New V8 Vantage Location of Cabin Fuse Box

[sadlerj]

I have no power to the boot power supply in my V8 Vantage, think the charger has blown the fuse. It is in the cabin fuse box that is supposed to be located in passenger footwell. I have crawled all over the interior of the car and cannot find the fuse box...anyone know where it actually is located?

[corradokid]

Should tell you in the book but remove passenger mat if fitted, get a grip of the top edge of the passeger floor carpet and peel back carefully. Behind the carpet is a panel held on with eight
torx bolts which need to be removed, behind this panel is the cabin fusebox. Done.

[sadlerj]

My book is very vague, just says in passenger footwell. Cheers for that, I saw the plate and bolts but that looked a bit hidden for a fuse box..will get the tool set out later.

[MichaelV8V]

Isn't Google great, brought me straight to this thread.

I've done the same thing, blown fuse 77, and crawled all over the passenger footwell to find the fuses. Never occured to me that the fuse box might be under the carpet, sealed in with Torx screws. Interesting that the fuse for the footwell light is in there too!

[Grant3]

Jmaes.. the word "New" appears in the header, has the green beast made way for a new family member?

[MichaelV8V]

corradokid said:

Should tell you in the book but remove passenger mat if fitted, get a grip of the top edge of the passeger floor carpet and peel back carefully. Behind the carpet is a panel held on with eight
torx bolts which need to be removed, behind this panel is the cabin fusebox. Done.

...It took a bit of tugging to get the carpet away from the gluepads, but once off the job was simple enough. No spare fuses in there though, fortunately my Skoda provided a spare.

These cars are amazingly well engineered, even the panel covering the fusebox is beautifully made aluminium, with strengthening ribs, and 7 large torx bolts holding it in place, and with 1" of dense foam under the carpet to provide soundproofing. Very different from TVR, where stuff like relays were just shoved up the side of the battery, with a bit of rough GRP and carpet to cover it, and no soundproofing at all. Thats probably why the Aston weighs 600 kilos more than a TVR!