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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 02:35 AM
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Everything just blewout

Ok heres the deal. One day i was drivin my 1991 Firebird and then bam everything stopped working. It runs but now my horn doesn't work, no dome light, no power locks, and no remote hatch button. I replaced the fuse but it blew right away. A while before this the horn went from loud to quiet then this happened. I was just curious if theres any common problems that could help me. Thanks.
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 10:39 AM
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you have a short somewhere. you said something about the horn acting up before this happened, id check the wires under the hood first for the horn, than go from there. have fun tracing wires, its a pain in the ***.
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 09:49 PM
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Check the cig lighter, it tends to be a common problem with these cars and the age that they are. If you can take the wire off the back of the socket and see if the fuse blows when put back in. This has happened to me and a few people i know that have 3rd gens.
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Old Jul 29, 2003 | 11:33 PM
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Thanks for the help. It turned out to be the cigarette lighter. I looked in adn found a penny in the bottom that was shorting it all out and just took it out and now everythings fine. The horn turned out to be one of the two was broke. Thanks for all the help. Now I don't have to worry about not being able to honk
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Old Jul 30, 2003 | 05:06 AM
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replace it with the loudest one you can find, when the horn in my jeep did not get peoples attn. i added a horn from a 78 nova. the only charokie with a two tone horn, YEA. gonna do the sam to my firebird pretty quick
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