leaving work tonight, turned car and lights on go to drive off, no dash lights. only P R N D 3 2 1 lights are working, look at fuses under dash they all fine. look at light fuses under bonnet, one is blown. left one, 2nd from the top. change it, it blows. change to stronger one, it blows. get a mate to follow me to servo. change it again, it blows. check my tail lights, none. take bulbs out, both left and right are blown. change them, change fuses, fuse blows again. kick the front bar really really hard. think i scratched it. put in 30 amp fuses, still blow. im like wtf! this is doin my head in. crack the sads smash bonnet down, get in car, race home thru the s-bends. now its got me ****ed as to what the problem could be. any suggestions helpful. cheers.

p.s. cars a 96 TE Altera.

Puff Dogg.

nope, if anything i've taken stuff out. all my stereo is out cept for headunit, but thats all been out for weeks. it has happened once before, but when i changed the fuse it was fine. massive surge that took out 2 of my mrv-1507 amps, but i did have the remote wire connected to tail lights :doubt: but thats all taken out now. will try again tonite after i give car a good thrashing, and see what happens. gotta drive to portland on sunday thats my main concern.

Was it or did it rain that night? If it did, could be water collecting somewhere and shorting
out some exposed wiring which was left behind due to the removal of your stereo gear.

didnt rain, i wash my car pretty frequently anyway so im not sure, as for the relay.... well. my mechanic was lookin at buying a magna, and its lights werent working. he asked if he could borrow my relays, turns out thatt wasnt the problem. he did put them back and they worked fine, this was about 3 weeks ago. you think maybe somethings come loose in one? cheers for all your help too.

yeah i trust the mechanic, used to work with him, where are the relays and what do they look like? im no auto elec so i dunno what im lookin at...

Just a word of advice, dont change fuses for larger fuses, they are there for a reason, if your fuses keep blowing it is indicative of a short circuit somewhere. If you up the fuse then more current is going to your cars electrics than it can handle.

Auto elec may be your best point of call.

Peace

Tim

cheers. and off my break i go and back to work. damn ocean grove and its stupid tourists.