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Jake:
Another one of 'those' 5 min jobs that turns into the biggest nightmare ever!!
Hope you get it sorted out soon Andy
 :?

Bulli:
Andy, were you running the wire as a trigger for a relay? Check around carefully as it is going to ground somewhere...under dash/bonnet fire isnt worth risking.

Andy.:
Right the wire which has seemed to of melted comes from the dash rear fog light and is black coloured. It appears to come from the connection for the little orange bulb on the back of the push switch.

Also there has been fitted two extra wires for the additional switches in the fuse panel for the extra lights, persumably for the switch lights for these.

I got some other switches which I wanted to put in instead of the ones there and thought it would be a simple case of just swapping the connections over  :?:

The smoke came from under the steering shroud when I was trying to get the two front spots to work, after removing all the shroud and trying again all the lights except the two front spots still worked until I tried the indicators which just kept popping the fuse. The hazzard button worked OK and when I lock the Discovery the indicators work along with the alarm.

So I thought it was the stalk which had gone, proceeded to dismantle this which I don't think you are supposed todo, anyway it's now it pieces awaiting a new one.

So can't really check anything else until I can put my lights back on.

Anyone know of any dismantlers which are fairly local to me (Leeds) which I can try  :?:

datalas:

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--- Quote from: "muddyweb" ---The stalks on a 200 Disco are very similar to a lot of the Austin vehicles of the time (due to the fact that they were nicked from the parts bin to make the vehicle)

Have a look at Maestro / Montego / Metro / Freight Rover stalks... the dismantlers will be full of them.
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I know for a fact it's identical to the Metro stalk - can't say for sure about the others tho.
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For what it's worth the 200 Series is basically a montego that's put on weight, at least in terms of the interior.  Door handles (on the insides) switches on the doors, indicator stalks, central locking relays etc are all identicle.  This also applies to the later Austin Metros and I believe some of the earlier Rover Metros, the Maestro and probably some of the Freight rovers as Tim says.  There is also a chance that some of the Sherpas (a freight rover by an different name) parts are the same.

The Rover 100 (the rebadged metro) and Rovers of the similar age share the parts bin with the 300 series although by this time some parts were starting to be changed (the 200 series is a montego that's put on weight)

And then (some) people complain because the D3 looks like a volvo inside, better than a granny runaround :)

Bush Tucker Man:

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Anyone know of any dismantlers which are fairly local to me (Leeds) which I can try  :?:
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Not too sure about your end of Leeds, but there's there's 2 next to each other on Thorpe Lane & McGregors up at The Falls in East Ardsley.


What about PRB in Wortley, or isn't there a scrappers next to Simmonites??

PRB phone-number is; 01132 796093

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