Man, you ever have one of those days in the garage where if you could catch half-a-break then you could load the rest up and donate it to Ukraine? That was today.
First, I'm still waiting for the Bilsteins to arrive. The car is on jack-stands and we're running out of days until our run. To keep things moving, I had bought some bulbs for those new corner markers I put in. I thought installing a lightbulb was something so easy that even I could do it.
I was wrong.
Here's what they look like:
and here's where i ended up...
See, the problem is these new corner markers use two bulbs. One for the turn signal, and one for the clear corner marker (it comes on when you turn on the lights). The old corner markers just had one bulb that came on when you turned on the lights. To make the change, I had to splice in a new pigtail.
The problem is, that pigtail used the same ground wire for both the turn signal light bulb AND for the corner marker light bulb. So when I hit the turn signal AND had the lights on (to make sure it all worked before moving on to the other side), everything stopped working...
Luckily, I've screwed up enough aftermarket car stereo installs to know exactly what went wrong (dash lights and tail lights went out too). With both the turn signal on, AND the lights on, both were trying to ground themselves to the same wire and the fuse blew.
Bugger.
I took out the new light bulbs, and put in a new fuse only to have it blow as well.
So I took out the new light bulbs, removed the pigtails, and disconnected my stereo (that's not currently working anyway) and the fuse is currently surviving.
I figure that's enough for today. Time to put down my tools and go back in my house before I screw up something I can't fix.
Good times.
(Mrs. Hungary called. The shocks arrived at our doorstep right after I left for work. With the day's luck like that, I'm certain I made the right call when I decided to stop touching things.)
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