Strange electrical anomaly
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Drifting
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From: Castle Hills Texas
Strange electrical anomaly
I am sort of confused here. After using the cig. lighter, power to the locks, radio, ineterior lights, and lighter died. I pulled the fuse and all looks good, I replaced it anyway but still nothing. The odd part is, I can get the power locks to actuate using the alarm button on the key FOB. If I use the actual door switches I get nothing. I also noticed that power to my radio was cycling on and off, very quickly.....more of just a quick blink from it's face plate about once a second. It is all quite odd to me. Anybody else know where I might look next to sort this out?
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From: Tracy California
Originally Posted by Crash80
I am sort of confused here. After using the cig. lighter, power to the locks, radio, ineterior lights, and lighter died. I pulled the fuse and all looks good, I replaced it anyway but still nothing. The odd part is, I can get the power locks to actuate using the alarm button on the key FOB. If I use the actual door switches I get nothing. I also noticed that power to my radio was cycling on and off, very quickly.....more of just a quick blink from it's face plate about once a second. It is all quite odd to me. Anybody else know where I might look next to sort this out?
Hey man.. Don't mess with electricals..
Get yourself a Wiring diagram and make sure all connections are where theyre supposed to be.. or have your motor shop run a diagnostic to find out why...
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From: Castle Hills Texas
Originally Posted by Hauq`
Have you looked at the grounds?
Did you perform any maintenance on the car before this happened?
Did you perform any maintenance on the car before this happened?
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From: Castle Hills Texas
Originally Posted by SIXFOOTER
pull the side panel off drivers side of the console and look at the connection on the bottom of the lighter, its flakey at best
As for the grounds, where are all of 'em located? That will be a good thing to go over to I would presume.
It has been a bad week for the Vette. The electrical thing happened Friday afternoon....later that afternoon the car got pegged by a tire that sheered off of an F-350 causing a crack in the right front fender. And, to add insult to injury, the rear end is howling to the tune of big money to repair.
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From: Crestview Fl
my 72 doesn't have the newer options, but I had about the same problems, my radio was doing the same thing. it turned out to be a combination of a loose battery ground cable and almost dead battery,terry 
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From: Tuttle OK
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Originally Posted by Crash80
As for the grounds, where are all of 'em located? That will be a good thing to go over to I would presume.
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From: Castle Hills Texas
Originally Posted by Avette4me
I actually alrerady have that one bookmarked. I can't believe I forgot about it. Thanks again all.