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smoke coming from dash, car wont start.
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shantelle
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Jan 2, 2014, 9:59 PM
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smoke coming from dash, car wont start.
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1992 Mitsubishi Diamante 3.0 200,000 mi,es 2 months ago while driving down road, smoke started coming out of vent. I pulled over pulled the newly installed cd player out and the electrical tape around a bunch of wires to the dash melted. Dash lights quit working when the headlights were on. continued to drive it for a month then it wouldnt start without jump. sparks were flying from starter. made sure no wires to alternator were showing. It quite sparking. still needed jump to start. A week later smoke started coming from dash,strong smell of electrical tape. car died. wont start. Got it towed home. took glovebox off and some of dash. there is no visible wires melted. what steps do i take to find the problem?
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Discretesignals
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Jan 3, 2014, 5:31 PM
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Dumb part is that the OP continued driving the vehicle even though smoke was coming out of the dash. Are you waiting for your car to catch on fire and burn to the ground, so you can collect insurance on it? Hopefully no one is in it if that happens. Since we volunteer our time and knowledge, we ask for you to please follow up when a problem is resolved.
(This post was edited by Discretesignals on Jan 3, 2014, 6:00 PM)
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nickwarner
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Jan 4, 2014, 7:10 AM
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Car is a 92 DS. I doubt there's any full coverage insurance on this thing. Its a death trap for free. Sad to see what might have been a decent running car destroyed to save a hundred or so on getting a CD player put in it. I have a friend with the exact same car that has over 400,000 miles on it. Getting harder to find parts but he is still driving it.
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Discretesignals
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Jan 4, 2014, 11:12 AM
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400K? Is that on the original engine? Since we volunteer our time and knowledge, we ask for you to please follow up when a problem is resolved.
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nickwarner
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Jan 6, 2014, 7:16 AM
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Yes it is, surprisingly.
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