Led lights 99ws6
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Led lights 99ws6 Need some help. I've recently installed interior and exterior led bulbs. I've never had an issue prior when I only had a few leds installed. I went to take the car out and made it out of garage into driveway and a fuse popped. I lost my gauges. I've tried a larger fuse and same thing. Before I remove every led has anyone experienced this issue and is there anything else I can or need to do instead of using normal bulbs?
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First, NEVER use a larger fuse when the original blows - not unless you would enjoy watching your car go up in smoke.
Second, exactly which interior bulbs did you replace with LEDs? The exterior bulbs would never cause the symptoms you describe so that narrows it down to interior. A primary suspect might be the dome light - I've heard of weird problems with some LED bulbs there (basically because LEDs provide almost no resistance to current flow). An easy way to check would be to remove that bulb (or put the original incandescent bulb back) and see if the (original rating) fuse stops blowing.
Second, exactly which interior bulbs did you replace with LEDs? The exterior bulbs would never cause the symptoms you describe so that narrows it down to interior. A primary suspect might be the dome light - I've heard of weird problems with some LED bulbs there (basically because LEDs provide almost no resistance to current flow). An easy way to check would be to remove that bulb (or put the original incandescent bulb back) and see if the (original rating) fuse stops blowing.
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