My car has all sorts of electrical problems. For starters, no interior lights work. My antenna always goes down when I turn the radio on and up when I turn it off so I get horrible reception. My clock resets every time I open the door if I open the door before shutting off the ignition. My seat belt light always flickers, even if my seatbelt is on. I'm sure theres other things but I can't remember them right now. Anyways, what I'm really concerned about is that one of my warning lights is gona try to come on but knowing all the other probs with the warning lights, it might not. Plus, I want the interior lights dangit! heh. Anyways, I was wondering if you guys thought it was a fuse or what? And do you know where theres like a map to tell what fuses are what there? I got the owners manual and the haynes manual and neither of them say anything about which is which. Should I just start pulling all the fuses and checking them? Also, someone else told me that its probably a bad ground. I'm not a very good electrician, infact, that was the worst chapter of any of the in physics, could someone please explain to me how and where I check for bad grounds?

 

mine has problems like that out the *** so now I"m redoing everything! It got bad enough to where my car wouldn't even start. of course there is a viper alarm factory alarm guages out the ***. I don't know what I"m going to to either.

 

oh yeah, I just remempered... Also my shift up indicator light comes on even when I'm in 5th. So its telling me to shift up when there no other gear to shift too (besides reverse)

 

Is this an S5? If it is, the lights and clock are related. You most likely blew the "room" fuse.

 

nope S4

 

Well, go check all your fuses. If none of them are blown I'd say you've got a lot of work ahead of you.

 

The case to my fuse box is gone, anyone know where I can get like a diagram to show me what fuses are what?

 

BTW, I ment the cover to the box, not the whole box

 

Regarding the antenna - Does the car still have the original stereo unit, or is it an aftermarket stereo? If it's an aftermarket, it sounds like the installer didn't realize that on these cars, the antenna relay has to be grounded for the antenna to go up. That's the reverse of most cars. It's easy to fix. (Well, not that hard, anyway.) You'll have to add a relay to provide the ground when the radio is turned on. You can probably find the diagram here using the search function.

 

yea my '88 SE does that crap too. Lately every once in a while the radio will completely lose power then click right back on. Its retarded.

 

HA! Someone gave me a diagram showing what fuses were what and I simply replaced the room fuse and now the interior lights work as well as the clock, 2 down, 9843075983475 more to go! hehe j/k

 

you could try un hooking the stock security system, those things can cause lots of problems all over the car, if nothing changes just plug it back in. Its on the passenger side up under the dash, can be tough to get to.

 

The stock security system has nothing to do with any of the problems he has outlined. It doesn't directly effect any of those things.