Dash light short

[volksrocco@hotmail.com (Brad Sayer)]

Its not the switch, I have swapped in 3 different ones.  Its the wire that 
comes out of the dimmer part.  As soon as it sees 12volts something back 
there starts smoking.  Wire must be shorting somewhere behind the dash, and 
was hoping someone had this happen and can say "ya know what, that wire 
always rubs on the ____ and shorts out, look there first."

Brad

87 16V


>From: "ATS - Patrick Bureau" <pbureau@attbi.com>
>To: "Brad Sayer" <volksrocco@hotmail.com>, <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: Dash light short
>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 17:41:00 -0500
>
>heheh been there done that, just get a new headlight switch, easier then
>trying to repair the melted pcb board.
>
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>=>-----Original Message-----
>=>From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
>=>[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Brad Sayer
>=>Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 4:02 PM
>=>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>=>Subject: Dash light short
>=>
>=>
>=>
>=>Turned my headlights on the other day and smoke started coming from the
>=>behind the switch.  After some testing, the headlight switch/lights work
>=>fine but I have no interior/dash lights.  Seems to be somewhere down the
>=>wire that comes from the dimmer portion of the switch, probably
>=>rubbing/grounding somewhere.  I am gonna take a look this weekend
>=>and try to
>=>find the spot, but does anyone know of a common place where the wire gets
>=>stripped and shorts?  Looking to make this as easy as possible.
>=>
>=>TIA
>=>
>=>Brad
>=>
>=>87 16V
>=>
>=>
>=>
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