it happened like 2 hours ago i left it at my friends house and drove his mustang home to pick it up tomorrow.. has this happened to anyone? where can i locate the fuse/relay?

 

sounds like a fuse, just check em out.

 

could it be one of those big ones beside the battery?

 

could be the alternator.

 

!!!!! same **** happened to me!@!!! been in limp mode ever since!!!! dont know wtf is up im stumped ive tryed everything..its about time for a real mechanic so he can charge me 100 dollars for staring at the car...

 

the headlights and brake lights still worked and the cluster lights too..

 

it has to be a fuse under the dash

 

solution: BLOWN FUSE @ under-dash fusebox

 

its the fuse im a 100% sure its the fuse since the same exact thing happend to my dads truck when I was driving it a couple of weeks ago. Put it the new fuse and has not had any problems since.

 

the same thing happened to my girlfriends 95 civic sedan. it was the back up light fuse. under the dash.

 

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Ha, at the shop we charge $65/hr - But we hardly ever stick to that & we don't rack up 5 hours if it takes us 5 hours to find a problem...because that would be jsut plain gay...

But yeah, that sounds familiar, my mom's brake sensor fuse keeps blowing so she couldn't get it into reverse (auto), so what'd teh shop do? After it blew like 3 fuses they jsut ripped the whole auto/reverse saftey switch out of the shifter assembly... She steps on the brake, nothing happens, doesn't disengage cruise control, NOTHING, brake sensor fuse is blown, they didn't do **** about it...

I'll have to look at it when I get some time - but yeah, be weary of what shop u go to as mechanics have a tendency to screw people :-( Gives everybody a bad name...

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Did the lights fluxuate at all (dash speedo/tach lights) before everything died? Did it look like close encounters of the third kind in your guage cluster? (usually signs of alternator, but then ur battery woudln't charge and u would notice it real fast....) Sounds liek a fuse or relay, I didn't know there was one in the fuse box that controlled the whole guage cluster, but pple say it's there so I would start there :-\

 

if you find that all the fuses are good for some reason, take your cluster out and look at the back of the circuit board..look for anything that looks like a burn mark, you might have a short, this happened to me with my crx

 

the fuse that blew out on my car was the ecu fuse... umight wanna check that

 

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Ha, at the shop we charge $65/hr - But we hardly ever stick to that & we don't rack up 5 hours if it takes us 5 hours to find a problem...because that would be jsut plain gay...

But yeah, that sounds familiar, my mom's brake sensor fuse keeps blowing so she couldn't get it into reverse (auto), so what'd teh shop do? After it blew like 3 fuses they jsut ripped the whole auto/reverse saftey switch out of the shifter assembly... She steps on the brake, nothing happens, doesn't disengage cruise control, NOTHING, brake sensor fuse is blown, they didn't do **** about it...

I'll have to look at it when I get some time - but yeah, be weary of what shop u go to as mechanics have a tendency to screw people :-( Gives everybody a bad name...

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wow thats a general comment there " mechanics tend too screw people"

and why wouldnt u charge 5 hours if it took 5 hours? electrical problems and squeaks/rattles have no set flat rate time pay... sounds more like your shop has a financial advisory problem...

 

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wow thats a general comment there " mechanics tend too screw people"

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why? LoL, because believe it or not I have morals. I think of this one black guy...My dad was the head of the radiology department in catskill regional medical (hospital)..there was this black guy that kept coming in late, kept sayin his battery was dead, replaced the alternator, replaced the battery, my dad kept giving him leeway, but he claimed it kept going dead....so eventually my dad had it but instead of firing him like he should have and could have easily done (and most other radiology heads would have, especially a black guy when black people were really at a deficiency in the medical field...) he took the guy to his house, he jumped his car, he followed him to a mechanic he knew, and left hte car there... Now there must have been 5 mechanics that went over this car and couldn't find out what the problem was, just passed it out as an alternator or battery problem.. Turns out after pulling, testing, probing and checking, they found out that the dome light in the car was grounding out to the chassis, it was never on when the door was closed (worked fine) and everything seemed normal, but everytime he'd change the battery it'd ground out the battery through the damn dome light...

That poor black guy went through so much crap with different people not believing him.... Now my dad paid the bill, that was that, and the guy became a good friend of my dad's... Nobody believed his ***, everybody just labeled him as a "lazy ******" because he had to call a cab to work every other day.. Now he got charged up the *** for all the mechanics that replaced fuses, and his alternator, and his battery, and whatever else they claimed was the problem, and it took my dad's mechanic 1 hour to find it...but say it took 4 hours? Does that mean at a going rate of 70 dollars an hour he should be charged $280 for labor time and $5.99 for a roll of electrical sodder? No, if it's me, and some **** happens like that, I'd only charge like 40 or 50 bucks for everything, because I want people to come back...I don't want to be labeled as a mech. with a stick up my *** that charges people by the book, setting up ratios for uncompleted hours to charge him the exact penny - it's just not worth it morally to me..

So that's my answer to that....if it doesn't make sense..then it just varies from person to person.....sorry you can't understand :-\

 

ummmm can i take my car to you?