Ok so heres a new experience, to provide a little comedy for y'all. Ok so I was driving along and I hit a bump and the stereo shut off, and the Electronic climate control was gone, no a/c no outside temp, no clock on the radio... nothin. So I get in the fuse box, fuse #11 is blown, and I think oh no...theres a short somewhere, but I hope not, because tracing shorts is a freaking nightmare! So I put in a new fuse hoping that its nothing serious. 7 hours later I was driving to the store and happened to hit a rather gnarley pothole and out they go again. So at this point im thinking oh man... what am I gunna do? And its dark, so I turn on the map light and there I see it... there is a bolt in my cigarette lighter port (I don't smoke so my ashtray is a catchall for change and assorted junk) Pulled that out of there, put the lighter back in the hole (was sitting in the ashtray because I had been using the port for my cell charger) and viola' no more blown fuses... but jeeze what a scare for something so silly!

I would have been horrified. It'* good that you got this sorted out because as you said, tracing wires is really nightmarish.

I recently removed my dash to change a fuse...

Does that count?

My daughter had a cell charger plugged into her lighter outlet, and apparently bumped it at some point. It broke down inside the outlet and a piece from it caused the same problem. Never would have figured it out, but I pulled the charger out and noticed it then. I also have heard of similar problem where people put coins in their ashtray and have the lighter removed. Coin slips into the outlet and shorts out. :(

:well, I did find it kind of funny




Yup, thats funny also

Oh JEES, yeah, I remember doing that a buncha times Bad place for that outlet/lighter if you ask me! Stuff would always fall in that damn thing, pennies, nuts (metal), etc. Kept blowin a fuse until I figured out what it was and just left my charger plugged in at all times.

Glad yah figured it out, it can be QUITE annoying.

Yes sir, it does.

Glad you figured out the problem so quickly, and it was an easy fix.

Being the NE place to hang out..there'* always funny stuff happening in my garage. Ask some of the usual suspects...lol

This one night.. Bill Wren and Gumball were going beer for beer..


The short guy won that contest.

And someone left their sneakers after a meet


Someone sent me this box full of these


Enough beer and you'll try and burn twigs


I think he was trying to recruit a seat upholstery shop


The place was invaded by Captain Smelly Butt


There were many hose holding jokes over this one


Uh huh