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Old 08-25-2011, 11:05 PM
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The quickest way to solve this is to take a 12V test light and start at one end or the other -- at the rear lights or the headlight switch and see where you have power and where you don't. A quick way to check for a bad ground is to provide a substitute ground straight from the lamp socket to a known good ground.

Fuses can look fine and still be bad -- check for power on both sides of the fuse.

You can use a voltmeter, but it's easy to get fooled if the circuit isn't complete. With a test lamp you're actually proving that the circuit can supply some current, whereas a voltmeter doesn't draw enough current to load the circuit properly.

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