I have no clue how or why this is happening. Two days ago i got in the car and my gauge, HVAC, and pass. taillight were all out. So i get to work and start pulling fuses, i had a blown 7.5 amp fuse in the engine compartment. (tail light fuse #20 i think) Well i replace the fuse and it blows in like 2 seconds. WTF!!! i figure okay, maybe i need a bigger fuse, so i put in a 10 amp fuse. IT BLOWS!! WTF!! somebody have any idea how this is happening??

Also, I had my HVAC lights go out once b4 but my shift panel and cig lighter went out with them, but this time the cig lighter and shift panel lights are fine

PLEASE HELP!

 

your car is pissed at you....

nah you probably have something in your wireing messed up a lot of time when you blow fuses a lot there is a shorted wire somewhere that is grounding out (causing the fuse to pop) if you did any electrical work on your car lately that would be a good place to start.

 

the last thing to be wired in was a rear lisense plate light but that was like 2 weeks ago

 

There is a huge misunderstanding about how fuses work. Fuses are there only for one reason, which is to save your delecate electronics. They purposely make it the weakest link in the circuit, so it blows before any of the electronics do. So if you blow 2 or more of the same fuse, that means that something is wrong with that circuit. I recommend you have someone check every part of that circuit to see where it's shorting out. Just replacing the fuse ignores the problem and risks your car's electronics more.

Moving to troubleshooting.

 

thanks man! i was hoping that i wouldnt have to do that but oh well, ill ask my mechanic to check it out when i go in for brakes on tues.

 

ugh I say check the curcuit and get nothin he says the same thing only in more words and its "thanks man!" I see how it is

also urban I didn't realize that many people didn't know what a fuse was for... I figured that was common sence but then again I'm an electronics major...

 

I know, you can ask people whata fuse does and they're like "uhhh, it runs the lights on my car?" Of course, I knew to tell him how fuses work because I didn't use to know. I kept changing the fuse in my Trans Am until someone told me it was an electrical problem. We're all dumb to start, then we start learning. But yeah, you had the right suggestion, I guess he just needed to know why.

 

well THANK YOU too sentinal.....*cough*dick*cough*







lol j/k bro

 

nah ricks just a ***** and needed to hear it from someone other than me cause I'm an EvoM ***** so my opinion doesn't count!

lol @ rick lamer!

 

^^^your right

 

yeah...i agree with brian on this..alot of people think that its the fuses fault when it blow and all they do is replace it ...i know thats how i was when i first started working on cars...i also have had to learn the hard way about not putting a fuse on certain things...to make a long story short...ground and positive connected(positive connected direct to battery...not a good thing...saw the wires turn a deep RED(hmm i wonder what that is...i didnt really say that ...i was more like o **** i have to pull those two wires off of eash other) not thinking that i wasnt wearing gloves( i dont think it would have mattered at that point) but pulled the wires cus i was scares hit less( this all happened within 2 seconds)...and wires sliced my thumb and pointer finger...almost in half...pretty deep but being that the wires were so hot my finger didnt bleed...
damn i can still feel that

 

Nice! I think ill let Greg (mechanic) check it out

 

lookslikeanevo reminded me. I know some people get tired of replacing fuses (because they don't realize it's for a reason) so they put a paperclip or something in there instead. DON'T DO THAT! It's like taking out your seatbelt, you just removed the only safety you have.

*This public service anouncement brought to you by EvoM ****** that have no life and are otherwise complete insomniacs.

 

Your battery was disconnected before you started pulling fuses right?
Leave it like that until they're ALL replaced.