for those of you that work at a toyota/scion dealer can you give me an estimate on how much it will cost for parts and labor to replace a whole fuse box in a 09 tC?

Thanks

 

...so about that Hyundai Genesis...

 

Ouch, Cory - that's a major wiring harness job - I won't even ask why.

(Thought about junkyard?)

 

Something go wrong with the wire tuck? Or is this cause of soemthing trying to do with the wire tuck?

 

the fuse box, dude your wires should be fine why dont' you just go to a junkyard and clip one and splice them all, a bit of work but better than spending a crapload of money to reinstall a wiring harness right?

 

yea i thought about the junkyard option, thats gonna take forever though and i need my car ASAP, its a DD and i have a crazy work and school schedule.

guess ill have to get someone to drive me around to junkyard tuesday to see what i can find.

and to those that are wondering what happened, yes, wire tuck gone wrong. lol

the fuse box was way to low and half of my fender liners were are missing from being slammed so the fuse box got a little condensation in it and messed up a bunch of the relays.

 

condensation? condensation is always around though, regardless of location...have you been through a puddel or near a puddle or driven in the rain lately?

 

Thats sux man. Hope you get it fixed soon. GL and congrats on making Moderator!

 

haha it poured a whole day here and i was driving in it.
im not talking a little condensation, im talking like enough that the whole inside of the fuse box a layer of ice on it when i took it apart last night.

 

goddamn! O_O i'm sealing mine up haha PLASTIC BAGS + ZIPTIES FTW!

 

Chances are the fuse block itself is OK, and just the relays are hosed.

If you can un-plug all fuses and relays, then blow it out with high pressure air, the fuse block itself is probably OK (I'd probably give the interior of it a light shot with WD-40 and blow it out again - WD-40 was originally developed to displace moisture...).

Once you have it dried out, you should be able to plug in new relays and the original fuses to see if you are back in business.

(I used to be a 4X4 type - two jeeps, six Land Cruisers, and an Explorer, and that's how we used to handle that sort of problem.)

Edit: Oh! One more thing - try to keep from getting it wet again.

 

DONT!
move it back right now!
i had mine covered with a heft black garbage back and duct tape everywherrre and water still somehow got in.
when i took the plastic back off, huge chunks of ice actually fell out.
theres really no way to completely seal it because no matter what you will have holes in the bag so that the mounting brackets can go through and so all the wire can come out the top.

 

i will def. be moving it up higher either tonight or on tuesday.
i left the heat on in the garage all night yesterday so the block is dry already, but theres a bunch of nasty lookin stuff inside it. (it looks like oxidation but its blue)

im gonna really tear it apart and clean the hell out of it and if that doesnt work, im gonna get a new one from a junkyard.

 

i live in arizona or vegas.
what is water?
what i don't get is why it's ok i the bay as opposed to near the wheelwell if you create a shield around it to keep water from splashing onto it

 

Good luck!

First time I had that happen to me was about 4500 feet up in the Cascade Mountains, fording a river in my first Land Cruiser. Blew it out with a hand tire pump, sprayed the heck out of it with WD-40, blew it out again, was back in service. Otherwise I'd have had to hike out.

http://tijil.org/FJ40.jpg

 

well im missing half my fender liner from tuckin so mine was pretty damn exposed.

 

Hieu, it sounds like he may have it mounted inverted as well as very low...

 

i'll figure it out =) thanks for being the pioneer! saves me the trouble xD

i have absolutely NO splashguards ANYWHERE on my car, too cumbersome.

 

this is an old pic, but its the general spot where its located, i just made some brackets and secured it since then.

 

yea, see, i don't even have the wheel covers...you should have put it right up against the fender, and built a box around it so water coulndn't splash up onto it