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Old May 3, 2004 | 07:50 PM
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Car: 1990 firebird
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fuse keeps blowing out

okay so my number 11 fuse which is my interior lights, horn, power locks..etc.. keeps burning out, this happened saturday, my father was hitting the hatch switch without putting the car in park, an impatient person he is he was slamming the **** till i guess he fried some wires. now everytime i put a fuse in there it wont last a minute before it dies, where can i start looking for problems? , i can care less about my interior lights i really need my horn back
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Old May 3, 2004 | 08:03 PM
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i kept blowing my accessories fuse when i pushed the powr dorr lock button, was just a crossed wire ,but i dunno about yours, try tracing the pop trunk wires and maybe disconnect the pop trunk motor?
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Old May 3, 2004 | 08:38 PM
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hm keep in mind i installed an alarm about two weeks ago, i had them connect my horn is there any chance that the alarm is burning out the fuse ?
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Old May 4, 2004 | 01:34 AM
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yes, that _exatly_ what eas blowing my fuse. the alarm to the door lock switch. i took it back and they fixed it in 15 mins.
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Old May 4, 2004 | 02:34 PM
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ha this is funny and embarassing, i had a quarter in my cigarter lighter , good thing the shop didnt charge me haha,

btw ...i didnt go for that i just happend to be there since i was getting my idler arm done they had me wait like an hr so i figured i might as well tell them whatsup with my fuse blowing out
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Old May 4, 2004 | 03:52 PM
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haha about the quarter
... you didnt hit a pole or run over a curb to bend that idler arm did you?
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Old May 4, 2004 | 07:54 PM
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actually it was more like loose , the guy was rattling the **** out of it when he showed me it, looked in bad shape too, prob prev owner, i only had the car for 2 months now, and i noticed this problem the second day i had her on the road . ps lets hope no one else reads this post
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