# My Dad the Fuse Buster **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** cutlass, fuses, oldsmobile\ **Created:** [October 16, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173 "2009-10-16T14:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/21 "2009-10-18T20:07:20Z")
The parameter that you are missing and it is the most important one is that the problem occurs when “heavy dad” places himself on the passenger seat and slams the door. If the problem is simply chafing the fuse would blow on a simple opening of the door. I do discount the rainy or damp parameter and feel it is not a part in this problem. I would try and link the “heavy dad” in the mix somehow. ---
**Author:** ![tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tardis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tardis)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/22 "2009-10-18T22:39:09Z")
Maybe he shuts the door harder than anyone else does. Maybe he kicks his feet up under the dash. ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/23 "2009-10-19T01:52:40Z")
At times when customers bring you cars that show problems only under strict circumstances you must ask them to put on a “show” for you to see if you can get some clue. Anyone heard from OK4550? ---
**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/24 "2009-10-19T03:27:45Z")
You could be correct about the extra clues Oldschool. Whatever the trouble is, hopefully we can help get it solved for the OP. ---
**Author:** ![dougbq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@dougbq](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dougbq)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/25 "2009-10-19T15:23:40Z")
I am not such a mechanic, but I was wondering something. Is there some sort of seat belt sensor in this seat that a heavy guy might trip much more easily than others? If so, could this then have something to do with the problem? ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/26 "2009-10-19T16:30:09Z")
It is good to consider such possibilites, we must try and piece together why it is only happening when one paricular person sits in the passsenger seat, what is unique about what he is doing? ---
**Author:** ![xr71967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b9e5f3/32.png) [@xr71967](https://community.cartalk.com/u/xr71967)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/27 "2009-10-20T20:52:18Z")
I hate to be a knuckle scraper, but have you tried a slightly larger fuse? It probably won’t work, but it seems worth a try without a lot of effort or danger. ---
**Author:** ![tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tardis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tardis)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/28 "2009-10-20T20:56:13Z")
That depends on how much bigger. It is easy to start an electrical fire in the dash of a car, and it will quickly burn the whole car up. If the car is near a house or in a garage, then the house will burn too. I wouldn’t do it. ---
**Author:** ![Cougar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/cougar/32/21348_2.png) [@Cougar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Cougar)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/29 "2009-10-20T21:54:46Z")
I would check to see if there is a connector in the door jamb on the passenger side that ties to the wiring for the door. If there is one then disconnect it and see if the trouble still occurs. If it clears the trouble then you know where to look for the problem. I know some cars at least have a connector for the door but I’m not sure about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/30 "2009-10-21T12:47:59Z")
Cars are designed for their doors to be opened time and time again with no harness damage. I would not at all call it “common” to have a problem in this area I have seen it often enough to call it common. ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173/31 "2009-10-21T16:14:00Z")
Maybe you can just copy and paste your answer then Joseph, save you all that time answering like questions. [Previous page](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-dad-the-fuse-buster/38173.md?page=1)