95 Subaru Legacy running lights

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• 93tracker5spd Member Posts: 194

  October 2015

  Hello! You don't say why you replaced the relay, but as a general rule relays don't go bad unless they are being overloaded. And if you replaced the bad relay and didn't solve the overload that caused it to go bad in the first place, then I would say the same problem which effected the first relay is starting to come back by overloading the new relay. As to what is causing the overload in the relay; I would really need the vehicle present to say for sure. But I would start by assuming there is a short in the dash/marker light circuit. Start with the fuse block, isolate that circuit, make sure the fuse is good, and not jumped, in other words wrapped with aluminium foil or some other method. Make sure all grounds are clean and tight, yes, a ground can cause such a mystery and many others, grounds are there to complete a circuit and are just as important as the feed wire. Pick up a cheap battery powered cotinuity tester and with the vehicles battery ground wire disconnected, test the feed wires in that circuit, if the light comes on from a non powered feed wire, you have found your short. This is not definitive by any stretch as electrical problems carry their own personality and I would have to be able to access the vehicle to know. But it is somewhere to start.

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