My fuse box has a few melted terminals around relays, I have the whole loom out of the car at the moment. I want to replace the whole box and have been quoted £123.21 for the privilage are there any better alternitives to the ford spec??

Cheers
Dominic

 

What car mate?

 

i take it since its in the escort rs turbo section then it will be an ESCORT RS TURBO

 

Well you would think so but weve all seen this happen far too many times

 

Was a bit of a clue posting in the correct forum, yes its a escort RST

 

You never know mate.

Well.......seeing as a RST fusebox isn't designed to be removed the norm thing to do is change the entire loom.

I doubt very much if you can get new fusebox boards and connectors from Ford now!

 

The parts are avaliable from germany,
Thankyou for your Enquiry.
The Fusebox Housing and Junction panel are no longer available from Ford.
I have managed to locate stock in Europe of these 2 items.

Escort RS Turbo (Series2)-Fusebox Housing-Fuse Junction Panel
Part Number: 1604605(QTY1)
You Pay: £17.26
Escort RS Turbo (Series2)-Fusebox Panel Assy-Fuse Junction
Part Number: 6150915(QTY1)
You Pay: £73.22
Escort RS Turbo (Series2)-Fusebox Wiring connector
Part Number: 6104295(QTY25)
Retail Price: .30p each
You Pay: .27peach
Escort RS Turbo (Series2)-Fusebox Wiring connector
Part Number: 6135934(QTY4)
Retail Price: .77p each
You Pay: .70p each


All I want to know is, what are the alternitives??

 

Thats over £100 before youve even started fitting it......would be cheaper and easier to replace the loom IMO

Fuse boxes don't usually break down for no reason either......

 

my fuse box melted, i bought a second hand loom with fuse box, had that fitted for under £100, never had any probs since

 

how hard is it to change the entire loom in the car?

bassboy

 

Its not hard, it can just be time consuming as you have to remove the dash and all the boot trims etc.

I had a loom out of a car down the scrappy in about 2-2.5 hours, i removed the dash properly, but just ripped out all the boot trims.

Theres far worse jobs you can do on a MK4

 

I can't see the point of replacing the loom with another 15yr old loom.
Is it possible to buy part of the loom new? I want everything but an engine loom at the moment then after the engine is in replace the engine loom and mangement

 

I think there is someone on here that make's up new loom's but i cant remember who it is put a post up in GD someone will know who it is.

 

As i said further up, these looms weren't designed in that way, they are one solid loom.

The 22 year old loom in my cabriolet is fine so i think a 7 year younger loom is going to be ok

As the saying goes, if it aint broke dont fix it!