03 Limited 4Runner (Stuck in Park?)
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The ah-hah!
As a follow-up to my earlier post, in the following days, this STOP fused failed 3 more times (same 3 lights up on the dash), while on the 3rd time my turn signals stopped working as well (turn signal fuse had also failed).
I arrived at my buddies place a few minutes later, and looked at the back of my 4runner and scratched my head trying to figure out what was going on when it came to me.
The weather outside was very wet/rainy/slushy and the roads were a mess. My flat 4 trailer plug wiring was dangling down towards the ground near the hitch and was covered in a wet muddy, salting, slimy paste (no cover on it). Ah hah! An exposed wiring location with both turn and stop signals.
I figure when this was covered in a road salty mud mixture, it casued all of the shorts between the brake and turn signal systems and the associated failed fuses.
I cleaned this up and tucked the end inside, and my problems haven't yet returned! I am pretty sure this is it!
It seems like a pretty serious programming deficiency on the 4runners to shut so many things down and illuminate so many lights just because of a fuse failure!
As an aside, I highly doubt burned out tail light bulbs would cause this same problem to occur.
As a follow-up to my earlier post, in the following days, this STOP fused failed 3 more times (same 3 lights up on the dash), while on the 3rd time my turn signals stopped working as well (turn signal fuse had also failed).
I arrived at my buddies place a few minutes later, and looked at the back of my 4runner and scratched my head trying to figure out what was going on when it came to me.
The weather outside was very wet/rainy/slushy and the roads were a mess. My flat 4 trailer plug wiring was dangling down towards the ground near the hitch and was covered in a wet muddy, salting, slimy paste (no cover on it). Ah hah! An exposed wiring location with both turn and stop signals.
I figure when this was covered in a road salty mud mixture, it casued all of the shorts between the brake and turn signal systems and the associated failed fuses.
I cleaned this up and tucked the end inside, and my problems haven't yet returned! I am pretty sure this is it!
It seems like a pretty serious programming deficiency on the 4runners to shut so many things down and illuminate so many lights just because of a fuse failure!
As an aside, I highly doubt burned out tail light bulbs would cause this same problem to occur.
