carrman
Senior Member
This morning when taking the Newport in to work, my left turn signal started flashing really slow. Had the headlights on, but not much else. Well, I got into town and found the left rear light was really dim. Played with it a little and saw that when I reinserted the socket, it was brighter, telling me it wasn't grounding well. Ok, need to look at that and solder a ground wire on, no biggie. On the way home I flipped on the parking lights, and when I used the right turn signal, it wouldn't hardly flash, and my dash, markers, and taillights went dark. Already had the turn signals fixed for blowing that same fuse. Turned on my hazards to see what all flashed, and sure enough the right tail was now dim. Reinserted the socket and got good ground again. Replaced the fuse and all is well again. My question is this, if a taillight socket loses good ground and the taillights are on, can I cause a fuse to blow using the turn signals when I have bad ground on that light?