Tail Lamp Fuse Blowing..

[SRdS14]

this may sound kinda dumb..but my fuse to my tail lamps keeps blowing under my steering column...i know that usually means a bad ground or something somewhere, but anyone else had this problem?? it keeps blowing every 2 days or so...also, my gauge cluster lighting is going out when it does this too. probably on the same fuse...

~Scott

[bj180sx]

do you have an alrm on the car. if so check the wires going to it b/c 99% of the time that is the problem. If not just check the grounds.

[topless@vabeach]

Im at work so I couldnt pull up the pictures of your car but if you have a wing on your car with the brakelight on the wing check the wirring where it goes from the trunk lid into the car. Mine was pinched there and shorting to ground everytime I hit a pothole or a rough road.

[SRdS14]

na..i think it may have something to do with the gauges in my gauge pod...not sure, i'm gonna look at it today

[blackbeauty240]

any time you have a circuit that grounds before the load you will blow the fuse. are your gauges, instrument panel, and tail lights on the same circuit?

[mattlord42]

Okay, I don't know if it is the same on the S14 as the S13 but a couple of us had this problem in our '90s after swapping stereos. The problem there was that there was a red wire with blue stripe in the harness that tested as a ground but when you used it as your stereo ground it would blow the taillight/gauge cluster fuse. The solution there was just to make a new ground. Just might be something to check if you just swapped head-units.

Matt

[SRdS14]

na...i have had my stereo in for over a year. it just started doing it out the blue. weird huh??