So I was messing with my lights because one of my "halo rings" on my projectors blew out. So I'm working on it and I had everything prewired to make sure it worked and it did. So I turned off the lights and messed with things so the LEDs would look a little better. And I turned the lights on again and everything worked and as I'm walking back to turn them off, the headlights shifted (wasn't installed, just kinda sitting there) and I heard a slight "pop" sound (I think positive and negative wires touched) and now none of my exterior lights with the exception of my headlights and middle tail light work. What happened? Did I blow a fuse? If so, how do I fix it and which fuse is it?

 

pull the fuse box and check to see which one it is, replace it after checking..

 

How do I tell which one it is? And where do I get replacement fuses?

 

yea, you shorted the wires together......check fuses in fuse block, see what's blown. Make sure and fix the wiring before you put a new fuse in, or you'll just pop it again


pull out the fuses, probably labeled for lights.....there will be a few, pull em out and see which ones look blown. The inside will probably be discoloed, and the metal will be seperated in it. You can get new fuses at pep-boys, autozone, etc.

 

running lights fuse sounds like to me

 

when fuses blow the insides seperate if there are 2 pieces of metal inside rather than 1 its blown.

 

I pulled the DRL fuse and it sounds like what you just described. I'll grab a pic and post it in a sec to show you what I'm looking at...

 

arent there unused fuses in our fuse boxes? they are labeles on the back of the fuse box i think. unless im thinking of another car haha

 

Here's the fuse. The red arrow is pointing to the metal that I assume you guys are all talking about...



I think there is. I swear I've seen random fuses laying around somewhere. Unless I"m just thinking of my old car haha

 

its not the DRL fuse its probably the parking lamp fuse... its under the hood as well. I had this problem.... none of gauges will light up either

yes there are they are on the right side of fuse box under the hood, and there are also 1 or in the box in the passenger side interior

 

^^Fixed. You are correct, sir.

Lesson learned... gravity>me

 

I have some extra fuses in my garage! but that brings absolutely nothing to this discussion!

 

^^Especially since it's fixed haha. Well I'm sure in the next few days I'll have some extra ones too

 

Your the second person i helped with this problem beside my self... as soon as i seen that your lights were out i knew what it was... lol

 

^^Thanks man, I appreciate it. I was scared as hell when it first happened because I immediately thought worst case scenario and I thought I killed the car haha. But good to know in case something ever happens again.