06 Seat Alhambra lights... Please help

martinedwards

2 issues, both caused by my ham fisted DIY......

interior lights.... no life.

I had to replace a faulty drivers door handle, and after that..... the courtesy lights are dead. fuses all good, 3 fuses beside the battery all good. any idea what I've missed?

second (and more urgent) rear right tail light.

foolishly I had the lights ON when I took the bulb housing out of the light cluster to change the bub. metal touched, there was a spark and now the socket is getting no power. I've checked all the fuses that are in the book to do with any lights at all but none are blown.

the left light is working, so worst case scenario, I COULD run a wire across and do phantom power from the other side, but I'd much rather do it right and find the blasted fuse!!

MOT test (yes I'm in the North) on Thursday, so if anyone has any insight I'd be really grateful!

Thanks!

biko

Cabin lights
It sounds like when you worked on the handle you disturbed the door switch for the lights somehow.
In the door locks there are switches that turn the cabin light on/off as you open/close door.

Tail light
There is usually one fuse box in the engine bay and one in the driver or passenger footwell.
If you google "seat alhambra fuse box" and choose images it'll show you some diagrams.

martinedwards

OK Biko, thanks

the tail light I've sorted.

it WAS a fuse, hidden way up behind a bulkhead and NOT the number that it should have been......

as to the cabin lights....

if I'd broken the switch, then wouldn't the other doors still trigger them?

as it is you can hear the relay click on & off after 20 seconds or so, so it SEEMS to be the light circuit itself rather than the switch triggering it.

Ah well, time to go and stand on my head in the drivers foot well and pull every fuse and check it.....

oh poo!

martinedwards

found it!

it was way up inside the main fuse board completely hidden behind the steering wheel console.

too tight to reach with the fuse puller tweezers ans near impossible to reach and hook out with a fingernail.

all done while performing the sort of Gymnastics that are normally saved for specialist websites!

DROGBA1

martinedwards any chance you can send on link that got your tail lights sorted last year.I can't find anything of any help.Need urgently as caravan lights seem to be affected by this fuse also. Thanks

biko

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