car shuts off when i hit the fog lights, turn signal or horn
09-13-2005, 07:16 PM
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car shuts off when i hit the fog lights, turn signal or horn ok, i am not sure if this is the right place for this but....
i am having a really weird and bad problem with my 99 z28.
when i turn the car on the right headlight is very dim and when the lights are turned on, if i hit the horn, hit the turn signal or hit the fog lights on it will shut the car off. i tried replacing the fuses for the headlights fog lights and horn but no luck, i really have no idea what would be doing it but i believe there might possibly be a short somewhere or something, i have no idea...
if someone could pleasssse help me asap i have no idea what would do this
i am having a really weird and bad problem with my 99 z28.
when i turn the car on the right headlight is very dim and when the lights are turned on, if i hit the horn, hit the turn signal or hit the fog lights on it will shut the car off. i tried replacing the fuses for the headlights fog lights and horn but no luck, i really have no idea what would be doing it but i believe there might possibly be a short somewhere or something, i have no idea...
if someone could pleasssse help me asap i have no idea what would do this
09-13-2005, 07:49 PM
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hes right you do have a short somewhere, maybe try and pull all thoes fuses to your lights and blinkers n stuff and see if the car will shut off, then plug one back in at a time and turn that acc. on and see which one has the problem in the wiring, that might get you a lil closer to finding the problem. i dunno, just a thought.
09-13-2005, 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by vodas00ss
hes right you do have a short somewhere, maybe try and pull all thoes fuses to your lights and blinkers n stuff and see if the car will shut off, then plug one back in at a time and turn that acc. on and see which one has the problem in the wiring, that might get you a lil closer to finding the problem. i dunno, just a thought.
tried that, no luck do far, this sucks
i did wiring work about 2 months ago and had this problem but fixed it by just replacing a fuse but no luck this time.....
09-13-2005, 09:13 PM
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ok, clean your battery terminals, and make sure they are getting good contact, check the grounds for the ignition and dash gauges (you can pull the gauges out in about 10 minutes and the grounds are easy to find, black wires)
make sure they are all connected securely to bare metal.
dont drive it until you can fix it, you can cause a limitless amount of problems with it like it is.
make sure they are all connected securely to bare metal.
dont drive it until you can fix it, you can cause a limitless amount of problems with it like it is.
09-14-2005, 02:57 AM
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i just recently chased down a short. that aint no fun at all.
if you do look under the dash or whever, look at areas that the harness or wires may be rubbing against a metal brace or the like. my short was blowing my guage fuse every once in awhile then got to the point where it would blow the second the key was turned on, making the car impossible to start.
my short was the pink wire coming off the tcs switch, it was shorting out against the metal brace that the console bolts to under the hvac controls.
if you do look under the dash or whever, look at areas that the harness or wires may be rubbing against a metal brace or the like. my short was blowing my guage fuse every once in awhile then got to the point where it would blow the second the key was turned on, making the car impossible to start.
my short was the pink wire coming off the tcs switch, it was shorting out against the metal brace that the console bolts to under the hvac controls.
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09-25-2005, 01:35 AM
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well thanks everyone for the help, today i finally figured out what it was, the wiring harness where the horn fog lights headlights and turn signal's all go through the main bumper in the front of the car right between the radiator and headlight i guess.... you could say. well that harness was rubbing against the metal whole that it sits on and was causing a short event tho it was a very tiny piece of wire touching, but i fixed it and everything works fine thankfully.
