Hi guys,

I was driving my wife's 1999 4runner 3.4 L today when I noticed her power mirrors wouldn't adjust (her helpful response was, "Well, you don't really need them anyway!" ). Noticed the radio and clock were out too, so I tracked it as far as the ACC fuse. I replaced the 15 A fuse, and the new one immediately blew. I didn't really look at the replacement before I plugged it in, so I stuck in another one just to be sure I hadn't replaced a bad one with a bad one. Instantly blew the new one again.

I haven't changed anything electrical on the truck in years. The antenna stopped raising a few years back (motor stripped the plastic gear), so I pulled the antenna out a few years ago. Also, I noticed her passenger mirror was cranked all the way to the side, but that could have just been my wife avoiding getting light in her eyes...sigh. Thank God she's pretty.

So anyway, I just had spinal surgery 3 weeks ago and I'm not up to crawling around under the truck or anything, but if it's something I can semi-easily access, I'd like to fix it myself. Can someone please suggest the next thing I should check?

 

With you just coming off back surgery I would listen to the wife for now!1

Just to much crawling and bending to trouble shoot this.

You have a short some place and finding it could be easy or a royal pain.

One never knows.

 

Think it's likely to burn down her car if I leave the fuse out for a few months until I'm more spry? Guess I'll just adjust her mirrors and call it good for now.

She'll start bitching as soon as she realizes her radio doesn't work, though.

 

Get her an ipod and some headphones until your back feels better ... or just take it to a pro .

x2 ... piece of cake or royal pain in the ass to diagnose .

 

Update - found out what the problem was. My wife had a cell phone charger that was plugged into the cigarette lighter outlet. The charger plug broke in the outlet so she threw it away, but there were small pieces of metal from the charger left in the back of the outlet. The pieces of metal were short circuiting the outlets and that is what was blowing the fuse. I removed the metal pieces and replaced the fuse, and now its working.