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How do you test a car's fuses?

Model: (Various brands) Various
Part: Fuse box

A practical, simple but very effective way to test the fuses of a car is certainly the use of a test light with a cable. What the protagonist of the video does is this: he connects the black cable, negative pole, of the test light to the negative pole of the battery, then proceeds to check the fuses by placing the same test light, which acts as the positive pole, on the tabs of the fuses in question. Result? If the light contained in the aforementioned test light turns on, the circuit is closed, indicating that the fuse is intact, while in the absence of light the opposite, it is damaged.

Posted on 14 November 2025 by ScegliAuto

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