Rover 200 & 400 Owners Club

Trying to sort out a problem with the boot interior light not working and was looking for the wiring diagrams for the Coupe's produced with the Bubble interior in the Downloads area, but couldn't find them. There were changes made from the spec for the Series 1 cars (93-96 MYs) in that the interior lights inc. the boot light are on Passenger Compartment Fuse 12 for Series 1. But my car a 1.6SE from September 97 (98 MY) has interior lighting on Pass Comp Fuse 2 as shown in the fuse application listing embossed inside the fuse box cover and also the listing in the Owners Handbook that came with the car RCL0123ENG 2nd Edn. dated 1996.

There are some other subtle changes between S1 and S2 cars in that there is a lock barrel operated push to make switch on the boot key lock barrel, but that, by design, only completes a circuit when the key is turned in the boot lock fully clockwise, release the key and the circuit is broken suggesting that there is something else that makes the circuit for the boot interior light when the boot lid is open. My Haynes manual implies that S1 cars used a switch in the boot catch itself to complete the circuit for the boot interior light and don't show any switch on the lock barrel.

I did think that the R3 wiring diagrams might be suitable, but they're not quite right as these show Fuse 3 for the Interior lighting.

Does anyone have wiring diagrams for the Series 2 (97 & 98 MYs) Coupes, and presumably Cabbys and Tourers, or could someone tell me where I might find them?

I have seen the posts mentioning that the wires in the harness between the body and the boot lid can break, but before I start running new cables between body and boot lid I'd like to rule out any problems with the switches themselves.

Thanks for your help.

I've only got the 96MY diagrams on my RAVE CD, so that may not be of any use to you. But I've uploaded it to the Members Area Rover Documents Download page just in case it might help.

Thank you. I will have a look at it.