benefits!