I have a 99 mitsubishi nimbus and I have lost central locking, interior light , clock, radio my trip meter goes to 0 every time I turn ignition off and my electric window delay doesn't work we have checked fuses and all good been told it is possibly a wire off has anyone else had this problem

Fuse 4 does the cigarette light and the side mirrors. Do the mirrors work?
4 15A Cigarette lighter and control system for side mirrors


Fuse 6 does tail lights
6 15A Stop lights
Fuse 14 does the Dash Lights
14 10A Interior lighting and luggage. compartments, clock, radio or radio tape recorder, instrument cluster, central door lock control unit, engine control unit, automatic transmission control unit
If all those fuses are okay, you need a good auto-electrician.

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Get you a manual and make sure you have checked all
Fuses interior and exterior if all are good you may have an open wire or ckt. Board connection?

something shorted
i would be checking the engine bay fuses
central locking will have a relay

are the other instruments working
and just bulbs out...blown bulbs

radio pulled out ?
was the battery disconnected before radio removed

some radios back that far
had an inline fuse or small fuse at the rear of the radio

You are right... You will need to check your fuses. You can buy a fuse puller and pull each one out to check to see if the metal bar is separated or you can often times just tell by looking at it. Most interior fuses is on drivers side .

ignition relay has failed in the fuse box black type.

You still have a fuse or power down issue if clocks reset all the time recheck all fuses with a multi meter and make sure they are good sometimes looking at them is not good enough. If you don't know how to use an ohm meter Google it ok.

This is as a result of a short occurring most likely in the radio harness.

It happened me while working on a customers car. In my case checked all fuses and they all appeared fine, both those under the hood/bonnet and those underneath the steering wheel.

After studying the workshop electrical schemmatics for the car it appears that the clock, interior lights, central locking receiver and radio permanent live/battery are all on the one line.

In effect damage had occurred after the internal fuse panel, therefore all fuses were ok and supplying power across them, but at some point after there was a break in the wire.

However you DO NOT need to remove dash and or replace harnesses to rectify.

Look at the fuse panel underneath the steering wheel. Slot 18 (bottom RHS) and you will see in raised plastic 'BACK UP'. Inserting a 10A fuse here will restore the interior lights, radio, clock and your central locking.

There is a small plastic piece in the way which prevents a fuse going in. Simply use a thin pair of pliers, scissors or a screwdriver (or similar tool) to break this and all pieces of it away until you are able to insert the 10A mini blade fuse.

Problem Sorted!

(I believe the fact this back up exists is because the designers of electrical system at mitsibushi realised it had shortcomings or this would be a potential problem - and included the back up for such an occurence)

Fearghus Quinn
(7 years experienced auto electrician & owner of Car Audio company in Perth Western Australia)

i had a similar problem on my ford probe. i found that the fixed live to the radio had split. it left me with only switched power from the ignition. over time it shorted out and i lost radio, central locking and dash lights. i replaced the fuse in the back of radio and had to have the wiring checked! oddly when it was checked over no other faults were found apart from the split live.i replaced the live feed, reconnected the battery and everything was fine. Dont know if this helps but u never know. Good Luck

Sounds like an ignition switch problem, maybe even at the key.

This sounds like a bad Earthing point off the ignition, fuse boards or battery, check ALL connections to the battery and earthing connections througout the vehicle, a long process, OR, you can take it to a vehicle electrician and pay them, the easiest solution is the latter.