Side Marker Fuse Blown
#61
Sorry, it was late last night. Everything was fine a few days ago. For some reason the right. Fog light went out, looked at it and it was fine. Play with the switch and once I turn on the high beams both fog went on. Left it as it was. Now my door signal and cluster light only work with the car on ignition.
#65
Got almost all my interior lights back after changing door bulb with light on and screw driver slipped, touched both connectors and shorted the circuit. I lost interior domes, doors, A/C and heater function, but more importantly my my gauges and their lights. None of my gauges work. ALL of my fuses checked good visually. Finally disconnected negative battery terminal and reattached and got everything back EXCEPT instruments/gauges-all dark and dead. Any ideas? How about fusible links, relays, etc.?
#67
I checked EVERY pull out fuse in all three boxes. The fusible links visually look OK. I have disconnected the battery for a couple minutes and re-connected- no luck. No instrument gauges work nor do they have back lights. It seems to be affecting my performance too. When I moderately jump on it, it stumbles. Tranny? Driving smoothly it does OK. All this from shorting a door bulb, geeeez.
So no instrument gauges or lights and mirror is not powered either.
Any ideas out there?
So no instrument gauges or lights and mirror is not powered either.
Any ideas out there?
#68
Thanks for the help. I never knew about this box either and sure enough when I checked that fuse was blown. However, I replaced it and right away it blew again. Finnally I figured out my LED lights were causing the problem. I had leds in the side marker, clock light, parking light (headlight) and on my license plate. I took them all out and put the fuse in and it worked. I then did some troubleshooting testing with just the side markers etc and it turns out that the led in my clock light were the culprit. I realized that putting too many leds that all rely on the 10a fuse in the mystery box will probably cuase it too blow because its too much for it to handle. I'm gonna put a regular light back in the clock and just keep the leds in the side marker. I also pulled the parking light leds and license plate ones. Hope I don't get any more problems
#71
#72
kind of a similar situation.. i was trying to switch LED bulbs into my side markers and when i swapped them in the first time i was stupid enough to leave lights running (cuz i wanted to see them light up so i knew they were in the right way).. it light up for a split second and then all 4 of my sidemarker lights and some others went out. got it fixed and tried it again with the lights off, but when i turned them back on, the same thing happened. had to get it fixed again.. now im too scared to replace the bulb, anyone have any suggestions? thanks
#73
#74
Thank god for this thread. My license plate light was the culprit. I took my car to get repaired and the body shop put led lights in my license plate light.
I swapped them out with the oem peanut bulbs and problem solved. I should have checked that first it would have saved me 3 blown fuses.
I swapped them out with the oem peanut bulbs and problem solved. I should have checked that first it would have saved me 3 blown fuses.
#75