Interior light fuse....the search for the short

so, it wouldn’t make a particularly exciting film title, but wondering if anyone can help me find a short in the freelander?

The interior light fuse pops as soon as you swap it, which is stopping me using an obd reader to read an intermittent eml that I keep getting.

So far I’ve removed:-

Interior clock
Glove box light
Main light cluster
Rear light cluster
Boot light

Is there anything else running off that fuse I can remove?

Anyone have any tips on how else I can track down whatever is shorting out the circuit?

Please help, I need to be able to read the intermittent fault code! And I’d quite like working interior lighting

Thanks in advance

Have you looked at the wiring diagram in the LR Rave workshop manual?

It can be downloaded to a Windows PC. Info on downloading and how to run it can be found here...

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/rave-disk-maintenance-manual.260227/

That's assuming its an F1. Surprised the interior light fuse is stopping the diagnostics socket from working.

I was surprised as well, but managed to communicate with the ecu while the fuse was ok, a couple of days ago, fuse blew again and now can’t communicate. I thought it was a bit strange, it is a fl1 td4 ‘06 plate

Had a look on Rave, circuit diagrams aren’t the easiest to understand! Might be looking at the wrong model, not sure but seems to suggest interior lighting is not on fuse 16, which it definitely is. Anyone had a similar issue and been able to solve it?

According to my circuits, fuse 16 is only live when the lights are on (sides or headlight) and feeds the light up part of the switches, when sidelights or headlights are on the switches that light up are; Cruise, Fog, Rear washer, Rear wiper, panel lamps, radio display and the glove box illumination. Interior light is shown as fuse 14 and fed from ccu for delay and light up when unlocked etc.

Hope this helps, if it is not a wire shorting it may be worth isolating the above switches as a bent contact in the switch could apply an earth to the light feed.

Thanks Andy,

I’ve taken the interior lights etc out and the foam block above the main front interior light is melted, so was hoping it was the courtesy light causing the issue, but same problem when it’s unpluggged.

Will have to wait until Saturday now, but think I will remove the sun visors and drop the front of the headlining to inspect the wires in that area first.

Will keep thread updated with progress