ok so what fuse/relay blew??? the speedometer reads 0 km, and the odometer is totally blank..
the service thing reads "Pontiac systems normal" and it always used to say "F lamp out"(even though it wasnt),, so somethings wrong.. i think something blew when i was honking my horn today for a long time....
HELP.......
what controls the digital dash, horn, antenna and trunk pop??????
could all of these fuses blew out???

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ok, i found the fuse, #11, it controls these things..
i tried to replace it and it sparks and blows out,, so whats wrong?

[This message has been edited by ron rizzotti (edited July 08, 2001).]

 

Since it started when you were blowing the horn, I'd start there by disconnecting it and installing another fuse. If it blows then unplug the trunk. Insert another fuse and try again. If it pops then plug the trunk back in and go to the antenna. Something in that curcuit is going to ground and blowing the fuse.

You can make a short tester instead of blowing fuses to see if you fixed the problem. Get a headlight and connect some wires to it. Put some spade connectors on the other end and insert them where the fuse goes. The headlight will take the load of a short and be very bright. When you find and remove the cause of the short, the headlight will go dim.

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well for some reason there was a dime at the bottom of my cigarette lighter... i guess it was shorting things out..
i took it out, put in a new fuse and everything is cool.
hopefully the dime was causing the problem.

 

You never mentioned a cigirette lighter in the curcuit or I would have suggested that as the first thing to check. More fuses are blown because of a shorted out socket than anything else.

Now the big question is. How did the dime get in there? Someone wanted to blow the fuse.