Electrical Problem

[cbutler]

I was hooking up a new boost gauge, and I tried to splice the wires for the light into the cigerette lighter like I heard from reading other threads. Not only does the light not work, but now somehow my tail lights, fog lights, and the rest of my gauge lights don't work. I must have shorted something out, but I have no idea where. I'm thinking that I must not of tied into the right wires on the cigerette lighter. Has this ever happened to anybody, or are there any suggestions.

 

[Supracentral]

Sounds like you hooked power to ground.

Go back, undo what you did and start over with a voltmeter in your hand this time.

 

[hottscennessey]

I'd check the fuse under the driver side kick pannel.. they're labled.

 

[The Reaper]

yea i popped the fuse to my lighter and gauges 4 times when trying to plug my buddy's WB in the cig lighter port. something was wired wrong back there and it'd pop a fuse everytime we turned on the WB controller

 

[cbutler]

I spent a lot of time checking for this short, but still no luck. I tried checking the fuses, and the gauge and cig. lighter were fine. There is no spot for a fuse where the diagram has it labelled for fog lights, this really confused me. Its a jza70 if this makes a difference. Also the power wire for the cigerette lighter (the red one) was soldered together, so I think this maybe where the problem is. I think I'm almost ready to give up and take it to the shop though.