xjfish
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Pequot Lakes, MN
I was driving to work today and all of a sudden i started to smell something burning and then before I knew it the jeep was full of smoke. Pulled over right away to shut everything off and the burning went away. Had to make it to work so i started it back up with messed up headlights and turn signals didn't work. After it cooled off the turn signals started to work again and had hi-beam headlights. Later looked it over and found that a fuse was blown (flashers/brakelights) replaced fuse but that just kept the headlights on permanently and couldn't turn them off. Flashers worked with headlights on and no fuse for them (assuming they were getting power from melted wire)
Anyways the wire that goes from the hi lo headlight clicker was fried almost down to bare wire all the way to the headlights. Removed what I could of the wire. Removed dash/lower dash/fuse box now its just a big mess. The switch for hi lo beam on the steering column will not click back and forth for some reason. It is supposed to "click" without power right?? I think it broke the switch too.
Any ideas what caused this?
Can you reccomend a repair place to go to? Just any mechanic? Electronic specialist? This is gonna cost me isn't it...
BTW: its an 87 Laredo with a lot of power options. (not good)
Anyways the wire that goes from the hi lo headlight clicker was fried almost down to bare wire all the way to the headlights. Removed what I could of the wire. Removed dash/lower dash/fuse box now its just a big mess. The switch for hi lo beam on the steering column will not click back and forth for some reason. It is supposed to "click" without power right?? I think it broke the switch too.
Any ideas what caused this?
Can you reccomend a repair place to go to? Just any mechanic? Electronic specialist? This is gonna cost me isn't it...
BTW: its an 87 Laredo with a lot of power options. (not good)