Brake Lights Fuse Keep Burning - SRT Forums

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 12:13 PM

The brake lights fuse keep burning up on me. I changed it 6 times now and each time it burns up when I start the car up or use the brake.

Any ideas to why that's happening, and how to fix it?

Flame · 06-17-2009, 12:21 PM

Why it's happening? You have a short somewhere is my guess.

How to fix it? I would look around for a wire that doesn't look right. Possibly one that is stripped or something.

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 12:29 PM

If it happens right away it should be an easy short to find.

I would disconnect one component at a time until it quits blowing. That will get you started.

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 12:31 PM

What wires I should be looking at?

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 12:32 PM

Check your brake lights first. (If one doesn't work, then we obviously have a place to start)

Check the sockets to see if any of the bulbs are melting into the socket, etc.

Disconnect one brake lamp at a time.

STart there.

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 12:36 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by thepowertowin

Check your brake lights first. (If one doesn't work, then we obviously have a place to start)

Check the sockets to see if any of the bulbs are melting into the socket, etc.

Disconnect one brake lamp at a time.

STart there.

Already did that. Also, changed the bulbs just in case. The problem is that they would work sometimes for a while and then at one point the fuse is burnt, not sure when or why.

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 12:38 PM

what is the fuse# that is popping?

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 12:43 PM

15, the brake lights.

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 12:51 PM

is it fuse 23, a 15a?

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 12:56 PM

15 a.

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 12:58 PM

The abs controller is on there too... have you disconnected that?

there is a connector after the brake switch and before all the lighting that you could disconnect to see which side of hte circuit the problem is on

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 01:09 PM

Is the abs controller in the same fuse box?

Where is the brake switch?

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 01:13 PM

bake switch is by the brake pedal.

abs controller is separate, connected to the abs pump

-EV1L 4- · 06-17-2009, 01:30 PM

The wires hasn't been disconnected, ever.

thepowertowin · 06-17-2009, 01:31 PM

no, i don't think disconnecting hte brake switch will help anything... I'm just thinking if the abs doesn't do it, there is a connector between the brake switch and the rest of the systme that you could disconnect to verify which side it's on... but there is still quite a few possibilities.