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99 Accord small light/interior light help!!!!

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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 01:01 PM
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Default 99 Accord small light/interior light help!!!!

Alrite so heres the deal, I was trying to fix the light in the glove box and took it all apart and what not. Alrite so im thinking that the little glove box connecter must've touched something because when I tried to turn on the light on the car. The small light and the interior lights did not turn on anymore, so of course its the fuse that got burned out. So I replace the fuse with a brand new one and the wires for the glove box light start to smoke so I quickly take the fuse out and try not to catch my car on fire.

So I fix the glove box light and make sure nothing is touching it and now when I put the new small light/interior light fuse back in the lights turn on and stay on even when I have all the lights and the car off, the small lights still stay on. So now when I have the new fuse in the fuse box the lights stay on and do not turn off. I really dont know what happend im thinking a lighting relay or something must've fired when the glove box light wires started to smoke and melt together. I was wondering maybe something like this happend to someone else and could help me out in any way!!!!!
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 01:10 PM
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Default Re: 99 Accord small light/interior light help!!!! (enemysquad)

You are on the right track with your thinking, most people think that when you turn on a switch that the now 'closed' switch gives power to a system. Many systems are ground side controlled, when you turn on a switch you are actually giving the system a ground instead of power. So your melted wires or wire is grounded, power is always there and its just looking for a ground that would normally be given by the switch but now the wire is shorted. Did I mention you have a short on the ground side of the bulb, start digging.
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 01:19 PM
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So no idea where I should look? Cause im kinda stuck, car electrical is like brain surgery to me.
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 01:22 PM
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Yes follow the same wires you already repaired, get into the harness and fix the short OR find out where the wire starts and just run new wires and bypass the short, this would be easier.
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