I know its not G-class....

I know its not G-class, but you cant help but feel for the guy.

After having driven home with no cabin lights on Tuesday night, I went out yesterday to try and find why my rear licence plate and dash lights don't work on the zuk. A fuse kept blowing, so I thought it might have been the lighting for the extra guages I popped in that was the problem (wired in series to original clock light wiring!). I removed the guages, popped in a new fuse, turned the key to light up the accessories, turned on the lights - hey presto problem solved! Hurrah for me!

Turned my back for two seconds on the bastard thing, turned around again and here's the cab full of toxic white smoke - dash board wiring loom on fire. So I spent a minute or two coating it with ample amounts of look over, then another few minutes hurting myself trying to get past Hilux to garage and then over the Anaconda hurdle assembling my power washer, then finally a few minutes putting out the fire.

Maybe I wasn't meant to have an offroad vehicle, maybe I'm destined to have a garage full of parts. Maybe I should just take up stamp collecting, although they'd probably burst into flames too..... Seriously - I'm a good person, I don't deserve this, all I want to do is drive in muddy places. Or maybe it is a higher being saying, this is an opportunity to make that sexy new aluminium dashboard and weed out all the shite wiring and bit by bit exentually have that super duper offroader. Is the glass half empty or half full? Anyone know a cheap source of auto wiring cable? Looks like a complete re-wire is on the cards.

Sigh....

sorry about your difficulties. it seems as though the
glass is half FULL. this is an excellent opportunity
to upgrade your equipment. someone upstairs just
wanted to purge your rig of cheap components and
shoddy wiring. great opportunity!!!!
Best of Luck.

Does this happen with Mercs??