Contents: Fuses are colored differently…🠛 Relay 🠛
Attention! It is strictly forbidden to replace a burnt fuse with wire, foil or similar materials (bugs) to avoid failure of electrical equipment units and components or fire.
Replacement procedure:
- de-energize the consumer protected by this fuse;
- establish, using Table 8.3, the location of the fuse and open the fuse box cover;
- inspect the fuses. A sign of a blown fuse is visible melting of the metal jumper;
- use tweezers to remove the blown fuse from its socket;
- install a fuse of the same amperage. Spare fuses are installed in special sockets. The fuse rating is indicated on its body;
- if the fuse blows again, check the electrical circuit from the power source to the consumer.
Fuses are colored differently depending on their rated current (A)
[Article reprinted from the website: RenaultBook]
- Orange - 5
- Red - 10
- Blue - 15
- Yellow - 20
- Transparent or white - 25
- Green - 20
Relay
Depending on the vehicle's configuration, the electrical equipment includes a large number of relays - electrically controlled switches. Using relays, you can remotely control electrical circuits with high currents using thin wires and low-current switches on the instrument panel.
Figure 8.16. Location of the relay and multitimer under the instrument panel
Figure 8.17. Location of the relay in the block: 1 – fog light relay; 2 – rear window heating relay; 3 – direction indicator relay; 4 – driver's door window lifting relay; 5 – driver's door window lowering relay; 6 – parking light relay; 7 – low beam headlight relay; 8 – Windscreen wiper relay; 9 – Rear window wiper relay; 10 – central lock relay (closing); 11 – central lock relay (opening); 12 – relay after ignition off
The main relays are installed under the front panel on the left side (Figure 8.16). The purpose of the relay is shown in Figure 8.17.
Some vehicles are equipped with an additional relay unit installed under the hood on the left side in front of the upper support of the shock absorber strut. The unit contains the injection system and power steering relays.
The best way to check a relay is to replace it with a known good one, but keep in mind that relays may perform different functions despite their external similarity, so make sure that the relay numbers indicated on the housing match.