Thread: ELECTRICAL FIRES

Had a mildly alarming situation last night. Heading home from French Pass chasing kingis, coming into Okiwi bay a couple of warning lights flashed up on the dash. Stopped and had a look and all seemed OK as far as I could tell and a quick Google indicated maybe voltage regulator playing up, so carried on as didn't seem to have a lot of other options. Flicked the fan blower on heading up the hill and it popped and didn't run, shortly after a heap of electrical smoke pours out of the dash under the passenger side. Shut it off and pulled the glove box out of the dash, found a heap of melted wires in the loom and the issue seemed to be the fan blower relay - no further heat and smoke once I pulled that. Carried on, no further issues. A few things in the dash not working.

Now I'm thinking I probably need to replace the whole dash loom with a 2nd hand loom rather than try repair the cooked wires, replace fan blower relay and fan blower, and voltage regulator.

Thoughts ? Would this be unusual as a result of a dud voltage regulator? LN106 Hilux. Warning lights on the dash are the fuel filter water light & timing belt light. Could be others too but half the globes for my warning lights have died and I (and all my local auto sparkys) can't find replacements in the right size

At least I caught a big kingi