Last week my Hi-Beams turned on and wouldn't turn off even if the car was off. So i took the fuses out and took it to Chevy. They said the after market headlights burned out my fuse box, seems unlikely right? Anyway, they replaced the fuse box which cost me $830 bucks. I'm just wondering, does anyone know if the headlights could cause that problem with the fuse box? I mean, if the head lights burned out the fuse box wouldn't the headlights stop working completely instead of turning on. And if the headlights did cause the problem any chance I could get reimbursed from the head light company?

Second question, when they replaced the fuse box they disconnected my interior lighting which is fine, didn't really expect them to reconnect it, but now I'm afraid to hook it back up incase it burns out the fuse box costing me $800 bucks again. Can anyone lay my fears to rest? I mean, isn't that what fuses are for? To keep crap like this from happening... then again is it a good deal of lighting, 8 neon tubes total and over 130LED's.

Any and all suggestions/comments would be welcome.

 

That situation honestly doesn't make much sense to me, but with electrical parts, almost anything is possible.

I would say the safest way to hook up any additional lighting that you install is to go straight to the battery and make sure there is an inline fuse within 12 inches of the positive post of the battery.

That way you aren't doubling the load on anything else in the car that isn't meant to be, and if anything blows while it's set up this way, the only thing that can blow is the inline fuse.

 

I'm pretty sure that chevy just say an reason to blame me and took it.

Now, if i run the lights right to the positive of the battery then the lights will be on all the time right? I'll need some kind of toggle switch i guess. Thanks for you help!

Any other suggestions would be awesome too though

 

thats a pile of light on that circuit, deffinitly can cause a problem. id run a seperate circuit from the battery post and if you want them to turn on when you open the door use a relay.

 

Yehp...relay or switch. If you want the lights on whenever the car is on, wire up the solenoid of the relay to the wiper fuse and there you go.

Running all of that wire would suck ass but its the right way to do it and you shouldn't see another issue like that.

 

Well most of the LED's, about 30 a door are only one when the doors are open. The rest is just on when the car is on. I gotta look into running a new hot wire once the weather is above 20 degrees. Right now it's just dark and cold in my car. Oh well, thanks all!