Handbooks - a moan

[WyrleyD]

Well, while messing about fitting new number plate lights to my trailer while hooked up to the Kangoo I somehow managed to kill the rear sidelights and rear fog lights and instrument lights on the car, no idea how, but there you go. Anyway, I guessed it must be a fuse or relay that had blown as everything else worked (flashers, brake lights and reversing light) so looked in the handbook for the fuse/relay layout but the thing is the layout in the handbook did not match the layout in the actual fusebox and neither did the little schematic on the fusebox cover. The fuses/relay for the rear lights was not mentioned at all so short of pulling every fuse I wasn't gong to find what the problem was as it might not have been a fuse at all but a relay but there was no layout of what relay did what. I looked on-line but again couldn't find a fuse layout like the one in my car - except - I stumbled across a Russian car website and hidden away on there was a description of the fusebox as it is in my car. Looking at the layout on there I pulled two likely candidate fuses (labelled L Rear Lights, Instrument lights, fog light and R Rear lights, fog light) and sure enough both had blown, fuses replaced and all is well again.

Why can't manufacturers at least try and be helpful and have what is actually on the car in the handbook, it would have saved a lot of time messing about!

[Salamura]

I've never come across such an issue with my frenchies. The layout on the cover has always been representative on all of them, so I'm not sure why this isn't the case on your Kangoo. Did you manage to sort it out in the end?