1999 Honda Accord Fuse Blows for Lights

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1999 honda accord lx keeps blowing a 10 fuse that controls the dash, rear, and license plate lights. what is the problem. i replace the fuse and five minutes later it is blown again. help me i have been pulled over by the police for no rear lighting. :?
Aug 13, 2006 at 9:33 AM
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[quote:3b0b00ca57="ttb"]1999 honda accord lx keeps blowing a 10 fuse that controls the dash, rear, and license plate lights. what is the problem. i replace the fuse and five minutes later it is blown again. help me i have been pulled over by the police for no rear lighting. :?[/quote:3b0b00ca57]

It looks like the power on a LX goes thru the Combination headlight switch. THat is a posibility that it is bad causing the fuse to blow. More than likey it is a bad light or a wire has gotten damaged and shorted to the frame.
I would do a little trouble shooting to start with. All of these lights run on this circuit. Left and right front park, left and right front turn signal/side marker light, left and right inner tail lights, left and right brake light/outer tailights, license plate, and trailer lighting connector.
So, first off, disconnect the combination headlight switch, and see if the fuse blows. If not, then mostlikey one of your lights is bad. I would start removing them and lookinf for signs of water damage, corrosion, or arcing. Once you get them all disconnected, try another fuse. If it does not blow, then connect the lights one by one until you find the bad one. If it still blows the fuse, then it may be some thing in the dash lights that is shorting out. You are just going to have to try and eliminate each possiblity until you track down the short.
Aug 13, 2006 at 10:10 AM

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A short is likely in the combination headlight switch, a lamp, or the wiring. Disconnect the headlight switch and see if the fuse still blows. If not, inspect and disconnect the park, turn, tail, brake, license, and trailer lights for water damage, corrosion, or arcing, then reconnect them one at a time. If the fuse still blows with the lights disconnected, check the dash-light circuit.

Conversation Summary

A 1999 Honda Accord LX with 147,000 miles repeatedly blows the 10-amp fuse for the dash, rear, and license-plate lights within about five minutes, leaving the rear lights out. The expert says the circuit also feeds the park, turn, side-marker, tail, brake, license, and trailer lights through the combination headlight switch. They recommend disconnecting that switch first, then isolating each lamp and checking for a damaged or shorted wire or a dash-light short.

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