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The fuse diagram of my car is in german and I'd really need one in english. I tried searching Google and this forum, but all the diagrams I found had different numbers for the fuses, so wouldn't work.
The attachment is the diagram my car has. Would the code in the lower right corner help the search?
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There are a lot of them, so many that I could just as well do a machine translation on my diagram and correct it by hand (which I might have to do anyway, it seems). The first five items I checked didn't correspond at all, and at a glance I saw wrong numbers anywhere. I can go into details if you like, but in a nutshell it's just that almost nothing corresponds.
I translated the german version myself, because it seems that there's no correct version around. For ease of reading, I also categorized the fuses:
Climate control and heating, anti-ice:
Air conditioning 16,20,23,31,39
Door lock heating 33
Front seat heating 4,23
Heated washer jets 24
Heater blower 20
Heater control 23
Independent ventilation 20
Rear window heating and blower 6,23
Engine and powertrain:
Automatic transmission 28
Auxiliary fan 16,41
Fuel pump 18
Instruments, controls and comfort:
Check control 45
Cruise control 46
Clock 31
Headlight level control 37
Instrument cluster 23,27,31,46
On-board and outside temperature displays 23,31,45
On-board computer 23,45
Radio 9,44
Seat adjustment, driver 40
Seat adjustment, passenger 5
Side-view mirror adjustment 24
Soft-top 7,35,43
Sun roof 1
Telephone 33,43
Lighting, exterior:
Brake light 46
Front fog lights 15,22
Hazard warning flashers and turn signals 23,24
Headlight flasher 23
High-beam headlight, left 11,25
High-beam headlight, right 12,25
License plate light 37
Low-beam headlight, left 25,29
Low-beam headlight, right 25,30
Parking light 33
Rear fog lights 17,22
Reversing light 26
Side light, left 33
Side light, right 37
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