serious electrical issue

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

okay after i finished my stereo install now my interior lights, like my dash and A/C lights wont work as well as my taillights.. I replaced the fuse in it and as soon as i turned them on again the fuse blew. It is the fuse for the taillights which is also for the dimmer lights. Now i grounded one of my amps to the same one that the taillights are grounded too, could this be causing the fuse to blow?

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[Newport 10+ year member]

you should ground to the body of the car thats not sharing anything

 

[patrick1202 10+ year member]

eh um were did you run your remote from??? and were is your power ran from batt taped into another wire what??

 

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

its a pioneer avic-n2 has a seperate remote amp wire that i ran, i also did a standard 4 gauge power wire directly off the battery to the amps. I will look tomorrow and ground it to another area.

 

[pensacol 10+ year member]

Did you install a new H/U also? If so check the illumination wire. If you have it grounded somewhere, it will blow the fuse everytime you turn your lights on.

 

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

okay i disconnected the plug from the stereo that had the illumination wire on it and it still blew so i have to pick up more fuses but next i am going to see if i remove the amp replay plug to see if that fixes the problem, after that i have no idea what to check.

 

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

anyone? i need help here, i disconnected my whole stereo from the car and the fuse still blows as soon as i turn on the lights, someones gotta know!

 

[audioatg 10+ year member]

Is it a ford vehicle. Possible its somthin to do with not your audio system an its just one of thoses things that goes bad. If it is a ford. Might be the headlight switch going bad. Take it out check the wire harness for it. Looks burnt or anything that could be it.

Okay So its your tail lights an interior this might take a while. But before you plug the new fuse in. Take all the light bulbs out. Tail lights all the Interior lights. What ever is connected to that fuse. After you do that put the fuse in. Now If it dont blow. Start one buy one putting the bulbs back in. An checking the fuse each time. When the fuse blows at least then you know what circut the short is on. trace the wire find whats bad.

 

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

its a GM, pontiac trans am. I was thinking it might possibly be the switch also, i will have to check.

 

[audioatg 10+ year member]

Ahhhhh. Check that mulitfunction switch. Many many of problems with that. Your turn headlights is all one thing right on the steering column??

 

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

yeah i will swap it out tomorrow and see if that does it.

 

[audioatg 10+ year member]

Sounds good man. Let me know what happen.

 

[tacobandit 10+ year member]

okay replaced the switch tonight and no dice, still blows right away, would it possibly blow the fuse if one or more of the taillights are bad? I know it has to be the taillights now otherwise the dimmer fuse would blow first instead of the taillight fuse. I guess tomorrow i will check my bulbs.

 

[93EXT 10+ year member]

hrm my friends TA did the exact same thing, can't for the life of me remember what it was ( was like 9 years ago ) :/

I'll ask him if I see him. think his was an 87 or so.

 

[audioatg 10+ year member]

Okay So its your tail lights an interior this might take a while. But before you plug the new fuse in. Take all the light bulbs out. Tail lights all the Interior lights. What ever is connected to that fuse. After you do that put the fuse in. Now If it dont blow. Start one buy one putting the bulbs back in. An checking the fuse each time. When the fuse blows at least then you know what circut the short is on. trace the wire find whats bad.