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Old Aug 7, 2003 | 07:47 PM
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instrament panel fuse, the 10amp one, blew 4 times today.
dont know why? can someone please help
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Old Aug 7, 2003 | 09:12 PM
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unhooked all my stereo equipment, and blew another fuse, as
soon as I turn the key to ignition it blows the fuse, I
tried sticking a 20amp just to test, as soon as I turned the
ignition it blew that one too can anyone give me any
ideas????
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Old Aug 8, 2003 | 09:45 AM
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what fuse is it?
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Old Aug 8, 2003 | 11:10 AM
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Well, it seems apparent that if you blow a 20A fuse upon turning the ign. switch, that you have a short somewhere. (Beeler, it appears that he's saying the instrument cluster fuse) You didn't do anything to your gauges, did you? Changing color, illumination, adding aftermarket guages with leads to power...
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Old Aug 8, 2003 | 02:36 PM
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Doh, first 3 words. heh. Are you sure you got it all unhooked? Do you have an aftermarket head unit?
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Old Aug 8, 2003 | 06:27 PM
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Did the problem occur all of the sudden. Or after a change was made to the car?
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Old Aug 8, 2003 | 06:58 PM
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Would you happen to have a shift light or anything else spliced into any wires running into the dash?

There was a guy on SLP's board having difficulty and it ended up being his ASR logic reverse module that was shorting out behind the dash.
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Old Aug 14, 2003 | 11:21 PM
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turned out to be a short under the dash, to the daytime running lamp box, took about 6 hours to find and 10min to fix, wire was rubbing against a piece of metal and ended up making metal to metal contact, heat shrink and electrical tape will stop that

thanks for trying to help guys, have a good evening
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