Help, wiring gurus needed

[Huw Powell]

> I then check out the license plate lamp area and
> we notice that they connected the new wire from the left tail light,
> but they never disconnected the older “shorted” wire. So the license
> plate light had the new wire source and the older one connected to
> it.
> 
> So, my question is, if they did not disconnect the older shorted wire
> from the license plate lamp, would it have caused the short to blow
> up the IC?

Well, it certainly would have loaded the circuit it was added to (the 
left tail light) with the short circuit in the old wiring.  While it is 
probably very difficult to show whether or not that made the smoke come 
out of your cluster, what they did certainly falls under the heading of 
"kludge."  Why didn't they just find the short and fix it?

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Huw Powell

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