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Steve - I, too, had a similar experience as Rob with my '83 245 GLT. You wouldn't imagine the places that car chose to stop with my wife or I for a few years. I carried several spare fuses, taped them to the fuse block cover with directions to my wife on where to put them in case of this problem. It was getting as frequent as a couple times a week. Smoked wires sometimes, too. When the mother-in-law weighed in this problem, I couldn't take the "heat" any more and so I sought professional assistance. Fixed it by cleaning the fuse block contacts - and I'm worry free.
Here's a stranger twist. Shortly after the fix, the car begins to run rough and then a guy pulls up along side me on my way to work one dark morning. Tells me my brake lights don't work. I ask myself, both? Hmm, fuse? Well, it was a wet and rainy day. That evening, I finally take time to check fuses, pull off the cover and with a flashlight begin to inspect fuses. Then I notice all these water drops near the bottom!! Sop up the moisture, no blown fuses, start back on my way, lookin' good now. Then it comes to me. A few years back I had the windshield replaced. They never really got the gasket ends to mate up on the driver side, so I had a gap. Moisture had been leaking through the gap and down to the fuse block, corroding connections! Patched up the gap with electrical tape and I have yet to experience another episode.
Listen to Rob.
Michael ('83 245 GLT, '83 240 DL, '92 240 DL, '90 760 GLT)
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