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| How to spot shorts?; Fuse keeps blowing? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Wed Feb 3, 2010 2:57 am (575 Views) | |
| wish91 | Wed Feb 3, 2010 2:57 am Post #1 |
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Okay so i have found out the reason my tailight/dashlight/stereo unit is not working, the fuse keeps blowing. This is the fuse that controls the right taillight wich i should add the previous owner broke, its still intact but there is about a 3inch hole where i can only assume water has gotten in, i was wondering how do i find exactly where this short is, and how do i fix this issues?? |
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| Dromara Destroyer | Wed Feb 3, 2010 12:01 pm Post #2 |
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Is your boot (trunk) generally wet? |
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| wish91 | Thu Feb 4, 2010 12:38 am Post #3 |
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yes the lock was also leaking when i purchased the car, funny thing today i went and looked and on the right tail lights assembly there are two brown cords with a clip on the end that attach to the car frame, i removed this,changed fuse turned on lights and the fuse did not blow. the only problem is instead of the stand daytime running light coming on, the signal, and reverse also came on for the right, while the daytime and reverse came on for the left?? and ideas? |
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| balamb37 | Thu Feb 4, 2010 6:30 pm Post #4 |
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Somebody has done a'Bodge' repair and mixed the wireing up, I would suggest rewireing correctly. |
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| wink | Thu Feb 4, 2010 7:19 pm Post #5 |
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Frst unplug the three items and see if the fuse still blows, if OK plug the items back in one by one to find the bad part . |
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| wish91 | Fri Feb 5, 2010 2:17 am Post #6 |
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fixed it, the end clip for the light on the taillight assembly had been a little loose due to the yahoo that owned it before me backed up into sumthing, little bit of tape and now im in business! |
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