What's up guys! Advice is needed. Maybe somebody had this problem before...

I had this problem already several times during last 4 days but now every time.
When I try to start the car it starts and then stalls at once. "Engine cont." fuse is blown. I change the fuse and car either starts without any problem or fuse is blown again. The rating of that fuse is 10A. I went up to 20A and drove 2 days without a problem but yesterday it blowed as well. I suspected remote starter and disconnected it - no help.
Some first times "Starter" fuse was blown as well as "Engine cont." but not recently.

I replaced spark plugs yesterday because some of old ones had cracks in insulator. Sofar no problem yet but I don't think plugs were the reason.

Generally I traced wiring from the fuse to an inhibitor relay. It can be a suspect.
Or alternator. But before I'll dig into those I'd like to ask for your advice.

What do you guys think? Any advice is appreciated.

 

You obviously have a short somewhere.
I'd start looking for a wire that is chafed.
it's probably a power line grounding out against the body.

 

wierd...exact same thing happened to me 3-4 days ago ...after changing the fuse twice...its not happened again.

 

man, it's weird. In my case it happened much more than twice
What fuse did you get blown? "Engine cont" only or "Starter" as well?

Yesterday I swapped relays from suspect wiring lines to the ones from other lines. Let's see. But I don't believe that it'll resolve my problem.

Please keep me updated if it'll ever happen to you again.

 

on mine it was the engine control fuse as well !

but since then...so far so good ... i think that muffler shop mechanic was cursed .. lol

 

slightly off topic, but this may be a theft-deterrent, too: one could intentionally remove the starter and engine cont. fuses and the car is not going to move anywhere.

 

Yeah I've seen people do that.