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Sash_332
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:29 pm

Hello there fine sirs, bit of a wierd one this, not sure how it happend but could be 1 of 2 things.....
My cd player suddenly stopped working last night and rather than listen to diff whine i took the cd player out checked all the wires all ok went to put it back in and a wire touched the cage and sparked...replaced cd fuse still not working, so thought forget it il check tomorrow...anywho...as i was driving up the road slowing down for them horrid speed bumps i noticed my speedo wasnt working,gave it a tap and still nothing... could the spark from the cd player have caused maybe another fuse to go bye bye or could it just be luck that the speedo has broke the same time as the cd player?

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Mon Dec 06, 2010 1:51 pm

check all your fuses in the engine fuse box as a starter, could you have pulled the wiring loom abit when tugging to get the radio out??.. am thinking you could have interfered with the speedo wiring to the speedometer during the process.
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Mon Dec 06, 2010 2:10 pm

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Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:07 pm

^^ which is 7.5 amp and also check fuse 21 (7.5 amp) if your radio does not work after replacing fuse 12
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Tue Dec 07, 2010 3:55 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:#12
Hi all, checked fuses today and turns out fuse #12 was blown :) all works fine now :P thanks for the help
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