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1980 242 Fuse Change Questions 200 1980

posted by  antbar on  Thu Aug 9 19:21 CST 2012
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Hello all, this is a verbatim repost of a post I made on swedishbricks (no responses). Sorry for the duplicate.

Hey everyone. I am 100% new to Volvos, and just bought a 1980 242 with 138K on an intermittent odometer.

When I had a Volvo guy look at it for a pre-buy, he pointed out the importance of cleaning the fuse box and keeping it well maintained. So I went out, bought myself a brass toothbrush and two sets of iPd fuses, and took a look at the owner's manual.

I noticed that the #3 fuse ("Heater Fan") is 16 Amp in the book, but the previous owner has a blue 25 in there. Also, the iPd set has several blue fuses in the set, whereas none are called for in the book--just 8s and 16s. So my questions are:

1) Why might the previous owner have used a 25 instead of a 16,

2) Should I do the same out of hand,

3) Why does iPd include 25s when they aren't specifically called for? When you need to limp your way home on a fuel pump that keeps blowing the 16?


Thanks in advance, your posts helped me decide to go with an old Brick in the first place, which has been surprisingly fun so far!

Tony.






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