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mstechca
Mad Scientist
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 Posted - Feb 22 2004 : 7:49:52 PM
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My mom has a 1991 Pontiac 6000 LE.
The problem with it is that the turn signals do not work, but the hazard flashers work. We contacted a local mechanic and he said to replace a "thermal flasher". I did that and the results were no different. I ripped out the glove compartment and found some fuses. I noticed that one fuse was burned out. I replaced it with a new one and that made no differnece.
What's worse is that the clock on the radio doesn't light up. Everything else works. Whats crazy is that if I remove a fuse from another section, the radio click lights up. the fuse sections that made this happen were the gauge, back brake lights, and the alternator.
I even tried putting in the correct fuses values in each fuse slot I could find and it doesnt work.
I read in the manual that there are sets of fuses in the engine compartment, and in the sections I have looked at. Where is the engine compartment and how do I access it?
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Feb 23 2004 : 10:55:12 AM
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Engine compartment is easy to find....open the hood. 
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cirvin
Nobel Prize Winner
USA
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Posted - Feb 23 2004 : 3:30:50 PM
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I think he mean't the fuse compartment.
I woud open the hood and look for a black box with alot of cables running into it. If you dont see one that is that obvious, try opening all the black boxes.
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mstechca
Mad Scientist
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Posted - Feb 23 2004 : 6:56:53 PM
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I think he mean't the fuse compartment.
Yes I did. Thats one reason why Aarons answer was funny.
Where abouts are these black boxes? I dont want to rip the whole car apart and not be able to make it more of a nuisance.
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BEatonNo1
Nobel Prize Winner
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Posted - Feb 23 2004 : 8:43:20 PM
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usually they are pretty close to the battery. mine is on the passenger side over the wheel. and its got a snap off cover that has the fuse arrangement silk screened onto the top. I have yet to see a car where theyre hidden. also check under the steering wheel, alot of times fuses are kept there to
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Posted - Feb 26 2004 : 12:51:29 PM
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the best anweser is to find the fuse box (black box)
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Posted - Feb 26 2004 : 12:56:48 PM
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the best anweser is to find the fuse box (black box)
yuo don't know what u are talking about idiot.
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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Feb 26 2004 : 1:17:10 PM
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yuo don't know what u are talking about idiot.
Watch it. There is no need for personal attacks. Any further comments like this and your account will be locked. This forum is a friendly place, and if you can't see that, then maybe you don't belong here.
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Posted - Feb 27 2004 : 08:16:16 AM
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This jonathan77 dude will destroy your web site. he copies everything and will tell that he invented it. he is in my class in school. i tried to make your go-kart for something to do and he came over a nd took notes while it was by ny door and before you know it, he had them put on somebodies web site saying they were his.
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Aaron Cake
Administrator
Canada
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Posted - Feb 28 2004 : 11:26:54 AM
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You know what, I don't care. He has not caused a single problem on this forum. You, on the other hand, have. Leave it at the door, or get out. If you guys have some moronic highschool argument, settle it in the schoolyard like you should.
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Pontiac Bob
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Posted - Aug 12 2006 : 01:04:37 AM
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My mom has a 1991 Pontiac 6000 LE.
The problem with it is that the turn signals do not work, but the hazard flashers work. We contacted a local mechanic and he said to replace a "thermal flasher". I did that and the results were no different. I ripped out the glove compartment and found some fuses. I noticed that one fuse was burned out. I replaced it with a new one and that made no differnece.
What's worse is that the clock on the radio doesn't light up. Everything else works. Whats crazy is that if I remove a fuse from another section, the radio click lights up. the fuse sections that made this happen were the gauge, back brake lights, and the alternator.
I even tried putting in the correct fuses values in each fuse slot I could find and it doesnt work.
I read in the manual that there are sets of fuses in the engine compartment, and in the sections I have looked at. Where is the engine compartment and how do I access it?
Hello sounds like your having fun there
don't forget to check the fuseable links under the hood & maybe in the fuse harnest its self
check the signal flasher might be in the fuse box in the glove box or under hood along fender well...
I have a 1987 SE its a little different but the same when trouble happens I bang my head on the bumper
good luck there hope you find it
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Pontiac Bob
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Posted - Aug 12 2006 : 01:17:01 AM
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My mom has a 1991 Pontiac 6000 LE.
The problem with it is that the turn signals do not work, but the hazard flashers work. We contacted a local mechanic and he said to replace a "thermal flasher". I did that and the results were no different. I ripped out the glove compartment and found some fuses. I noticed that one fuse was burned out. I replaced it with a new one and that made no differnece.
What's worse is that the clock on the radio doesn't light up. Everything else works. Whats crazy is that if I remove a fuse from another section, the radio click lights up. the fuse sections that made this happen were the gauge, back brake lights, and the alternator.
I even tried putting in the correct fuses values in each fuse slot I could find and it doesnt work.
I read in the manual that there are sets of fuses in the engine compartment, and in the sections I have looked at. Where is the engine compartment and how do I access it?
The engine compartment is under the hood
that's the compartment ....thing to in reading your problem have you installed any new eletronic devices in or around your car sonds you have a short someplace need to ask is your battery staying charged as it should?
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MC BOB
Apprentice
Australia
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Posted - Aug 12 2006 : 05:02:26 AM
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I am sorry to say what Aaron has already made a point of, and Aaron I apologise if I sound like I am trying to take away your postion of moderator. Mr. jmpenny, this is a technical forum, not marriage counselling. Mr. Cake posts all of his plans free, and if someone was to take them and say that they were his/hers, then Mr. Cake would deal with them.
It sounds like you do not like your classmate. Good for you. However, that does not give you the right to interrupt a public forum about 1991 Pontiac 6000 electrical problems.I must re-iterate what Mr. Cake has said, and that was that this person you are making these claims against has not made a nuisance of himself/herself, however you have.
I fail to see what the social issues of two teenagers has to do with finding fuse-boxes in the engine compartment of a car. Now, I don't know if they do things differently in Canada, but us Australians would call your actions defamation, and would slog you one for it.
My apologies to Aaron Cake if it seems that I am attempting to take Mr. Cake's position of moderator. I simply want to point out that the forum community, as a whole, do not want to hear what you have to say about your classmate.
Aaron, feel free to tell me to shut my pie hole.
Now how about we find out what is wrong with this Pontiac? It sounds pretty bad to me..........
You said that if you took out or swapped certain fuses the clock radio would light up? That is most strange, and maybe it would be wise to take it to an auto-electrician.
Cheers,
Mick
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chandan.ahluwalia
Apprentice
India
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Posted - Aug 17 2008 : 3:58:47 PM
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Well, you have mentioned that when you take out some other fuse from the box the clock lights up. There is a simmilar case with my suzuki 800. When i remove a fuse( i think the brake light's), the high beam indicator lights up . I think there is some connection between the different fuse in the fuse box.
Regarding your indicator problem, don't you think that it can be as simple problem as a faulty switch?  .
This might be the reason why the Hazards work but not the side indicators when you turn them on as they have a different switch. |
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cyclopsitis
Nobel Prize Winner
Canada
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Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 10:35:45 AM
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Chandan, That would also be my first thought. I had the same car 6000LE for about two years! My left turn signal stopped working so I checked the fuses and everything but no change. I went to a junk yard and got a replacement steering columb assembly and replaced every switch and lever on it. After that the whole thing and it worked again (even my cruse control! YAY!)
The nice thing about the 6000's is that many were sold back in the day and even though most people got rid of them they still run just fine. That means that most of the ones that are in junk yards are still functional. Find some parts it will probably only cost you a twenty. |
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chandan.ahluwalia
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India
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Posted - Aug 18 2008 : 12:50:50 PM
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I hope that helps Mr mstechca's problem..
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