I'm still trying to figure out what the hell is blowing my tail fuse and causing my headlight motors, parking lamps, and instrument lamps to not work. (Fuse Panel Layout) I got the wiring diagram from Pete (diagram) and it looks like I should be following the brown wire connected to the headlight switch. It's connected to the 5A instrument lamp fuse, and powers every parking lamp. I went out and removed every exterior bulb, and took out the 5A fuse so as to rule out a short inside the car. Still no luck. There were 2 sockets that looked suspect, and in need of replacement, so I cut them out, and it still shorts every time I put the parking lights on. Is there any way it could be the parking lamp part of the switch shorting the fuse out? Or is the switch set up that if the parking lamp part was messed up, so would the headlamp part too?

My turn signals still work, all the bulbs are fine (with the exception of the 2 I cut out). If I put the fuse in w/ all the lights off, the motors will close, but once I put on just the parking lamps (or the headlamps for that matter) the fuse blows. I'm pretty sure it shouldn't be the headlight motors b/c the fuse will blow if I put on just the parking lights. Can anyone take a look at that wiring diagram and see if they can find something I'm missing??

 

Welcome to hell. Unfortunately, you probably have a wire that has had it's sheathing rubbed off and it's making contact with metal.

If you eliminated the obvious (bulbs, fuses) then you may want to start tracing lines to make sure they're all good. Next would be to replace the switch with the hopes that it's something internal.

 

Same thing happenned to me last night when I put in a new stereo, going to check my wires in a few, sounds like you got a short, do any wiring lately? If not its gonna be a biatch to try and trace that short

 

I have to agree... did you hook up a stereo lately? Just helped a neighbor that had the same problem, turns out that the illumination/dimmer wire looks just like a ground when the lights are off. I have seen several people ground the stereo to this wire, as soon as you turn on the lights *blam* fuse blows.
If not that then pull out the ohm meter and ohm the wire(s) in the sockets, ground one lead to the car then probe each wire, if one is shorting you will see it on the meter. You have to have all the bulbs out or you will be reading through the other bulbs in the same circuit to ground.

Chris

 

I am having the same problem. Did you ever find out what was wrong with your car? If so what? I do not want to have to take my car in to the shop... Nlurch80@hotmail.com