My 12V socket, aerial and central locking won't work... please help!

thought it was mine! said:

another good point barmatt on form tonight

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best crack open another beer if I've started making sense

I'll try and answer a couple of Q's

the aerial....do you mean the top just spins when you turn it? as there is a nut on the bottom, accessed from inside the wheel arch iirc. mine is a length of 10mm electric cable stuck in the hole and it works a treat.

the central locking...if it works when you pull the fuse in and out is the fuse the correct size? I mean physically the correct size not ampage as cheap fuses can be smaller and just wobble around not making contact.

opened that other beer, so I'll stop making sense anytime now

I hadn't thought about the size of the fuse physically. It clips in properly and doesn't feel loose. Where would I get a thicker fuse?

Aerial. I've bought exactly the same one as was fitted. I'm trying to just replace the aerial without having to replace the whole unit and I was hoping I could just undo the nut on top, slide the new aerial in and add the new nut but it just twists. I guess the screw is turning too.

I can't see how I'd get to inside the wing. My arm isn't long enough to reach up from below and i can't see up to it when I look up from underneath. I saw all those screws along the top of the wing and undid them but it wasn't budging.

Thank you

nathan5346 said:

carbonate of soda will remove smells... plenty of it

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How would this work? Scrubbing it in and then hoovering off?

AlanWJDonald said:

I can't see how I'd get to inside the wing. My arm isn't long enough to reach up from below and i can't see up to it when I look up from underneath. I saw all those screws along the top of the wing and undid them but it wasn't budging.

Thank you

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you have to undo all those screws and I think there may be some bolts as well (can't remember without looking) but like everything on a landy it will take some encouraging to shift.

I went for the cable as it just bends when you get a bit close to a tree on a lane and can be bent back.

Fair dos. I think next pay day a Haynes might be in order. Cable makes sense but i was just aiming to do a straight swap over for now to try and get radio 4 for the whole of my journey to work not just in the two towns. If I have to pull the whole thing apart to change this one I might as well fit something better.

AlanWJDonald said:

The bicarb. Do you mean scrub it down with damp bicarb then...? Hoover it off?

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use it like shake n vac but leave it fer ages and do it as many times as ya need... only thing ive found that works.... Minty told me that 1

just stick a bit of cable in it for now till you get round to it.

Don't bother buying a haynes book of lies, do a search on here for rave manual, much more detailed and a free download.

hope this helps a little.

Cheers. I think we've got a big bucket of it somewhere for a time when we only had 1 or 2 kids and vaguely believed a tidy and clean house was something possible rather than a stupid dream and heartbreaking aspiration that will never be achieved and thus will drag you down depressively forever.

Rave manual. OK will do. What do you have at the end of the cable? Bare wire straight in and hope or have you attached it in some way?

AlanWJDonald said:

Rave manual. OK will do. What do you have at the end of the cable? Bare wire straight in and hope or have you attached it in some way?

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It is some thick single core wire I found kicking around, so stripped about 5" of the plastic off and jammed it in, works great. Not attached at all.

Cool. I'll give it a go. Failed to find a TDi manual so far, lots of TD5s. I'll try again tomorrow. Will think more about the central locking and 12V socket again tomorrow too I think. Bed now. Thanks all.

You were right elbow grease and leverage were enough to get the wing off enough to get my arm in.

I fitted the new aerial simply because I'd paid for it already but when it inevitably breaks I will replace it with a wire as suggested.

I'll bicarb the back of it fully during the week and scrub it in then leave it for a few days.

I had another look at the 12V socket and I can't see anything obvious. What I thought I'd do is solder onto the output from the fuse (when I figure out which side of the fuse that is) as there is power going through it (the radio works) onto the socket (but which prong?) and then solder another wire from the other prong to the bodywork. Knowing which is +ve and which is -ve is the big issue though.

No idea on the central locking though. Could it be the switch in the lock that is at fault? I've taken to unlocking my door and then just touching the fuse to the slot to unlock the others. Pain in the neck but it works.