# Question about Fuses, shorts, and an electrical mess.

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [February 1, 2007, 8:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/question-about-fuses-shorts-and-an-electrical-mess/23904 "2007-02-01T08:55:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2007, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/question-about-fuses-shorts-and-an-electrical-mess/23904/12 "2007-02-01T09:58:34Z")

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See if you can take a look at the wires on the back of the cigarette lighter

Im thinking that MAYBE, you couldve melted a wire back there and now theyre comming into contact, causing a short.

Its only two wires on the back of the plug

TRACE THEM as far as you can from the lighter back. Its easy

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