Fuse keeps blowing
Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2025 9:09 am
Hello again
About two months ago I was driving and out of nowhere the engine suddenly cut out and it turned out to be fuse 9 ( blue 15amp far left middle row on board ) had blown. Mechanic changed it over and everything has been fine since...until Friday when on the way to Latitude festival. Everything was fine..had driven over halfway ( mainly motorway for around 1 and a half hours) then stopped at services for a coffee. Got back on the A12 and after getting back up to 65mph the engine completely died on me
Luckily there was a grass verge and a massive pavement to crash land on.
I tried changing the fuse ( which had blown again ) but even though the van started again and seemed okay it cut out and blew fuse again after a minute or so,....this kept happening so I decided not to risk driving. Waited for the absolutely useless AA to recover me but gave up after 2 and a half hours and paid someone £260 to recover the van back home. While waiting the engine cooled down so I decided to try another fuse out of curiosity....van stayed running for a good 5 minutes or so but I turned it off and thought I'd either fix it when home or sell her




Would anyone have any ideas as to where I could start to find the problem?
Thank you so much in advance and apologies for the long post
Hello again
About two months ago I was driving and out of nowhere the engine suddenly cut out and it turned out to be fuse 9 ( blue 15amp far left middle row on board ) had blown. Mechanic changed it over and everything has been fine since...until Friday when on the way to Latitude festival. Everything was fine..had driven over halfway ( mainly motorway for around 1 and a half hours) then stopped at services for a coffee. Got back on the A12 and after getting back up to 65mph the engine completely died on me
Luckily there was a grass verge and a massive pavement to crash land on.
I tried changing the fuse ( which had blown again ) but even though the van started again and seemed okay it cut out and blew fuse again after a minute or so,....this kept happening so I decided not to risk driving. Waited for the absolutely useless AA to recover me but gave up after 2 and a half hours and paid someone £260 to recover the van back home. While waiting the engine cooled down so I decided to try another fuse out of curiosity....van stayed running for a good 5 minutes or so but I turned it off and thought I'd either fix it when home or sell her




Would anyone have any ideas as to where I could start to find the problem?
It's a 2.5TD P registration
Thank you so much in advance and apologies for the long post
About two months ago I was driving and out of nowhere the engine suddenly cut out and it turned out to be fuse 9 ( blue 15amp far left middle row on board ) had blown. Mechanic changed it over and everything has been fine since...until Friday when on the way to Latitude festival. Everything was fine..had driven over halfway ( mainly motorway for around 1 and a half hours) then stopped at services for a coffee. Got back on the A12 and after getting back up to 65mph the engine completely died on me
Luckily there was a grass verge and a massive pavement to crash land on.
I tried changing the fuse ( which had blown again ) but even though the van started again and seemed okay it cut out and blew fuse again after a minute or so,....this kept happening so I decided not to risk driving. Waited for the absolutely useless AA to recover me but gave up after 2 and a half hours and paid someone £260 to recover the van back home. While waiting the engine cooled down so I decided to try another fuse out of curiosity....van stayed running for a good 5 minutes or so but I turned it off and thought I'd either fix it when home or sell her
Would anyone have any ideas as to where I could start to find the problem?
Thank you so much in advance and apologies for the long post
Hello again
About two months ago I was driving and out of nowhere the engine suddenly cut out and it turned out to be fuse 9 ( blue 15amp far left middle row on board ) had blown. Mechanic changed it over and everything has been fine since...until Friday when on the way to Latitude festival. Everything was fine..had driven over halfway ( mainly motorway for around 1 and a half hours) then stopped at services for a coffee. Got back on the A12 and after getting back up to 65mph the engine completely died on me
Luckily there was a grass verge and a massive pavement to crash land on.
I tried changing the fuse ( which had blown again ) but even though the van started again and seemed okay it cut out and blew fuse again after a minute or so,....this kept happening so I decided not to risk driving. Waited for the absolutely useless AA to recover me but gave up after 2 and a half hours and paid someone £260 to recover the van back home. While waiting the engine cooled down so I decided to try another fuse out of curiosity....van stayed running for a good 5 minutes or so but I turned it off and thought I'd either fix it when home or sell her
Would anyone have any ideas as to where I could start to find the problem?
It's a 2.5TD P registration
Thank you so much in advance and apologies for the long post