broke the motor today

[solarman216]

Yep fried it, hooked up the tin tent ready for the off tomorrow morning, silly me decided to plug in the 12s plug, and switched the switch to car but nothing happened so put it back to van, pulled the outfit forward to straighten it up to set the new mirrors, turned the engine off but decided that I should reverse a little to reconnect the 240 lead to keep the fridge on over night to chill it down, but what is this? ignition on but no dash lights, engine turns but no start, checked all the fuses relays etc, nothing, so if I cannot sort it quickly in the morning looks like will be taking the Mrs motor, but not sure if they will accept a registration change as we have passes with my number on it, :doh, happy days Rick

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

Gutted for you mate, I hope you get it sorted out rick.

 

[jims-terrano]

Somekind of fuseable link maybe, im sure you know the things but they are like a master fuse. Look like a plastic plug often with a clear lid.

Good luck trying to sort it

 

[makeitfit]

IF you dont get time to sort it.Take the other plates with you and change them over just before you get there :naughty

 

[macabethiel]

That's my kind of luck but at least you found out the day before!

 

[Banshee]

Good luck Rick, always just before you go away as well :doh

Hopefully something simple

 

[don simon]

If anyone can fix it, Rick can.
Have a good trip.

 

[rustic]

You could try taking the V5 for each vehicle, as proof of ownership and same address, if all else fails.
Car breakdowns do happen.

I cannot imagine under what circumstances this failure could have happened. :nenau
Good luck.
Rustic

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Changing the switch only swaps the caravan from taking its 12v feed from the van battery to the 12s socket, e.g. the car battery, so if the caravan battery is low, you can use power from the car instead.

Connecting the 12s socket, connects all the high current bits up, so I would hazard a guess that you need to be looking for where the feed for the split charger etc is taken from. Most times they take it straight from the battery via an inline fuse.

Other than that, it sounds like a bad coincidence.

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[Lazy-Ferret]

Did you get away ok?

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[solarman216]

Well as you can all guess it was a very hectic day Friday, first thing I did was to try and phone the organizers to see id a change of motor would be a problem, engaged on every call so left a message then as time went on noticed they had tried to call me but as I had had a dental check up Thursday pm I had turned my ringer off :doh, so kept trying to ring them and finally got through, no a change of vehicle will not be a problem, so continued to load up Maggs car for the trip, mine still being dead, got away an hour later than planned at noon, then got flagged by my mate following that I have no stop lights, had a quick look but nothing obvious and I saw them working with my motor connected so on Thursday, so had to be either the new 13 way to 12n/12s lead or the Mrs car socket, but as my mate was following and he is now aware we decided to press on and fix it later, just as well as a good few miles from Dartford Tunnel we started to crawl, suffice to say arrived at the site at 4pm, got set up and partly sorted the stuff that had been hastily transfered from my motor went for a meal at the close by Toby, (will not go there again) came back and got pissed with me mate sat outside with a wood burner with an 8ft chimney, this morning realised I had forgotten the inverter and a few leads so it is only now that I have managed to charge the lappy and tablet and phone, and be able to get on line:clap Rick

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

Bet it felt worth it when you were sat round that wood burner with a drink :thumb2

 

[Blocky10]

Good on ya Rick. Others would have probably turned round and headed home. :clap

 

[solarman216]

you bet, nice and warm with a few scotches was good, Harlowmaveric if you are coming tomorrow, and anyone else for that matter, we are very easy to find, we are up the fairground end then head for the A10 bottom corner where the site stops you cannot miss the Mrs blue T2, my phone is now charged so if we are a wandering give us a call, 07860 225195, come join us for a drink, Rick

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

You back yet Rick?

 

[solarman216]

Well finally sorted it today, just shows how checking things while a little stressed (panicking that motor will not be running for depart tomorrow), not having good light and skipping tests can lead you up the wrong path, in the end it was simply a bad "meter" fuse, I;pulled all the fuses and visually checked them on the Thursday evening and all looked good, tried various other things but gave up, had a quick go on Friday morning even to the point of taking a wire from the + battery terminal and touched each fuse in turn with the ignition on, knowing all the fuses were good :doh only touched one end of each, had I done both ends of each fuse I would have found it but pressure was on to sort it quickly or change motors but was unsure about that as reg was registered at Enfield, anyway as it turned out that was not a problem, I still do not know how the fuse became bad, I can only assume it suffered stress crack, but why at just the time I connected 12s plug on caravan? the battery feed was not even connected, and the fuse looked perfect but when tested it was open, thank you to Ray for steering me in the right direction re the "meter" fuse as I was convinced it was something deeper, Rick

 

[solarman216]

You back yet Rick?

Yep back home and getting ready for the off on Friday, would have gone earlier but Mrs is working Thursday, Rick

 

[jims-terrano]

Just proves you are as human as the rest of us Rick, I was begining to doubt you were human but super human :thumbs

Glad you're sorted Rick.

 

[solarman216]

Just proves you are as human as the rest of us Rick, I was begining to doubt you were human but super human :thumbs

Glad you're sorted Rick.

I effd up and have to admit it, but in my defense, I no longer work well under pressure, a few years ago I reveled in it, but now I need time to think, as well as the fact the eyes do not work as well as they used to, Rick

 

[terranosaurusdoug]

I had a bad fuse that seemed ok in my caravan, it was on the 12s circuit, for the reverse light, it took me a while to pin point it. Could be something to look into :nenau