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- From: twc@svcs1.UUCP (Ted Chan)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Door/vanity lights won't come on
- Message-ID: <659@svcs1.UUCP>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 03:28:44 GMT
- References: <15532@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
- Lines: 14
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- From article <15532@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, by ccm038@rosie.ucdavis.edu (Jason Yan (can cook)):
- >
- > A while back, the fuse for my door lights, vanity lights, trunk blew
- > out. I tried replacing the fuse with the correct one, but each time,
- > it would blow out on contact. Am I supposed to switch the vanity
- > lights to the OFF position before sticking in the fuse? Or is
- > there a short somewhere that I should look for? It's an 86.5
- ^^^^^
- That's the likely culprit. Use an ohm-meter to confirm the
- diagnosis. If you replace a blown fuse and the replacement blows,
- you should definitely assume that you have a problem that needs
- repair beyond further fuse replacements.
-
- --twc@legal.uucp
-