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bigrobwoot · 2010-01-25, 12:48 PM

I have a question that may or may not be related to the angel eyes I have installed on my car. I've had them on my car for about a year and a half. I recently just blew the fuse for my parking lights. I noticed/smelled a short near the passenger side headlight after replacing the fuse, and neither the angel eye nor parking light were working on that side before the fuse popped again about 10-15 seconds later. I walked all the way around the car, checking all the lights, noticed the passenger side wasn't on, then everything went off when the fuse popped, just to give a timeframe.

I thought I fixed the problem by soldering all of the connections between the angel eye and parking light. Stupid I didn't in the first place, I know. I noticed that the connection on the inverter that I'm not using (it's the connection I'm not using, not the inverter. The inverter has 2 plugs for potentially 2 angel eyes, I'm only using 1) was showing signs of melting, so I cut it off and covered the ends of the wire so that they didn't short circuit. The fuse pops in about a second now, I just went through a 5 pack of fuses trying to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this.

2010-01-25, 12:48 PM	#1
bigrobwoot EJ251 Real Name: Rob Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Reno Posts: 679 Car: 2019 CBS WRX Premium Class: Middle Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll still be among the stars	Who's good with wiring? I think there's a short in my parking light circuit? I have a question that may or may not be related to the angel eyes I have installed on my car. I've had them on my car for about a year and a half. I recently just blew the fuse for my parking lights. I noticed/smelled a short near the passenger side headlight after replacing the fuse, and neither the angel eye nor parking light were working on that side before the fuse popped again about 10-15 seconds later. I walked all the way around the car, checking all the lights, noticed the passenger side wasn't on, then everything went off when the fuse popped, just to give a timeframe. I thought I fixed the problem by soldering all of the connections between the angel eye and parking light. Stupid I didn't in the first place, I know. I noticed that the connection on the inverter that I'm not using (it's the connection I'm not using, not the inverter. The inverter has 2 plugs for potentially 2 angel eyes, I'm only using 1) was showing signs of melting, so I cut it off and covered the ends of the wire so that they didn't short circuit. The fuse pops in about a second now, I just went through a 5 pack of fuses trying to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading this. Last edited by bigrobwoot; 2010-01-25 at 12:50 PM.