Hi,
2005 FX35 2WD parking lights do not come on (so at night, when you are behind me, you cannot see me until I brake (brake lights work) or use my turn signal (these work as well)). Headlights are working. The fuse (#71) pops when I replace it and turn on the lights.
Background: I got this car a few months ago. I don't know if this is relevant, but an aftermarket "Tesla-style" touch-screen head unit was put in. Aside from it turning on and me being able to use the A/C controls, none of the other functions work (so no stereo in the car). I'm fine with that. Also, the thick bundle of wires that leads into the spare tire area of the car (that might have been connected to the subwoofer?) had the harness cut off at some point, but those wires are all wrapped up. Also, the harness that leads into the Bose amp in the rear-right trunk area had several frayed/exposed wires. Each problem wire I either wrapped in electrical tape or if it was necessary, I soldered the two ends of the broken wire together and then covered with heat-shrink rubber & then tape. Like I said, not sure if any of that is relevant to my problem.
In any case, those things have been the same since I purchased the car a few months ago, and it has only been the past week or so that I don't have parking lights.
I've located fuse 71 (top left) in the fuse box behind the battery, and that is the fuse that keeps blowing. I've probably been through four of them so far. I replace the fuse, and then either turn the key to ON or ACC, or with the ignition OFF I turn on the headlights, and in those cases the fuse blows immediately.
I've since taken out the license plate bulbs, the bulbs for the rear side markers, the front side marker bulbs, and the front parking light bulbs - THEN put in a new fuse, so no bulbs are connected, but the fuse still blows as soon as I turn on the lights or put the key to the ACC/ON position.
The service manual says that if the fuse is blown to "eliminate the cause of the malfunction" before installing a new fuse, but I don't know how to do that.
So that's my question. How do I figure out what the cause of the malfunction is? There may be other wiring modifications to the car that I don't know about, but everything was working fine until a week ago.
Thanks for any help/direction you can give me.
2005 FX35 2WD parking lights do not come on (so at night, when you are behind me, you cannot see me until I brake (brake lights work) or use my turn signal (these work as well)). Headlights are working. The fuse (#71) pops when I replace it and turn on the lights.
Background: I got this car a few months ago. I don't know if this is relevant, but an aftermarket "Tesla-style" touch-screen head unit was put in. Aside from it turning on and me being able to use the A/C controls, none of the other functions work (so no stereo in the car). I'm fine with that. Also, the thick bundle of wires that leads into the spare tire area of the car (that might have been connected to the subwoofer?) had the harness cut off at some point, but those wires are all wrapped up. Also, the harness that leads into the Bose amp in the rear-right trunk area had several frayed/exposed wires. Each problem wire I either wrapped in electrical tape or if it was necessary, I soldered the two ends of the broken wire together and then covered with heat-shrink rubber & then tape. Like I said, not sure if any of that is relevant to my problem.
In any case, those things have been the same since I purchased the car a few months ago, and it has only been the past week or so that I don't have parking lights.
I've located fuse 71 (top left) in the fuse box behind the battery, and that is the fuse that keeps blowing. I've probably been through four of them so far. I replace the fuse, and then either turn the key to ON or ACC, or with the ignition OFF I turn on the headlights, and in those cases the fuse blows immediately.
I've since taken out the license plate bulbs, the bulbs for the rear side markers, the front side marker bulbs, and the front parking light bulbs - THEN put in a new fuse, so no bulbs are connected, but the fuse still blows as soon as I turn on the lights or put the key to the ACC/ON position.
The service manual says that if the fuse is blown to "eliminate the cause of the malfunction" before installing a new fuse, but I don't know how to do that.
So that's my question. How do I figure out what the cause of the malfunction is? There may be other wiring modifications to the car that I don't know about, but everything was working fine until a week ago.
Thanks for any help/direction you can give me.
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