One day i went over to my friends house, parked my car in the driveway, came out a few hours later, turned on my lights, and then this fuse blows. No running/parking lights, nothing lights up on the instrument cluster or climate controls, and nothing lights up on the tail lights or licence plate.

When i hit the brakes, the brake lights come on, and when i hit the hazards button, those still light up on all 4 corners.

Im stumped. i visually inspected every wire i could get my hands on everywhere, nothing looked out of place at all. I found not a single wire grounding out where it shouldnt be grounding out at. nothing. I also checked every single fuse in both the engine bay and underneith the dash, all of them where okay.

I have replaced this fuse 4 different times over a couple days, still keeps blowing through everyone.

i thought maybe someone here might have another idea of something i could try before i think of taking it to a dealer and get raped on priceing.


Modified by 4DooRGiSzer at 6:10 PM 3/10/2005


Modified by 4DooRGiSzer at 6:31 PM 3/10/2005

 

It's the interior lighting fuse. Did you recently change anything, such as the head unit? I had a fuse that kept blowing because of a short in the head unit wiring. Did you try just replacing the fuse? Maybe it just screwed up...

 

I havent touched the head unit since i bought the car over two years. That is why it was so weird, i hadnt touched a thing on my car, and the fuse blew, and kept on blowing.

 

Check the tail and numberplate light bulbs. Sometimes a bulb can short out...

The instrument, dash, numberplate, front running and tail lights are all on the same circuit, this is why you still have main/dipped, hazard, indicator, brake and reverse lights.

 

[QUOTE=Irish Integra]Check the tail and numberplate light bulbs. Sometimes a bulb can short out...
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what weird about that, is i un plugged the tail lights. Each side has a main harness that plugs into the outside portion of the tailights (4 door teg). On the passenger side the wires for the license plate extend from the harness on the passenger side. I unplugged those, put a new fuse in, turned on the lights, and popped another fuse.

That would work right?? to possible isolate the situation?? if not, let me know what you think.

 

isolating is the name of the game. easiest done w/ a dmm but your way can work too.

might want to check the brake switch on the brake pedal. look for its wires to be frayed or anything. maybe your feet hit them or something and its causing them to short to ground and pop the fuse.

 

okay cool thanks, i will check that out tomarrow morning sometime. But lets say that was the problem... what if's here. when i hit my brake pedal, the brake lights still work, just not the running lights. So does that mean it is still something else.

i havent looked at what your talking about yet. but my brakes lights still turn on when i hit the pedal.

 

same exact thin happend to my 94.... my dad took it to a guy that specializes in honda acura..... i dont live with him and never got around to askin what it was.... ill give him a call and get back to you

 

hopefully you can read diagrams and are familiar with DMM's.





if you need anymore just pm me.

 

I have take an Electricity class before, and an Electronics class before. I pretty much understand the circuit diagrams, and i understand how to use Digital Multimeter too. But as far as putting the two together, i have never trouble shooted stuff like this before to figure out a problem.

a small explanation would be helpful. Thanks for the diagrams too

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any help would be much apreciated. thanks

 

DOes it pop when you turn your headlights on, or as soon as you put another fuse in there? Maybe it's you combination switch.

 

when this happened to me it was like the other guy, had a short in the head unit wiring. though you didnt touch it, pull it and check

 

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it pops the fuse as soon as i turn the head lights on, doesnt hurt the fuse with the lights off.

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i will check that tomarrow too, thanks

 

That fuse keeps blowing for me now that I installed my HID JDM front end. I upped my low beam fuses to 15s and now it takes longer to blow them. Thinking about going up to 20 to solve the problem. The guy I talked to at Autozone said to up to 20 if 15s didn't work. Dunno what in the world could be your problem since nothing changed. Check all the connections to the fuse box, there could be lose wires.

 

i talked to my dad- turns out it was a pinched wire inbetween the tailight housing and the body that was grounding it out- i didnt remember seein it when i checked but thats what he said it was..... the only thing i could think of it being is that its grounded out.... usin a different fuse wouldnt be the best idea you might end up fryin somethin cuz somethins obviously not right. best of luck! i know its a pian in the *** w/ no dash lights

 

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a small explanation would be helpful. Thanks for the diagrams too

any help would be much apreciated. thanks</TD></TR></TABLE>

Quick lesson... on each bulb (or load on the circuit) you have a power side and a ground side. Blowing the fuse is a short to ground on the power side. You're looking for continuity (zero resistance) to ground on the power side.

For each circuit you do the following, ignition and power off.
1) Remove the bulb.
2) With your mulitmeter set as a ohmmeter, measure the continuity to a good known ground point on both sides of the circuit at the bulb socket.

You should have one side with continuity (this is the ground side) and one side with very high resistance to ground, or no continuity (this is the power side).

Your problem circuit will have continuity to ground on both sides of the circuit. Trace down where this is shorting and you just solved the problem.

 

Happened to my DA also, ended up being a bad bulb grounding the **** out.

 

Mine on my DC had to do with the fuses. After installing my JDM HIDs I needed to up the low beams to 15A from 10A. After doing that, and making sure the stupid fuse was in correctly, the instrument panel stopped blowing. Mine would blow when the headlights were turned on, and also would blow when I would arm/disarm my alarm, since my fog lights and running lights would blink.

 

you might have a short somewhere... the reason your interior lights dont come on is because the dimmer you can put a new one but your gona blow it right when you turn on your car.... so you must find the short... or if u can try to put a new dimmer anywayz and check all the fuses and if there the right ones... but def a short

 

Thanks for all the suggestions and ideas. My lazy *** still has not tried any of them out yet. but i have nothing to do tomarrow and i will take care of this problem. i will post up what happened after im done with everything. Hopefully i fix the problem because that would be great to be able to drive my car at night again.

 

did you ever figure out the short?

 

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hey, still have yet to discover the problem. Time to take it somewhere. this sucks!

 

ok this happened to me tonight on my way home from work. It really sucks smelling like a bar and driving home with no tail light or dash lights.

Did anyone ever get an answer on what was up with 4DooRDiSzer's car?

 

I took the final step to fixing things...my appointment at the dealership is wednesday at 7am. So hopefully wednesday night it will de fixed and i can let people know what the hell happened...

 

Okay finally got my car fixed. Took it to the dealer, and they fixed it, but what idiots they are...

I have some city lights hooked up and hanging out in my high beams. Turns out that one of the wires grounded out or something cuz it got trapped and frayed or something on the housing, or high beam socket i guess. ALL is well now.

The also said whoever put the "civic" motor in my car did a bad job on the wiring...retard techs. Stock GSR motor, and i guess what made them think that, was the JDM badge i rivited onto the radiator support. it says "si" on it somewhere which made them think civic i guess. retards...