Coil light flashing while on hols in France - help please!

[Buzz the Bongo]

Good morning all,

We have started our trusty Bongo this morning and noticed the 'coil' light flashing on the dashboard. It's starting and driving perfectly well, but as we have a 750km journey ahead of us tomorrow back to Blighty from Macon in France, we're concerned that we should identify the problem first so as to be able to decide whether to try and get it fixed before setting off.

It would be great if any of you well-informed Bongoliers could help us, rather worried about whether we'll get home tomorrow or not

Many thanks in advance
Heidi and Roly

[Buzz the Bongo]

Sorry should add that we have a diesel auto bongo 1997 model. And that our stereo is not working today either suddenly. We have a spare set of fuses and are off to check them now! Perhaps I should have said 'glow plug' light rather than 'coil' light. Either way it is the orange light with a picture of a coil on it!

Many thanks in advance.

Buzz (Heidi and Roly)

[Northern Bongolow]

if your radio has gone off too try fuse number 1 in the panel by your right knee.

[Buzz the Bongo]

Ady,

Thanks so much. We replaced Fuse 1 and it all seems fine now.

If anybody has an idea why this may have blown, we would be interested to hear, in case there is any underlying reason for it having happened. We have just fitted a new stereo and been charging our mobile devices from it while driving, don't know if this has overloaded it or something.

Many thanks in advance, much relieved, and thanks again Ady
Buzz

[Northern Bongolow]

dont thank me mate i just pressed the search tab at the top right of the page and entered the key words and up pops thousands of answers .
i checked francophiles answer and relayed it to you. .
have a safe trip back----------------its 83 deg c in britain at the mo, so check your air con .

[bigdaddycain]

Do you have a leisure battery fitted Buzz? A few years back i got a flashing glow plug light, no stereo, central locking,no leccy blinds, no leccy mirrors, no interior lights etc etc... In fact, everything that's powered by the leisure battery on my bongo! The battery was flat, the inline fuse to the battery had blown because the battery had become too flat for the fuse to handle the amount of power being fed back into it. I was informed that if the glowplug light is flashing under such circumstances, then the engine fans won't work either (my journey was too short to confirm this to be true). I wonder if you'd simply flattened the l/b with the chargers etc?

[Buzz the Bongo]

Made our return trip home no problem at all, thanks for the help. Big Daddy Cain, we don't have a leisure battery fitted, we'd just been charging phones through the USB port of the stereo while driving. everything else while camped up was on electric hook up. we didn't realise the coil light could indicate something as minor as a fuse blow, had visions of needing glow plugs or coil replaced on the hard shoulder of the autoroute u til we realised it was just an indication that the cab fuse had blown!

Love the Bongo had a great holiday in it. So easy to drive on long journeys and really pulls up the long hills so you don't lose speed on them (as we would have done in our old vw camper!) the light steering makes it so easy to park and manoeuvre round towns and the auto box takes so much work from you. Love it!

Buzz

[jaylee]

Check this link... http://www.igmaynard.co.uk/bongo/forum/ ... 7&start=15 More relevant reading after my post on the second page & Geoff's answer, starting with "This gets wilder & wilder baby.... "