Hi Guys,

I'll try and answer each question :

Yes, the tail wires are fuseible links and are before the fuse box (3 of them Come from the pos terminal on the battery) and are designed to blow/burn if you have a major electrical problem in the loom. God knows why they didn't run these three cables through a fuse box ...... They come off the battery and are all black wires, about four inches long and then attach to larger cables. As these are designed to fuse first if theres an electrical problem, if you replace them with larger wires, then you should put inline fuses in. I used 35amp wire and 30amp inline fuses, and it seems to have done the trick.

In the short term I'll be carrying a few fuses with me (Just Incase). The 35amp wire that I used to replace the tails is still smaller than the wires they lead too, but larger than the tails I replaced.

This problem caused me days and days of checking every terminal, every earth on the car, and as DAZ C correctly suggested, it was down to these wires (One in particular) all the time. The one that appears to give problems on older cars (purely down to degraded wires) is the one which leads to the thinner of the two red leads. There is one that leads to a thick red wire, this apears to give no problems. One goes to a red wire with a blue line in it, this appears to give no problems. But.... The one that does give problems and appears to have given problem on many peoples cars is the one that leads to the thinner of the two solid red wires. If your cars original, and nobodys messed around with your terminals on the battery then on the adaptor plate on the pos terminal of your battery, the wire that causes the problem is located on the small middle terminal (There are three). I just hope this thread helps out other people in the future.

CHRIS : I'll be in abit of a rush today, so I won't be able to pop around, but I'm at the surrey meeting on sunday. WHERE IS EVERYONE MEETING (Assuming we're going there in convoy) Could you bring your amp meter with you ???