So, I went and tinkered with my fuses last night. (which was probably a big mistake) I started with the 7.5's b/c I figured those obviously would be the first to go. Sure enough, I found a blown 7.5. I think I accidently plugged a 7.5 back into it's wrong spot. There were 3 empty spots in a row and I think I might have goofed and put it into the wrong empty. I'm not sure though. (Wish I had a diagram) Either way, so I look through all the fuses, and there's only one 7.5 blown. So, I put a tiny piece of duct tape on it so that I could run out today, grab a new one and remember which one was blown. So, after I checked my fuses, I went out for a beer run. I opened my sunroof to tilt and SHAZAM, there goes another fuse! Seriously, what is going on? I found that popped 7.5... moved a good 7.5 into that spot for a sec so I could at least close my sunroof, then switched them back. I'm just seriously frustrated. And BTW, STOCK96civicDX... I'm ugly... so no deed for me. h:

 

What year is your car again? My 95 has diagrams on both the fuse box lid in the bay and on the little flip down pannel under the steering wheel. I don't know why you wouldn't have the same thing, but I don't know the 6th/7th gens... :dunno:

 

Well, ok, you said it, not me

Ok, now you have to go through the car if you keep blowing fuses. I don't have my manual handy, it's the car and my wife has the car right now, so this is gonna kinda be like a blind person trying to describe and elephant to another blind person. it CAN be done, just gotta bear with me here!


Before we get to diagnosing anything, if you have a different stereo in the car, you need to check out all that wiring. all that stuff is on the same circuit from what i can tell from memory. check all your wiring if you've put a different stereo in there, hell check it even if it has the stock stereo in there, cause someone else might've changed it before you and left wires un-insulated. so check all that wiring, make sure all wires are covered good.

Next, you have to find everything that is on that circuit. is it just the one fuse that keeps blowing or is it multiple fuses? check the fuse panels to make sure you have the proper fuses inserted. seems you have a lot more running on your dome light circuit than i do (sunroof) and it might require larger than a 7.5 amp fuse.

Once you've checked to make sure that you have all the proper rated fuses inserted in the right places, then you have to start checking your wiring. your best bet is to physically trace all the wiring. you said you used the sunroof and then the fuse blew out. let's start there then. go to where your sunroof controls are, open up that panel, check the wiring, make sure it's connected good and there's no bare wiring. then get to the sun roof motor and check the wiring there. you're going to have to do this for every circuit that keeps blowing out fuses. if you have all the proper fuses inserted in the fuse panels, then you've got something on the circuit that is either defective and using too much power or you've got a short in the system somewhere. you could also have a break in a wire somewhere that you can't see because of the insulation. This is where a multimeter comes in handy, as you can hook to either end of the wire, and if there's enough wire exposed, you can wiggle the wire around. if you get an infinate resistance when the wire is moved in different directions, it's a bad wire.

This is gonna take some patience on your part and you're gonna be taking parts of the car apart. you need to check every piece of electrical on the car, it's gonna be time consuming. but here's your 2 choices.....take plenty of time to go through the car and try to find the problem, or you can go ahead and just start replacing parts until you possibly stumble across the problem. it's up to you. i prefer to find the problem and correct it instead of just replacing everything til i find the problem. cheaper that way!


DO NOT, under any circumstances, think you can clear up the problem by just putting a larger fuse in than recommended (like putting a 15 amp fuse in place of a 7.5 amp). you WILL create problems for yourself. hope i've been of some help.

btw, what car are we talking about here? year/model.

 

WestCoast..... it's a 95 2dr EX. I don't have a fuse panel cover under my dash... that's half of my problem. I haven't had one since I've owned it. Luckily, my headliner is out already b/c I'm vinyling it this weekend. It's been apart for a week. I checked all the connections up top by my sun roof motor, and the entire perimeter along the roof for any other connections. They're all solid. Is there anyway you can snap a digi pic of what your fuse box cover looks like up close so that I can see what goes to what... and where the empty fuse slots are for sure. That would be cool if you could do that for me. If not, I dig.

Stock96Civic, I just put in a new Kenwood headunit this past weekend... but the dome/door fuse blew before that, and the sunroof fuse blew after that. So, don't think that has anything to do with it. There was a tiny piece of exposed wire in the back of the head unit (orange wire) when I was installing it.. .since it was installed on my other car... but I covered that with electrical tape, deffinitly no exposed wire there.... but maybe that wasn't good enough. Either way, as you said.... the stereo fuse is under the hood. Shouldn't matter, I think. Let me know... you guys are awesome for givin me good info. Keep it comin'.

 

I'll scan that fuse cover thingy diagram tonight if nobody gets to it before me

 

Is your stereo on the same fuse as the rest of that? your stereo could be sucking too much power and blowing the fuse out if it's on the same fuse. 2 ways to try to eliminate that as the problem.....

either do the math if your stereo needs more power than is being supplied through that fuse and use a larger fuse to compensate

or

Run your wiring for the stereo directly to teh battery (hard wiring). downside of hardwiring is that if you don't remember to turn the stereo off when you leave the car, you come back to a dead battery.

can't help you with a pic of the fuse panel cover, cause my car is a 96 and yours is a 95.

Another possibility is that the equipment running on those fuses is going bad.

Another possibility is that you put a fuse in that wasn't manufactured right and it blew out at a lesser amperage than it was supposed to. diagnose and let us know what the prognosis is, doc!

 

I need a scanned copy of the fuse box cover!!!! I keep blowing the sunroof fuse. It's only a 7.5a fuse in it, and that doesn't sound right to me. I got my wipers, dome light, and door buzzer fixed... or so it seems.. but now I have to leave the sunroof shut, or I'll pop it within once or twice opening it and closing it. I blew through 3 fuses in about 3 minutes yesterday (all the same sunroof fuse) trying to see what was up w/it... if it was grounding somewhere. I know there's someone reading this who has a 5th Gen and has way too much time on their hands today... go ahead and email me a pic of up close to the fuse box cover... and what the inside of your fuse box looks like. You can email it to IMUNCHSNOW@AOL.COM

 

Underdash diagram: http://spoon.org/civic/pics/Interior-Fuse-Panel.jpg

Text version: http://spoon.org/civic/pics/93-Civic-Fuse-Block-1.jpg

Engine Bay diagram: http://spoon.org/civic/pics/93-Civic-Fuse-Block-2.jpg

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WHO'S THE MAN! :chuckles:

 

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You win! Thanks so much! Seriously... any favor... I'm there for ya! Well, almost any favor.

That doesn't make sense that there's a 7.5a fuse then for my sun roof. I hope to god I didn't fawk it up, but my guess is that I did and accidently put a 7.5 where a 30 should be for my sunroof. I'm going to print those all out. You seriously saved me a lot of frustration.

 

Westcoast.... what book did you get those diagrams out of? Just curious.