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Weard Troubles To Get The Hood Working Help!


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Dear friends, My hood stopped working. I own a 89 escort cabrio xr3i 1.6cc

What I have already done is:

 

-I checked the up/down switch and it’s working (I put it on the electric window and it works). I tested and I can get 12v in the switch as well.

-The termal fuse next to the pump seems to work ok, it has continuity in my tester.

-I get 12v in the 2 relays, in fact it seems direct 12v from battery as I can test it even with the car stopped and key off.

-I tried to test if I get 12v when the up/down switch in the dashboard is pushed but it seems that I cannot get any signal from the switch. So maybe I lose the signal 12v from the switch to the relays (it seems a little weard though)

-I bypassed the relay with a small cable putting the 12v to the 12v out direct to the pump and it maked noise even the roof was electric opened. But it does not close if I do the same in the reverse relay.

I was happy to see that the pump works…

-But now I am even more worried as I have tried again to put 12v to the pump and it does not work nor make any noise. Maybe I blowed it up, who knows…

 

So dear friends, I am very sad and very worried. I donnot know what to do. I recon I am some kind of shocked.

I don’t know if I should start from scratch, or if I should take the pump out and check properly if it works or not. I was going to buy 2 new relays and one termal fuse but the 3 of them cost a total of 70euros, and I think this will not solve the problem as they probably are ok. It seems weard for me that the cables from the switch in the dashboard are cut somewhere….

HELP PLEASE

 

Paco

Valencia Spain

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