Electrical problems, maybe fuses?
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Electrical problems, maybe fuses?
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?
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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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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Originally posted by Skabidat
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.
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.
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