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95 toyota avalon tail lights keeps blowin my fuses
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chinito73
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Jun 8, 2008, 7:47 PM
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95 toyota avalon tail lights keeps blowin my fuses
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alright i got a 95 avalon xls the break lights use to come on when i activate my car alarm. now i checked my fuses under the steerin wheel and two fuses were blowed out they were 15's i kept replacing them...but now im startin to see that its not the fuse
i want to sell it but everyone keeps tellin me that an electric problem is very expensive to fix.. i found a diagram of my cars wiring but dont want to get in to that yet. how could i tell whats actually wrong with the tail lights its basically the back breaks... like when i press the breaks the fuses pop. i put a 20 fuse in the fuse box but it pop it to..i currently dont have nay fuses in. i also tryin checkin if it was fuses in the front (under the hood) but they seem fine to..takin them out and checkin if they were popped to. if you could help with this issue..im open to suggestions! thanks
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DanD
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Jun 9, 2008, 4:42 AM
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Re: 95 toyota avalon tail lights keeps blowin my fuses
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Looking for a short to ground causing fuses to blow can be a bit of search and rescue type of job.
You’ll have to remove portions of the circuit; starting with the bulbs and work towards the switch along the wiring harness until you find the problem. There’s no easy way for us to tell you how or where to look; you just keep looking through the wiring, switches, and bulbs anything that is connected to the circuit.
If by chance this is an aftermarket alarm system; maybe that might be a place to look first?
If you were to connect an old style sealed beam headlight, across the fuse box terminals where the fuse would normally be and step on the brake peddle, to close the switch, the headlight will light, if the unintentional short to ground is still there.
The headlight can handle the current flow and won’t hurt the circuit. When you find the short to ground and remove it, the headlight will go out.
Why you use a an older style sealed beam headlight is that it draws more power then what the brake light bulbs would; using up the power (voltage drop), again not hurting the remaining circuit.
Doing this saves on buying boxes and boxes of fuses.
Here’s a diagram showing a headlight connected to the fuse box, with the blown fuse removed.
Dan
Canadian "EH"
(This post was edited by DanD on Jun 9, 2008, 4:53 AM)
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