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I've seen reference made to the earth crowns on a few different threads now and purely out of curiosity I wondered if anyone would tell me exactly where they are, and if they are accessible with the dash still in-situ? I understand that checking/cleaning them is a good first port of call when suffering any strange or irregular electrical faults. My van is an LHD 1983 1.9 Petrol Westy btw. Many thanks in advance.

The fuse box will be slightly different on yours
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And yours is LHD - so the fuse box on the driver's side under the dash... Unscrew the fuse box and look up and to the left and you'll see them!

Great! Thanks for that Aisha. And I'll gather together some pics of my van and send 'em your way. I love the Escorial Green personally and it seems to be a fairly uncommon colour too? Incidentally, few years ago I tried to get a small can of touch-up paint made at Halfords and they couldn't match the colour? I gave them the paint code but it was way off, and not just that my van had faded over time (which it has a little btw ) Anyway, I went to a local air/watercooled bodyshop after that and they matched it perfectly so all good in the end.