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So since my stang got fixed, the shop had to rewire everything because it all got smashed in the wreck. Well it was fine. At first. Lately my battery has been going dead 10 minutes after charging it, and I could not figure it out. Well, I took the battery out of my truck and hooked in the stang and there are 2 wires that run into the fuse box. they were just smoking like crazy! I have no clue what to do about it. Its draining my battery and not safe. Why would they be smoking? What should I do? Any help appreciated.
 

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May have a nick in the wiring someplace causing a short. What fuse box are you talking about.
 

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XxMustang281xX said:
Why would they be smoking? What should I do? Any help appreciated.
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too much amperage for too small a wire, should have blown a fuse first before smoking the wires. if you have your owners manual check to see if all the fuses are the proper amp ratings. hack body shops (pretty much all of them) sometimes replace a 10amp fuse that keeps blowing with a 20amp fuse so it won't blow

do you have a DVOM or amp/voltmeter?
 

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No, I dont...well its the 2 MAIN wires going into the side of the fusebox (drivers side front of the engine bay for whoever asked). if someone has time could they go out and look at the wires im talking about, i dont think it would be a fuse or too small of wire, its pretty big.. what should i do to solve the problem?
 

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i would hate to have to tear all the wiring apart just to MAYBE find a nick in one.
 

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You said you just got it back from the body shop right ? Take the car back to those punks and b1tch sl@p them for their shoddy work. Make them fix it. Tell them do it once do it right or don't do it at all, other wise you will be doing it again and again all day until it is right. Don't let them get away with shoddy work. I understand you need to drive your car to work and what not. We all have lives, but you aren't going to drive your car for very long if it lights itself on fire because of a dead short.
 

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well we got it back from the body shop like...6 months ago. i havent been driving it though because i dont have insurance on it, because there are some minor things to take care of. thing is, i didnt have this problem at first. i drove it home from the body shop and it was fine! the problem started maybe 1-2 months ago. so i dont know about it being all the body shops fault. i have no idea what i should do...
 

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Accidents can cause funny stuff to happen a few weeks after you start driving the car again. I didn't realize you have had the car back for so long or I wouldn't have been so harsh with what I posted. Take it back to them anyways and tell them the car has been siting because of insurance and ask them if they will check it out in their spare time. If it is accident related, they are required to do something about it. You are under 1 years time so it should still be under warrenty.
 

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i think battery acid chewed through some of the wires, i might just try to retape and recover them and see if that solves it. i think 2 wires are touching inside somewhere.
 

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Definately if you are getting smoke. Make sure they are not brittle and break
 

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if they do i have plenty here.
 
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