help!!! My tail lights dont work!!!

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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 11:00 PM
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help!!! My tail lights dont work!!!

ok so heres my problem my tail lights are out and the bulb is not bad.
There is a fuse box in the batery compartment and the very first 10 amp fuse blows out right after i install a new one when i hit a bump. Someone told me maybe its not grounding or its hitting metal?? What i want to know is what is "its" whats the thing peopoe are saying isnt grounding. I took it to the dealer and the dont want to mess with my car because its modified so can anyone help me out?
This might be a dumb question but what if I put a bigger amp fuse in the slot?

The brake lights work
the interior lights on the console are out
the speedometer works
radio works
nav works
air works
none of those buttons light up

People keep yelling at me to turn my lights on haha i want to fix this fast please help!!
 
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 11:24 PM
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i don't know what the problem could be, but DO NOT put a bigger amp fuse.

there's a reason why the fuse is blowing. Better a fuse than a fire in your car or frying some other part of your electronics.
 
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 11:32 PM
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Best thing to do is trace the wire running to that fuse. Possibly it rubbed somewhere on the car and the wire got exposed and is shorting out. It will prob be a PITA, but that would prob be the best route. Did you install something and it start happening or did it just start happening out of the blue?
 
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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 11:32 PM
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what he said^^^^^^
typically a ground wire... i do wiring on customers vehicles for trailers and usually if there fuse keeps blowing its because the wire that is powering the tail light harness is grounding out (basically touching metal)... this might require you to take a volt tester and just follow the wire from the back to the front untill you find out where the problem lies
 
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Old Sep 20, 2007 | 12:59 AM
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so what am i looking for if i follow the wire and how do i follow it? isnt it going under pannels and stuff? do i have to take my whole car apart.
 
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Old Sep 20, 2007 | 01:13 AM
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this just happened to me last week. I had a shop hook up some fog lights and i blew a fuse. its the same exact fuse you r talking about. there is a hidden fuse box behind the battery. i had to take the baterrey out to get to it. most of the lighting fuses r there. just check all the fuses im pretty sure your problem is there.
 
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Old Sep 20, 2007 | 01:14 AM
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oh releax... i just had the same problem for the last 2 weeks
EXACT same problem
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it's eerie
it's a fuse under the hood.. it cost me $70 to get it fixed at the dealership,
$5 for the fuse, and $60 for labour...
go hit up your dealership, or change the fuse yourself

and yea just like Minh said.. its the HIDDEN box behind your battery where the fuse thats busted is
 
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Old Sep 20, 2007 | 02:52 AM
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there r extra fuses in your fuse box on the driver side by the pedals
 
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Old Sep 20, 2007 | 10:17 AM
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If a fuse keeps blowing, it's not a fuse problem. Assuming you're using the correct size fuse, the circuit is drawing too much amperage. I would suspect that one of your 12V+ parking light wires is pinched somewhere and short circuits to ground when you hit a bump. I'd look first at your headlights and tailights. Probably not behind the head unit because those wires don't move much and usually have enough slack.
 
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