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OK, so I hit a deer with my one of my ugly blue '90 Festiva LX 5-speed about 2 years ago now, and it has had problems with the electrical system since. I would really hate to junk this car because even at 176,000 miles it still runs better than my '90 L+ Automatic with 120,000 miles.
Anyway, when the accident happened it tore quite a few wires loose in the engine compartment due to corrosion. There was a little black box on the strut tower on the drivers side, that had a "main" labeled wire input and some other stuff. It appeared that this box was just a fancy way of having all the wires spliced together, so that's what I did, cut all the wires and spliced them together (since they were all torn out of the box anyway), and it has ran under it's own power since. Before that it was dead as dead could be.
However, now I have no dash lights (except clock), the seat-belts don't work, and my parking lights and turn signals do not work. I looked for a specific fuse on the fuse box that controls the seat-belts and parking lights and such, but there was no labeled fuse for them. Anyone know what number fuse controls them? Aside from that, I have looked for some more broken wires, but to no avail I have not found any.
At least the car moves around now, I guess. :lol: For awhile there it has been a lawn ornament.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
Anyway, when the accident happened it tore quite a few wires loose in the engine compartment due to corrosion. There was a little black box on the strut tower on the drivers side, that had a "main" labeled wire input and some other stuff. It appeared that this box was just a fancy way of having all the wires spliced together, so that's what I did, cut all the wires and spliced them together (since they were all torn out of the box anyway), and it has ran under it's own power since. Before that it was dead as dead could be.
However, now I have no dash lights (except clock), the seat-belts don't work, and my parking lights and turn signals do not work. I looked for a specific fuse on the fuse box that controls the seat-belts and parking lights and such, but there was no labeled fuse for them. Anyone know what number fuse controls them? Aside from that, I have looked for some more broken wires, but to no avail I have not found any.
At least the car moves around now, I guess. :lol: For awhile there it has been a lawn ornament.
Anyway, any help would be appreciated.
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