fuse no:10 keeps blowing!!!!

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:53 pm

someone help,changed my headuint the other day,since then fuse number 10 keeps blowing,before i could change the fuse,drive down the road and it would blow,now as soon as i put the new fuse in,blows straight away,SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:47 pm

Put a bigger one in

................. actually best not! I take it you've double checked all of the wiring?

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:22 pm

Shaz,

if you have checked all the wiring then it could either be the
reverse light switch or the glovebox light that is the problem

Xed

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:20 pm

reverse ligt swich as it rubs on the metal past the rubber gear gaitor
on the way into the car

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:22 pm

fowler wrote:reverse ligt swich as it rubs on the metal past the rubber gear gaitor
on the way into the car

good call fella, like when my reverse wire got tangle around the drive sharft and got ripped off

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:24 pm

yes mate fuse ten cotrols alot of stuff if ican rember right but that is useally the main culprit

Post Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:25 pm

Pull up the gearlever gaiter from the console, and find a white two pin plug and socket lying loose at the right hand side of the bottom of the lever. Pull this up, and unplug it.
Drive the car like this, and see if the fuse blowing stops.

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 4:48 am

also happened to me shaz, it was a short from the glove box light mate...

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:53 am

blingsta wrote:also happened to me shaz, it was a short from the glove box light mate...

You have a very strange wiring loom in your car if fuse 10 is anything to do with the glovebox light!

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:30 am

i had this problem, it was the reverse switch, so pulled up the gaitor and got the wire, it had stripped slighty, so got some insulation tape, wrapped it round and its been fine since!

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:47 am

i also had a problem with fuse 10, turned out to be a short from the electric arieal the coil had snapped and the motor kept running, swapped it for an good ole fashion pull up one

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:48 am

i had a pull up one, then my cousin fell against my car while pissed and snapped it in half, hence the upgrade to electric!

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:23 am

e30bemer wrote:i had a pull up one, then my cousin fell against my car while pissed and snapped it in half, hence the upgrade to electric!

i just wouldn't pay the money that halfrauds wanted for a leccy one.

after i changed it i found a spare elec one in my shed for a mitsubishi

DooH!!

Post Tue Oct 17, 2006 3:33 pm

320iAN wrote:i also had a problem with fuse 10, turned out to be a short from the electric arieal the coil had snapped and the motor kept running, swapped it for an good ole fashion pull up one

Electric aerial should be on 28 - definitely not on 10!
Check that fuse 10 is 7.5A; no bigger.