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Headlight fuses both blown, no reason...

Postby Bling » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:17 pm

Search done, no thread was regarding headlights fuses blowing so here goes....on ae111 trueno

girlfriends driving along, then for no reason, headlights dimmed, so I checked it out, and I found both left and right fuses for main headlights fried, but park lights (secondary bulbs in headlights) work fine.

replacing fuse just blows when full headlights turned on at lights stalk inside.

anyone had this problem? No modifications to the car at all, just blew both of them for no apparent reason.

Ideas?
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Postby gepsk8 » Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:24 pm

check bulbs? sounds like a short to me.
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Postby Cakky » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:11 pm

sounds like bulbs to me
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Postby Bling » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:00 pm

sweet cheers, will give that a go, I just couldn't think why they would blow the fuses if it was bulbs. will update when tested
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Postby rwd_mayhem » Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:46 pm

side note: where is the fuse box in an ae111? specifically for the tail lights? i know theres one in the engine bay, are there any more?
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Postby postfach » Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:14 pm

rwd_mayhem wrote:side note: where is the fuse box in an ae111? specifically for the tail lights? i know theres one in the engine bay, are there any more?


took me ages to find that, i ended up having to ask on ts too :P its behind the coin tray thing under the steering wheel, pop that tray out and voila!
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