Some time ago, on some other random thread, I may have mentioned something about upgrading the fusebox and adding some extra fuses and writing it up here when I had. Well about 6 months after completing the job, here it is.
I wanted to add some extra fuses to my car's electrical system as it was a little to basic for my liking. The first extra fuse was to protect the accessories circuit(radio and cig lighter). It would have been quite easy take wires straight from the battery and use inline fuse holders, but I hate the look of that, it always looks like such a bodge
My car, being a late model, came with 2 fuse boxes as standard, the second of which has 3 empty spaces. The original idea was to get hold of some extra fuse holder terminals and make use of the extra places, but being unable to find new terminals and accepting that the citroen fusebox is not the most reliable thing in the world, I realised that buying an aftermarket spade fusebox was the sensible way forward. My local motorfactors provided one of these;
Mounting it on the bulkhead in place of the originals was pretty straight forward, I then cut the wires off the original boxes and joined them to the new box one at a time, so as not to mix any up. Keeping the same order as citroen had intended to make any future fault finding easier.
I'll try an explain where I deviated from standard. Counting down from the top, number 3 fuse is 'live with ignition'. You'll notice in the pic that it has 2 wires on the left hand end, one is the normal feed from the ignition switch, the second is a feed to fuse 6. Fuse 6 supplies the windscreen wipers, I wanted them to have their own fuse so that if the linkage ever jammed, hopefully blowing the fuse, then nothing else would be disabled.
Fuse 4 is the 'permanent live' fuse, and is fed from the right hand end (all other fuses are fed from the left, left and right are as you look at the picture). Although difficult to see, there are 2 wires on the output side, the partially hidden standard grey wire and a second red wire, the latter is for the stereo and a clock.
Fuse 7 is for the supply to the lighting switch, more of which later.
Fuse 8, with the white wires, is an accessories fuse, it's from the first position of the 4 position ign switch and supplies the stereo and in future a cig lighter.
There's one more wire to add at some point in the future, I forgot at the time, and thats from the right sidelight fuse (the top one if I remember rightly). This would be to light up some extra gauges which aren't fitted yet anyway.
Also partly visible in that pic is the electric washer pump, recycled from a fiat strada.
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soon though.
