Melted Fuse Box on top of Battery

[jiggseob]

Back in June of Last year, the fuse box on top of the battery melted when one of the fuses heated up and melted down. The fuse did not blow, and there was no indication that the circuit was drawing more current than the fuse itself was rated for. The contacts on the blade of the fuse got hot and started a fire.

I replaced the fuse panel, and the fuses, and everything is now fine.

I notified Transport Canada of the near burn-down of this car, and they have asked me to provide information about my failure.

I'm sending them my stuff, hopefully they issue a recall order before people's cars burn up.

Has anyone else had this problem? I know at the time I saw some other posts of this problem, but now I can't find them. If there gets to be a signifigant amount of information here, I may forward the link to this thread to the Transport Canada investigator.

Ideally, no one should have this kind of problem.

Thanks, all. Mathew Banack

[blackonblack]

Was very common on early models and recalled in the US. What year is yours?

[rcy]

From the old forums...there are other threads re: the same thing, but this one is the longest..

http://forums.newbeetle.org/showthre...ht=melted+fuse

[lunchindabox]

That link is no good. Can i get VW to replace my 98 under the re-call? 85k miles.

[LadybugEwa]

I wouldn't hold my breath