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Old 10-03-2012, 07:23 PM
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possible short???

ok so my girl has a 2007 chevy cobalt lt i believe. base of the base. not even automatic locks or windows. well anyways, so her driver's side blinker started clicking rapidly one day. which i know a bulb can cause to happen. well then a lil bit after that happeend she completely lost her tail lights as well as her dash lights. so i searched for the issue and found that those problems are linked to the park amp (15amp, under the hood center fuse box area) blowing. so sure enough when i check it was blown. well i replaced that fuse with the spare and then like 2 weeks later same thing happend. her blinker went rapid again but then in a matter of hours the dash lights went out. so i swapped the fuse again. anyone happen to have any idea what this could be linked to? or have this issue? wanna avoid taking it in if we can.
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bump. no one?
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Possibility of wrong bulb has been installed? Some bulbs can draw more power, I've seen it happen.

If not then yes, you clearly have a short somewhere which blows the fuse. probably a pinched wire then has become unsheathed. A pinched wire with a few strands cut can lower the current flow which would cause the car to think it has a burnt bulb.

Check the bulb first and make sure its the right type of bulb.
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Haven't changed the bulb at all from factory
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