430 Position lights | Minimal LIGHTS - Help Please

Does the park light button on centre console work? Do they turn on when you press them?

 

Not sure what minimal lights are but based on recent experience, Recharge the battery. It might be a voltage thing. Scuding Swiss DRL that I just installed with the Control unit allows the LED running lights in the "Tunnel" to turn on automatically after starting the engine and only after the engine starting current has been replenished to the battery , then they will turn on. There is about a 1 min delay before they turn on after starting. I don't know the specific voltage that has to be attained to have them start up but there is a noticeable delay. At first, I didn't think they were working, but I have a voltmeter and alternator voltage after starting is immediately up to 13.8 -14V. Cruising it seems to settle on about 13.8V.

 

When you try to switch on the side lights, do the rear side lights come on at the same time ? The 2 fuses in the front compartment supply opposite corners. ie one fuse supplies front right side light and rear red tail light. Other fuse supply to the other opposite pair.

 

There has to be a relay somewhere

 

Are they burned out? open them up and test with a direct connection of 12V to the LED light in question. I know it is both of them but who knows. IME LED's don't last as long as advertised. Things are sometimes coincidental. I gather by minimal light you mean the parking lights that light up the rear reds and front light tunnel. Also put a voltage reader on the supply wire and see what voltage is at the feed wire. IF no voltage, then it is a fuse switch or relay or bad wire somewhere, best guess.

 

If the circuit is wired up the same as the F360, a faulty relay would stop all of the sidelights working and a single faulty fuse would stop diagonal lights working (not two front or two rear). Also, the Park lighting system has a different relay which bypasses the sidelight relay. There are, at least on the F360, independent earths for the front left and right lights.

As you say, simply two bulbs may have blown.

 

The point of my message was to say that it couldn't be a single fuse or relay

But here are the F430 fuses and relays anyway (in the forward luggage compartment) :

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Sorry, that image is a little blurry...

The fuses are numbered...
4 3 2 1
8 7 6 5
12 11 10 9... etc.

 

Sounds like you have shorted out the wiring, go back and check the fuses