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Fuse to high beam keeps blowing. High beam light indication at the dash when this happens. Fuse change good for a day or two then fuse blows. Car was sitting for a week, car battery found dead and fuse blown again. Local mechanic has given it the once over and has yet to locate problem. I'm an aircraft mechanic so will now tackle this issue. There is lots of wire, any suggestions as to where to start.

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Only three reasons a fuse blows like that - the circuit consuming almost as much current as the fuse can cope with, dirty or poor connections to the fuse or fuseholder causing it to get very hot or an intermittent short circuit.

It is often useful to temporarily replace the fuse with an mcb (micro circuit breaker). I use one salvaged from a domestic consumer unit.

If after monitoring the circuit current and wiggling wires and connections, opening and closing doors and suchlike there are no obvious faults it will be necessary to persevere with normal use until a pattern emerges - there is almost always a pattern. I suggest you also suspect the headlamp bulb...

Good luck!

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your module in the steering wheel is faulty you should get it replaced. you can purchase it at ie Napa for alot less than through a dealer.

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Something is drawing too much power and you will have to find out which it is. When the head job was done they may have gotten a wire pinched in the block or some thing. You would have to be quite mknowledgable in vehicle electronics to find it. I would suggest that you take it back to the shop or guy that done the head job for you to correct.

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  • Posted on Sep 02, 2010

SOURCE: 10 amp gauge fuse keeps blowing. Took it to the

It could be another fuse that is causing the problem. Check all your fuses and make sure that they are all in good condition. Fuses are cheap, so you could replace most of them for under 10 bucks I'm sure.

If that doesn't do it, then you might have a grounded wire somewhere. You can physically look for any grounded wires behind the fuse box, or in the engine compartment. Or you can get an electronic fuse checker, or probe.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 07, 2010

SOURCE: i have a 2001 toyota

Have you checked the light globes ? The globes have a filament for each of Low and High Beams and the Low Beam ones fail much sooner than the high. A bump as you describe may have been enough for the Low beam filaments to fail as the filaments get brittle through age.

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