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Old Jun 1, 2007 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by djlobes
well im always doing stuff to the car so yeah. when i lowered the car i pulled on one off the rear wheel sensor cables and ever since then my abs light has been on. but i dont remember if that was before or after my lights stopped working. oh and let me try to explain it a little better. with the reccomended 20a fuse it blows everytime i hit my brake pedal weither or not the headlights/tailights are on. with a large fuse and the running lights off when i hit my brake pedal it appears to work fine. but when i turn on my running lights or headlights and i hit the brake pedal all the lights in my car dim, my rpm's drop and my tailights/brake lights appear to dim and then go back to normal but dont get any brighter to signal me stopping.

heres a question, on this car the rear taillight and brakelights are the same bulb right? the bulb has two fillements and when one lights up thats the taillights and then both light up for the brake lights right?

so i went through every fuse in the car and none of them were blown. alot of them were the wrong size so i went ahead and corrected that just to make sure. ive looked all through the interior and engine bay and still havent found any sort of short.
Yes, If you have two filament bulbs and one of the filaments are arching inside the bulb, That will create a short and the whole electrical system can be effected.
This same problem just happened to my Work truck, All running lights, back up lights, and running lights went dead.........just because of the left bulb grounding out inside of it's self.

Try changing out the bulbs and see if that fixes everything.
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