Burning Smell

[Treyz]

Here's a funny thing. The night that this all started on, it happened again tonight a week later. Found out that it's the fog light system fuse. For some reason it has to do with the inline fuse.

I have the DLAA aftermarket ones. I connected it exactly to the DIY that was written before the hack with v2 so that I can get the foglight indicator on the cluster to work. Anyone else with the same fogs experience this?

Now I'm gonna have to go through the connections again.

[Malaya1221]

dlaa, is that the ebay version? i remember htm yaris having problem with the ebay yellow fog lights...

[1NZYaris1]

what size bulbs are you running in your fogs,
as the yaris prewired setup is only designed for 50watt max,
wireing is to light to run anything bigger safely.
just a thought.

[SilverBack]

I would start the car and let it warm-up. Then the second I would smell the burn, I would pop open the hood and sniff around for the same smell. If it's there too, then it's gotta be exhaust heat that's either too close to or it's coming in contact to something near the cabin air intake. I would then take care of it ASAP because I would be convinced that there's damage to somewhere in the exhaust line (possibly a hole or a knocked-loose connection), which could be causing more damage to something else since there's a burning smell. I would try not to drive the car until it's fixed just to be safe.

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by Treyz

Here's a funny thing. The night that this all started on, it happened again tonight a week later. Found out that it's the fog light system fuse. For some reason it has to do with the inline fuse.

I have the DLAA aftermarket ones. I connected it exactly to the DIY that was written before the hack with v2 so that I can get the foglight indicator on the cluster to work. Anyone else with the same fogs experience this?

Now I'm gonna have to go through the connections again.

That's kind of scary - Sounds like the fuse may have a higher rating than the wire connected to it, or there may be a bad crimp of the wire to the inline fuse holder. What is the rating of the fuse, and what size is the wire ("nn AWG" typically printed on the insulation every couple of inches)?