Does anyone have the eletrical system schematics available?
My mini is in desperate need of attention and help!
I have no indicators, tail lights, or dash lights. The charge light is dull after the car is running for a couple of minutes, but when i use the brake or try to use the indicators it goes as bright as it can. The alternator is charging and the earth points under the bonnet have been checked.

Last question, where is the flasher can? Is it part of the instument cluster?

Any ideas?

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1978 Leyland Mini 998LS All Original *Sally*
2002 Mini Cooper *Coopa*

Check the fuses!
Dirty connections are common in minis and just wiggling the fuse around usually solves this problem... but clean up the terminals properly.

Try that and come back if it doesnt work....

Done that.
The weird thing is the car still runs with both fuses out.
I have cleaned them out, and I only have the 2 fuse box.

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1978 Leyland Mini 998LS All Original *Sally*
2002 Mini Cooper *Coopa*

OK.
Now unscrew the aluminum plate where the switches are, and the heater sliding thingoes.
There should be an inline fuse. Take this out and inspect for blown fuse..

Tell me if that works...

Tried that no good!

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1978 Leyland Mini 998LS All Original *Sally*
2002 Mini Cooper *Coopa*

problem solved! Thanks Will for your help, you were right, fuse box still had a dirty contact. Took all of the terminals off and used my dremel to buff them all clean and away she went. Put two new fuses in of course to cover my rear from this happening again. Amazing what you learn about a car from always fixing it! lol.

cheers everyone.

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1978 Leyland Mini 998LS All Original *Sally*
2002 Mini Cooper *Coopa*

BMC released their Mini range with dirty fusebox contacts. They did the same with production line dents, rust, and other annoying things.

Glad it works again.

Just had the exact same problem today.

G/f was driving behind me, when we got home she asked if i managed to not brake the entire way home....

Cleaned the fuse box as suggsted above Worked a treat!!! woohoo!!

Thanx for the solution people!!

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No more Minis!......For now.

Hmmm.........another of those "Mini things" that some of us know about and the rest of us find out about when our car goes wrong.

Talking about that sort of thing, did you know that you can change the clutch without taking out your engine IF the retaining bolt located at about the 7 o'clock position on the cover plate is removed and chucked away. In other words, if your engine is out at the moment, get rid of that bolt.

Sorry about hi-jacking the thread.

Hooroo

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Rod
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beef what were you going to do with the entire electrical system schematics of a mini? i can only think of one purpose...

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Ha I reckon burn it if the electricals play up again
Damn Minis and their stupid quirks

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1978 Leyland Mini 998LS All Original *Sally*
2002 Mini Cooper *Coopa*

Is the indicator meant to make that 'tick tick' noise when you indicate? Mine doesn't
Oh & my fuel gauge doesn't work, is it disconnected?

The indicator makes a tick tick noise but it's usualy very quiet... If you turn your indicator on, open the bonnet and stick your head under there you should hear it a bit better

the tick tick noise comes from a little silver coloured cylinder about the length of a thumb and the thickness of an inch
if you trace the wires around, you should be able to find it in a normal car, not sure about your mini
in my moke its under the bonnet,
in my matic its under the steering column

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the "blinker can" is under the dash will either be a silver round thing or plastick with 3 wires coming to it ......
the biggest sugestion i can make to anyone is go to super crap buy a heap of connectors a couple of the fuse box's a soldering iron and a crimping tool cut all the old conectors of and put new ones on and solder them to stop the wires coroding and use the new fuse boxes i'll take some photo's to show ya what i did i had a world of hassles with the lectrics in the replacement just rewired the lot no wockers everything works now
makka

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