WD40 in the fuse box. Car will not start...

[jedrobson]

Hi all, you've helped me out in the past, hoping you will come up trumps again.

Managed to get some WD40 in the fusebox under the steering wheel of my Peugeot 206 today and now my car won't start. Assumedly because it is interfering with the fuses contact. Any thoughts on how I can fix this?

My best thought so far is jamming a load of dielectric grease in there tomorrow in the hope that it will flush out the WD40...

[jjones]

Spray a load of contact cleaner in? Take a photo of fuses, ip them all out and spray away?

[jedrobson]

jjones said:

Spray a load of contact cleaner in? Take a photo of fuses, ip them all out and spray away?

Thank you, that worked a treat :-)

[tapkaJohnD]

WD40 shouldn't interfere with electrical contact, unless the grip on the fuses is very loose. Even then....

But no doubt I'll be flamed by those who have found that it does.
John

[jedrobson]

tapkaJohnD said:

WD40 shouldn't interfere with electrical contact, unless the grip on the fuses is very loose. Even then....

But no doubt I'll be flamed by those who have found that it does.
John

Haha, It seemed to be in this case. It still wouldn't start this morning. Sprayed a load of contact cleaner in there, cleaned the fuses whilst I waited for it all to dry, started first time!

[Penelope Stopit]

tapkaJohnD said:

WD40 shouldn't interfere with electrical contact, unless the grip on the fuses is very loose. Even then....

But no doubt I'll be flamed by those who have found that it does.
John

I'm with you on this, I have witnessed fuseboxes working under the most extreme conditions

[SlimJim16v]

I agree WD40 was unlikely the issue.
Removing and replacing the fuses is probably what fixed it.

[Fore Left]

jedrobson said:

Haha, It seemed to be in this case. It still wouldn't start this morning. Sprayed a load of contact cleaner in there, cleaned the fuses whilst I waited for it all to dry, started first time!

More likely you'd unseated a fuse doing whatever you were doing with the WD40 in the first place and removing and replacing them reseated it.

[jedrobson]

[/quote]More likely you'd unseated a fuse doing whatever you were doing with the WD40 in the first place and removing and replacing them reseated it.
[/quote]

Mm, I removed and replaced a few times. And replaced the fuses, still no action.

[Penelope Stopit]

Let it roll, if there is a fault it will raise its ugly head again in the near future

[Chris32345]

As above unless you haved flooded it with wd40 and thus causing it to short out it won't be the issue

[Auntieroll]

Chris32345 said:

As above unless you haved flooded it with wd40 and thus causing it to short out it won't be the issue

WD40 is non conductive so the above makes no sense.

[Chris32345]

Auntieroll said:

WD40 is non conductive so the above makes no sense.

Ah I wasn't aware still shouldn't cause ant issues