Hello everyone im new to the forum and I hope you can help ive been looking round here for a while now and have finally decided to register.

Heres the story im 25 now but my first car was a mk5 1.3 escort with the rs skirts and a few other bits and i loved it. recently my father in law has been driving round in a chavved up mk6 1.8 s.i and i love i apart from the chavvy mirrors and wheels and a few other bits which would be easily sorted its a good solid car with no rust that i can see.

Here the problem the father in law is going working away and said i can have the car , its not working at the moment as he seems to think its a fuse box problem i have taken off the fuse box and its all burnt inside soi bought a new one for it with a slightly different part number and it didnt work all that happened is that the back wiper came on and wouldnt switch off

the original fuse box part number is

96ag14a073bb

the one i fitted is

97ag14a073bb

is this the problem does the number have to be identical

also i put the original fuse box back in and every thing seems to work apart from the car doesnt start and also the father in law has cheaked the starter motor and he said its working fine

i hope you can help people as i would love this car as my project and want to save it from the scrappers