ok so i jus bought this ef hatch the other day as a daily while my 04 undergoes a tsx swap. i pick this car up for $1500 w/ a clean body, no rust, good paint and low mile Si swap. car ran good and drove ok. some minor things needed attention.

i take the car to work (25 miles each way) for the first time. turns out the gauge cluster is a lil wacky. fuel gauge didnt work and speedo. i ran out of gas, while i was pulled over waiting for gas i figured id pull the cover and check things out. the speedo was unhooked, easy fix. put everything back on, get my gas and drive it home. im in the driveway now tinkering with it cuz the speedo was sittin on 10mph at a stop and the gas gauge was a lil high when i was on an empty tank. someone had clearly been in this cluster before....not very carefully i might add. so i reattach everything (car running the whole time) and next thing you know the four ways go out and now the flasher is buzzing and smoking. i yank it fast.

i lost all signal to the blinkers and my tach, temp, fuel gauge and what not. i go to the fuse panel under the hood and the fuse closest to the firewall and the passenger fender was blown. i put another one in and it blows immediately.....what could this be?

thanks all in advance

p.s. sorry for the long post but i wanted to be as descriptive as possible

 

sounds like a short in your wiring...!!!

 

yea i was thinkin that but the harness is new in the enginebay and the dash. im gonmna look into that tomorrow

 

is it a new harness from the dealer or a replacement from a donor car...!!!

 

replacement from a donor. i noticed that everything went out when i was reconnecting my hazard switch...possibly a short in the switch? my high/low beams and all still work.

i put a new turn flasher in and it fried it in like 2 seconds.

 

you probably have a short in the donor harness...remember the donor harness is over 18 years old and somewhere in there it might have a exposed wire grounding out...best bet would be to go through each wire and look for burnt and exposed wires

 

found and exposed wire that decided to melt itself to another wire...green w/ blk tracer and green...one was suffering from a lil bare spot that seems to have shorted out and molded the two into one. i removed it and taped everything up now im just waiting to see if the new relay lasts. and that will be about the shortest wire short in history lol. i hate wiring!

thanks for the help ill keep you posted.

leon

 

i had the same thing happen to my radiator fan wiring and i had to re-wire it and its been working great ever since...hopefully that solves your problem

 

ok so small update:

i put the new relay in after fixing the short. now i have 4 ways but no blinkers, tach, lights or fuel and temp gauges?!

 

check your fuses...you might of shorted them out with the previous problem...!!!

 

all fuses and relays in hood area and under dash are A OK

 

ttt....still lookin for answers

 

Do you have a DMM? I might be able to walk you through it.

 

dmm?