Chris On my car the whole of the roughly L shaped metal panel (manual page M:09:03) , onto which the indicator flasher relay, buzzer box and wiper control lucas thingy plugs was loose. The placement of it when I strarted investigations would indicate that it was not secured when I got the car, but was simply balanced onto of the heating duct. The other cable on the metal piece is a ground wire. I suspect what was happening was that as it moved the meatl panel was brushing against something metal making incorrect contacts or the ground wire itself was somehow loose. Many of our list collegues had suggested a loose ground being the cause of my troubles, but it seems that it might have been this one, rather than the one on the frame that was to blame. I think I have now cracked it, there were some clip things in my glovebox that are meant to hold it in place! Thanks to the excellent DMCNEWS technical downloads for a diagram that you can zoom on. OK so I still have one cable 'left over' (2 wires one green, the other orange/black) but everything now works, including the intermittent wipe, though like Andy and you I could probably count the number of times the wiper has been across the screen! I took the car out yesterday with it deliberately loose some of the symptoms for future reference: 1. Fuel gauge stuck at 50%. I visited the petrol station and filled up, not a fllicker. 2. Volt meter shows very low, never showing more than 10v, most of the time at zero or just pointing to 8v, depsite new battery and true measured voltage at >14v running. 3. No door buzzer, seatbelt undone indication (OK I could live without that). 4. Trying to run the indicators needed the enigne ticking over at >2000rm, at idle the indicators didn't work. 5. Only one elctrical gizzmo at a time and that caused all of the indicators to dim (lock door light etc). 6. When running the car trying to use electrical stuff, blower and indicators for example, I had fuse 5 blow three times. 7. Temp and oil pressure gauges floated to anywhere they chose, altering as much at 75% of their range in seconds. 8. This was a 'front of the car' problem, windows worked fine! John Chapelhow DOC 19 : 'Boeing' 0737 John, I take it that this box, is the black Lucas thingy? With a plug in one side and a socket next to it? If so, you can simply take it out and plug the male and female sockets together. All it does in cause that rather annoying "intermittent wipe to come on, when you depress the wiper arm once. I removed the one on Dusty as it went faulty, It was obviously an afterthought .its still off. Chris Parnham