my brakelight/horn fuse keeps blowing.. as soon as i put a new one in it blows automatically car dont have to be on or nothing i havent had a car all summer because of this someone please help i need to know where to look and what to do.

 

well obviously somewhere a wire is touching something that shouldnt be. Id check all of your grounds. Have a little look under the dash and under the hood.

 

ive checked all the grounds, ive taken the interior out and checked wires... didnt find anything

 

Check your brake light bulbs. In fact, go ahead and change them all. I had an issue like your on my old 89 Probe. After trying everything, I took it to a shop. It turned out to be one of the bulbs.

Hope it works for you.

 

I assume your using a fuse of the correct rating ? If so suggest you disconnect the wires to your horn making sure they don't touch anything then try a new fuse, if it dosn't blow then this could indicate a fault causing a short inside the horn.

 

try trouble shooting by disconnecting the horn or brake lights one-at-a-time. This will help you figure out which one is causing the short.

Once you do that, trace ALL wires back. For all you know, you could have a tiny section of the wire with some of the sheath missing and it's bumping up against something metal.

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that's a good idea, too

 

ive disconnected all 3 brake lights and both horns, still blew on contact. and i know i dont have any reverse lights.. but when i got the car the reverse lights didnt work, but the brake light prob started out of no where. yes i was using the corect amperage rating, ive even put a 30 in there and it still blew on contact

 

is there any way to ghetto rig it for now?

 

Like The_Sober has said, you probably have a small area of damaged cable sheathing that's in contact with metal causing this short. I would not try a ghetto fix or you could cause an electrical fire, best bet is take to a good auto electrician they have all the circuit testers and equipment, that can really narrow down the problem making it easy to find and fix safely.

 

dont got that much money for all that one place up the road from here said $88 an hour