Yesterday I noticed that my driver side headlight corner light, not the one for turning but the one with the amber covers was not working when i was pressing unlock/lock on my remote. the passenger headlight one did work though.

Today i wanted to change out one of my license plate lights that was blown. i took off the carpet on the inside of the trunk, removed the trunk light and then began to replace the blown light but realized i brought the wrong one. i left the carpet off and decided i will replace it tomorrow. after a couple of hours, when i got home i went to lock my car i realized my tailights wasn't making the flash it normally did. then i look around and realized that the non blown passenger corner light was off and that the non blown license plate light was not working either when i turned on the headlights.

I put the inside trunk light back on, and thought it was because i left it out that something went wrong. the inside trunk light works but the license plate and corner lights don't work

I looked in the fusebox under small lights row4 15, noticed the metal inside broke. took the spare one from the side and put it in. and turned on my headlights and that fuse was blown too.

I checked all the wires in the trunk, no bare wire anywhere, all the wires are taped up, don't see any non-insulated wires touching metal.

So I have no clue where I am grounding out. I checked for pinched wires too.

Can anybody help me????

I remember on my TL, my small light fuse kept getting blown and didn't figure it until a radio installer said the person who put my radio in forgot to electrical tape one of the wires, that was where i was grounding. but in my rl i have stock radio/nav, do not have navtool.. radio has never been touched.

So what can be wrong?

thank you for reading my post and my problem. and for all future help/answers

 

Well there is clearly a short, finding it may be tough.

First I would trace your steps and check the insulation on the wires. Over time they can get brittle or broken.

If I were you I would unplug the all the bulbs and plug them in one by one until the fuse blows. Then you will know which one it is.

 

sweet. thanks heavy. I am going to try to do that.
Im trying to figure out what lights is "small light fuse" besides the unlock/lock and license plate.

*need to buy a box full of fuse 15.

i was also looking at the manual downloads http://www.mediafire.com/?k8jqxt8q6t7yq
and can't find the manual on the exterior lights or fusebox containing any information on "small light fuse" checked all the ones regarding electrical and fuses

 

Sorry, I'm not familiar with that fuse... one of these guys may know.