it switched itself On, if I run engine it runs without key!

it switched itself On, if I run engine it runs without key!

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SergSC

Original Poster:

508 posts

163 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Any ideas?
Sitting here with engine running. Cant turn it off... if I take the key out the revs drop 200 but keeps running...
there is a smell from the fuse box area.

Help please.
S

glow worm

5,884 posts

228 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Put it in 5th and stall it … ?
Then disconnect the battery to be safe

SergSC

Original Poster:

508 posts

163 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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cheers,
any idea what caused it?
Thinking water got in the fuse box somehow.

brownspeed

744 posts

132 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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Sounds like fuse box. I had same issue on mrs brownspeeds mini metro many moons ago which was water ingress into fuse box. It turned the car into a lower powered sh*ttier version of "Christine"

Classic Chim

12,424 posts

150 months

Saturday 8th September 2018
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brownspeed said:
Sounds like fuse box. I had same issue on mrs brownspeeds mini metro many moons ago which was water ingress into fuse box. It turned the car into a lower powered sh*ttier version of "Christine"
biglaugh