Electrical Disaster

[N1balla16]

I have had this problem for a few months now. My tail lamp fuse keeps blowing. When the problem first started it would blow then I would replace it and maybe a week later it would blow again. Well now it won't even make it out of the driveway with out blowing. I have spent hours trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The fuse controls the tail lamps and the interior dim lights. Well i have followed all the wires and tried to figure out where its grounding out at, but I have had no luck. I have put a new fuse in and turned the lights on so the tail lamps would work then jiggle the wires to see if I could get it to ground out anywhere. Still no luck. I know there is this cool little gadget that you can send a voltage through were the fuse plugs into the fuse box and take the scanner and it beeps where it finds the voltage grounding out. Does anybody have any ideas of what else I can do before I go pay someone to fix my car?

 

[luv2rallye]

See: http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1496998#post1496998

 

[N1balla16]

Hey thanks for the link. I tried searching around before and couldn't come up with much. Looks like that was the post I needed to find.

 

[blackbyrd]

I just fixed this Achieva the other day doing the same thing. Traced it back to light/turn signal switch on the dash.
That link should help you trace it out.

Good Luck!