I had the same problem almost a year ago, the damage sounds like it's the same.
This is what knackered really's car up too.
Once it's all fixed may I suggest this......
Once it's all fixed may I suggest this......
Andy, I think you will find that that Lucas part number has now been superseded. It's now a far bigger jar with denser smoke !
What I can't understand is how so much damage can occur without blowing a 15A fuse, the amount of heat energy required to burn such a large amount of wire insulation is quite frightening. We lost a car once due to an electrical fire, hopefully never again !
As I said in an earlier post in this thread I have done the repair on 2 TF's but I cut the loom out completely from the main harness and replaced it with a high quality 7 core cable (Lapp, Stuttgart. 7 x 1mm sq multicore)
I fitted a waterproof connector plug at the harness end then formed a big loop behind the boot hinge to give minimum movement of the cable and wired the other ends direct to the individual points in the boot lid to minimize extra connections.
When I cut open up the old boot loom I found a crimp joint where the wires had been tapped into, this had been done at the factory (the black or purple I think) so I had 7 strands at one end and only 6 at the other, I put the new joint at the plug this gave me a spare core which I used for the electric boot release.
Now with the new plug if I ever need to remove the boot lid I can just unplug at the harness (why would I ever need remove the boot lid ! )
I think I still have the images in the camera; I will post them up later.
Brian.