hey guys this is kind of hard and long to explain. something is really wrong with my car ok so here is the story:

so i buy my car 3 years ago.. everything was good. then 2nd year of having it in the ending of the summer.. around this time or year i was driving one night in the rain and all the sudden my wipers stopped working. so later on i find out the fuse popped. so i put a new fuse in and it pops it again. i try one more time and it lasted and i was thinking maybe a coincidence. so then it pops again and again.. finally realized i had a problem but my car was coming off the road so i didn't need to fix it right then. so it sat all winter and i put it on the raod again in may. the wipers worked for weeks. all the sudden popped a fuse. so i asked on here what you guys thought and you guys said it's most likely it's shorting out somewhere. so the other day i am messing around trying to find out what is wrong when i notice under my steering colum.. by my fuse box there is a bunch of wires all melted. so thinking my problem is in there.. i told my dad. so we wired my wipers to a toggle switch and a relay so it didn't burn out the switch. so now my wipers work. i work about a half hour away from my house. i drive to work in the rain.. made it there. just as we are pulling out to go home i'm starting my car, i hear a pop (kinda like a fuse) and then my starter stops trying to start my car. now when my car gets overly hot (i have a 160 degree thermostat and a 160 degree fan switch) when it gets around the tempature the cars run stock.. the car won't start. it has juice from the battery, but it doesn't crank over. do you guys think that my problem is where all the burnt wires are or do you guys think that something is wrong with my starter or something? oh also, when i heard the pop smoke started coming out of the fuse box area. i don't know wheather i should investigate more on the wiring in the fuse box or if my starting problem is something with other components?

 

ummm definatly fix your melted wires in the fuse box area and i think alot of your problems will go away .....not saying all will but you definatly wont burn your car up going down the road .....

 

what do you think could have melted them? when my father was hooking up the wipers the other day he stuck his fingers in the fuse box area to look at the wiepr fuse and he got burnt.. i had a buddy of mine (before i knew how to do anything) hook up these pedals and he put a wire from a power wire that is under there, to a switch, to the fuse box... do you think that oculd have made any problems?

 

Well, wiring is not something for a noob to be doing, no matter how simple it seems. What I would recommend is getting a wiring schematic of the cars electrical system, and finding out EXACTLY what wires are suppose to be there, and fix them. If you don't feel comfortable doing it, take it to a GM dealership and have it done right. This could mean the difference of having a bird running, or a bird burning to the ground.

 

its really hard to say what originally caused the problem but you need to replace all the burnt wires immediatly ....if it were me i would before you end up with a bigger mess that is..

 

i myself don't feel comfortable doing it but my father has been a mechanic for over 20 years. the thing with him is he is kind of sick of working on cars but if something really has to be done he will do it.. like my wipers, he didn't feel like findign out exactly what was qrong so he just hooked a switch, he knew i needed wipers but he didn't feel like finding the correct problem. my car doesn't start right now so something has to be fixed.

 

i think you need to start with rewiring the fuse panel where everything is burnt and then go from there