Urgent help needed smoke smoke smoke

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:01 am

Thats the karma, 100% . shopping with your partner while your girlfriends having your baby. Shocking

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 10:18 am

Ted wrote:Thats the karma, 100% . shopping with your partner while your girlfriends having your baby. Shocking

Haha just realised what I wrote lol I meant she's already had the baby but baby is still in hospital in intensive care born 13 weeks early so we decided to get out the hospital for a wee while that's when it happened

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:56 pm

If something was smoking, then something electrical has overheated and melted quite possibly/probably wiring insulation.

The whole area needs stripping down for visual inspection to find out what it is that has melted and then you can start following that circuit back to work out what has caused it.

if you just carry on powering things up, all that will happen is you'll keep making the short/s worse and things will start blowing up.

Sorry, but there's no quick fix to this, either you (or an auto electrician) will need to spend time working through it.

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:46 pm

It was smoking for about 2 seconds max and it was the smallest amount of smoke ever kind of like when u strike a match I've been doing loads of research since it happened yesterday and I've taken all the plastics off around steering wheel etc and the tray underneath too had a good look at all the wiring and nothing looks melted at all but I'll have another look just to be safe all the fuses in engine bay and footwell are good

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:55 pm

Not smoke smoke smoke then.
Where did the smoke come out from exactly?

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:26 pm

wurlycorner wrote:Not smoke smoke smoke then.
Where did the smoke come out from exactly?

No not proper proper smoke mate I've just stripped it some more and removed ignition switch and one of the solders fell out of the switch it was coming from under the top plastic cover behind the steering wheel

mercutio · Post by **mercutio** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:39 pm

that could be it then

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:58 am

mercutio wrote:that could be it then

I have another switch now anyway so I'll try that out first and see what happens

GJMHONDA2012 · Post by **GJMHONDA2012** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:55 pm

It was the ignition switch after all thank god fitted new one and all is working as it should be happy days