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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 04:53 PM
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Ok so my friends turn signals stoped working, so i tried my switch relay on her's and the relay started buzzing. The tail lights stoped working too. I do not have brake lights, turn signals nothing. The third brake lights wont work either. I couldnt figure out which fuse it it either. Any help would be apreciated.
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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 06:41 PM
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On no, not another one.................Bad mistake, you don't substitute one of your electrical parts for another whose has gone bad. I know that it seems like a good idea, but usually it is not that the part that is bad but something else caused it to go bad. She probably has a short, which caused her relay to go bad, then you put yours in her car and the same short caused your relay to go bad, probable burned out the activator coil. Now the only thing that you can do is to buy a new relay for your car and hope there was nothing else damaged since you put your now damaged relay back in your car and it only buzzed. Your friend needs to have her car looked at for a possible short in the lighting system.
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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 11:15 PM
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Ok so my friends turn signals stoped working, so i tried my switch relay on her's and the relay started buzzing. The tail lights stoped working too. I do not have brake lights, turn signals nothing. The third brake lights wont work either. I couldnt figure out which fuse it it either. Any help would be apreciated.
It's either fuse 4 or 6 in the passenger footwell.
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It's either fuse 4 or 6 in the passenger footwell.

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Old Mar 14, 2010 | 11:22 PM
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Thanks everyone, I put my relay back in and had no problems. It seemd like hers was working when i turned the signal it buzzed but wouldnt cycle. I will check the fuses and maybe thats it.
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