 as you can see as soon as I turn the key on the camera did not come on let's figure out what's going on to do a little troubleshooting with this so this lights on that means it's getting power right so why is this not kicking on when you turn the key on now this light that just means it's getting power but how much power is it getting well I've already checked check that see this is 12 volt I've checked that it's only getting like 11 volts out of it should be getting upwards around 12 to 13 minimum when it's running it may jump up to about 14 but I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong with this because I've had this problem before I had to deal with on a Toyota Corolla I think it was or maybe a Camry that it was putting out juice but just not enough so I'm gonna leave that key on I'll show you where to check this that all right so out here on these Toyota Tacomas I think it's what from 90 98 to 2004 I know that'll work it's pretty much the same but these Toyota Tacomas it's the 2.4 4 cylinder right under here if you look this is your distribution box is what it's called it's also another see it says power outlet 15 amp right here okay so that would be it should be that one there so let me turn this key off I'm guessing this fuse right here is blown that looks like that looks like one of them light up fuses I don't know why it's not lit up but if I plug something in it may let's see here let's go ahead and plug this back in the key is on okay no I don't see it lit up okay let me grab I got my needle nose here yeah okay yeah it is lit up can you see that it's lit up that means it's blown guys now not all fuses do that but these expensive ones do so let me see I got one up here because I do have some fuses there it's a 15 amp and already had them out because I know what it's supposed to take and besides the ceiling fuses I've got now let's stick this in there okay the camera did kick on and it is recording because off now that light will come on that light will come on or the camera will come on so that was the issue it just wouldn't put enough up through now the top one I think the fuse if I remember right over here now if we pulled out of the top one put it in here nothing okay so what we're gonna do is let's check check this fuse panel here so if I can get you get you guys back here a little farther down there we go there we go alright so it doesn't say it in here on this like this but it does have a power for 30 amp now up here it says power 30 amp but as you can see it doesn't have one up there which is weird okay so this this one here the top one is for the ECU this one's for the horn and hazard lights okay there's your stop lights this your STA so it's got all four of those but it don't have a power one on top okay so I'm not sure what's going on with that but over here in the middle one it's supposed to have ACC it's supposed to be 15 amp I see there's a 30 in there let me grab my pliers and I'm gonna pull this 30 amp out and see what what that's okay the 30 amp is blown so I'll bet you that's for that top power or cigarette lighter okay it is calling for a 15 amp so we have those have another one right here let's stick this in here and we might be able to get all three of them working because I think it was yesterday she's seen a car almost flip over and it almost hit a pedestrian of course she didn't have the dash cam because it wasn't working so now let's turn the top or turn the key on see if that top one kicks on and it didn't so that wasn't it so let's check further so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get my test light and I'll show you how to check each each one of these real easy if you don't have a multimeter but you have a test light so hang on let me grab my test light okay my test light here all right now this is pretty cool it will make a noise that comes with different tips this just unscrews out of here where you out of here just like that okay it's got one tip that I like that is for like if I got to check one of them wires there that's me I'm smoking let's say I got to check one of them wires and you guys know how many times you prick your finger well it's got a thing it goes around the wire and you just push it up and it pierces it that way you don't pierce your finger okay so let's get this turned on again okay we've got the key on now I got to find the ground hook my ground up let's find a good ground here I'm not sure if this is a ground but let's check okay so I'm gonna do that to every one of these fuses let's make sure the 15 didn't pop again okay I know it wouldn't be a 7 amp 15 now I'm pretty sure these are all good cuz horn works and slicers work now sometimes if you get one that don't work at all don't be alarmed it could only work when you have something turned on okay so that'll work except this one let's see I don't know what that's for let's put a fuse in there and see what's going on with that which one was it this one let's get a fuse in here yeah this see this is one of them light up fuses if you look in there I don't know if you cameras picking it up see out white spot in the center that's an LED that way if it blows out light will kick on so you see that light on they're good to have their pricey but they are good to have okay now let's check this okay still nothing on the top so let's nothing in that one okay there's supposed to be something in here but there's not so let's put another fuse in that which is weird because the top one always did work for a while and I didn't take any fuse out for any reason so okay still nothing on the top one check this bottom here nothing well something on this side but not this side so let's take this top one out I got more fuses but I don't want to use them all if they're not being used in the truck that could be for four-wheel drive though see we're yet right there see that top one says it's not being used it could be for for four-wheel drive okay nothing on the and take it out then there's nothing on the top so what we're going to do is I really want to get this top one working in order to do that we got pull this bezel off okay okay and we're going to check this okay and make sure see if that's working okay could have come unplugged I don't know but let's go ahead and pull this bezel off of here okay guys to take this bezel off it goes all the way up there there's two screws there's one right here one right here that will have to come out I think there's more down below so we're going to have to take this this piece off here which it just got these little inserts in there so let me let me grab a screwdriver and let's see if we can get those out of there I got a little straight screwdriver okay broke but that's you know that's what happens to these things so let's do the other one I might be able to get in from behind that's no big deal you can get those and I think I may even have some and push it but see I'm not strong enough with my fingers because it's real pointy it's not working I may have to break this one out just put a couple bolts in it here well I guess it pushes in that one's a little different okay so let's see what else is holding it up here there we go it just pops out I'll show you the clips right there one on over here there's the bottom one's there I'm gonna try to see any more yeah see there's a screw then the two up on top so let me get you set up over here so you guys can maybe see a little bit kind of hard to do inside this truck like this but I'm gonna try it try to film what I can for you I'm sure you you get the idea so I'm gonna take this bottom screw out here it looks like this should pop out of here but I don't know but let's see here let's get these screws out there's one I'm gonna have to use my stubby where's my stubby there he is this side and I can't get someone's gonna give me a problem so I'm gonna have let me get this thing out of the way a little screwdriver okay I want to show you guys something this thing you know you got to have the key on right get this thing pull it down here out of your way right but if I do that I can't get the key out okay let me show you something if you guys your batteries ever dead and it won't read your stir register that you got your foot on a break or anything like that on these Tacomas there's a little button right here okay well first I'm gonna pull the handbrake a little button there you push that button up here and set you down here okay all you do is you push that button you don't have to have your foot on break and that releases it okay I still haven't got that screw out so I'm gonna have to figure out something to get that screw out there to try to get this bezel off so I can get this out of here okay so let me go see what I got to try to get up in there vice groups I don't think is going to do it so let me do some checking and see what kind of tool I got to get up in there okay guys that screw does not have to come out apparently so this should just clip in here on the sides and up on top yeah okay let me check do some more checking on this it should just be clipped in like the bottom was I don't think there's any screws in here but we're gonna check let me check this before I break it okay I got some of our stuff out of her way I took the knobs off you seen that okay so this is going to have to come off and I'm betting their screws under there okay it just pops off just like that okay yes there's a screw right there couple over here so let's take some of them out and get you set up here you guys see let's take some of them out I know this one's open because I can see it about that later so looking like maybe this one we're just changing name cigarette left okay so okay I see that screw this is the switch for your airbag down here with the damn airbag switches the light for the cigarette or the ashtray so let me they should just twist and turn out okay well I'm not gonna mess with that switch up up there okay I do want to get this out of here and then I can pull this around and unplug this and we'll see what we're working with okay well I'm gonna plug it right here I just like to have more room to do things you know should just plug so what we're gonna do is we're gonna check this and see if we've got any juice to it it's got these little windows here you pop them open whoops you pop these little windows open right here and that's how you can tell you know to put your your tester in there so let me do that real quick okay guys I got them open I only need to check one one's a ground but you can check to just in case it's a bad ground but first I got the key on I'm gonna stick my whole my test light in this one white with the black line in it that's a ground so we need to check that too just in case so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna clip this this in here I'll show you here I got sweat lies angle just like this and my screwdriver I'm gonna put that into the ground I'm gonna put this one in here good okay so now I'm guessing there's a problem with this cigarette lighter here okay so I'm not sure how these come out and I really need to get this light out of here supposed to twist you're supposed to just be able to give them a twist and pull them out but apparently this one's not wanting to play nice so just gonna pry it out there there it is now it's just a clip in Jesus all right now let's get this out here where we can work on it a little bit okay I'm gonna shut the key off that's what we're looking at and you know what I'm gonna do guys I'm gonna go ahead and unplug that and then we're gonna take this put it on tailgate so we can work on a hang tight okay guys here's the cigarette lighter and you see on each side of here there's a clip like this that you got to pull out and that'll unlock it now on this side as you can see it's kind of hard to get to so if I'm sure this to you about getting in your way too much I got a little screwdriver that will go back to this other side to pop it like that and then now get this side pull it out there's that okay now let's see what else is holding this thing in here I'm on one keys out here these tabs here on the side I'm gonna have to try to figure out a way to squeeze them in or something to try to get this off hang on let me let me research this and I'll be back with you so it turns out I didn't have to research anything just push it down out of there so then I think we turn it turn it to that tab that tab and that slot line okay looks a little rusty inside there I don't know still what the issue is why it would stop working there's not much to them but worst comes to worst I will fabricate this one out of the Chrysler this is not a cigarette lighter it's just the outlet this is actually for a cigarette lighter so say it clips it in this is just an AC outlet or power outlet not AC okay so I'm thinking I might be able to clean these tabs up and then we'll go from there let me get them cleaned up and see if it's going to work okay so what I did was I plugged this back in and I grounded it out here and check the power and the power did work when I switched around the other way it didn't so it's telling me the ground part the casing is grounding like it should so there needs to be a say that you're 12 volt there at your power so there needs to there there has to be something inside of here that's not working right and I'm betting looks to me like that wire right there so it looks like that's burnt you know right here that's supposed to be connected what causes that a lot of times people plugging in things that don't work or holding the lighter in too long it makes them weak so I guess and that's what the issue is here it burnt in half so if that's what happened kind of works like a little fuse so yeah that's that's the issue right there sit there's two need to be touching they're not that just look like a bunch of solder so what I'm going to try to do is I'm going to run something across here and then see if it works and if it does then I'll try to find a wire I don't want to get too thick I want it to be able to burn in half if it has to I may say that you know solder a fuse in there that would be a good idea so let's let me see what I got to fix this with okay I've got the key on I want to show you how I'm gonna test that I got the camera plugged in here okay now I'm gonna take and I'm gonna just short across here and I've seen something happening there it is it's kicking on see it okay so that's the issue so let's solder something in between there okay guys this is what I done I bridged that with a piece of bread tie okay it's doubled okay so what I did was I ran a test to see when that would burn okay this wire will burn in half at 20 amps alright which is good because a fuse pops at 15 since there's another fuse in it at 15 if for some reason it wouldn't pop if this gets gets to where it gets more than 20 amps this will burn in half you know it'll pop in half just like a few so it's it's essentially double fused just the single was 10 amp okay if I just ran it single cross it was 10 amp it would burn it half when I doubled it at 20 amps it started to get hot and then just bump burnt right off so that's what I did that's where the rest of the thing went that's how I checked it I think I've got a remnant of it right here I don't think it's gonna focus in on it but that's what I was testing with so yes this is perfectly perfectly safe I mean think about it this one don't even have one in it you know it just straight to power now it does have a few elsewhere but so this is I could have just ran anything across there but like I said I'd rather have it kind of like a fuse and that's like 20 amp it takes 15 to run this so we're good there so let's take it in and see if it works now it should because when I hooked this up to my jumpers on my battery it was working when I plugged something in here so let's make sure it didn't do anything to the inside when we was testing it before so let's go inside plug it in and check it out okay I've got the I've got the key turned on I'm plugging this in just like that now let's plug our camera in yeah like him oh yeah cameras on it's actually recording now let's shut the key off there we go all right let's get this thing put back together shall we let's go do this the while this is out I'm gonna go ahead and take that screw out of there and put it back in just in case I have to take this out for some reason who knows you know but just in case I'm talking about future references I'm going to go ahead and take that screw out of there and I'll probably have to use a small straight screwdriver which I can't do but let me grab some okay since I've got this out I can really get a bind on it hopefully let's try to take this screw out now well that's pretty tight okay that's all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna loosen it tighten it back up now let's get this back in here remember it's got this like tab here it's got to go into this slot and it just pushes in just like that okay now we're in there okay now we're just gonna give it a little twist so that way it locks itself in and it can't come clear out okay so that's good to go I am gonna pull bend these out just a little bit kind of help hold it in there now time to go put it back together guys oh wait this has got to go on I still don't know what this deal is for here so this got to go on oh it holds that one just like that okay so it does right now let's go back in the truck okay guys while it was out I went ahead and put the other screw back in here now we're gonna I'm gonna go ahead and pull this back down out of our way now I'm gonna plug the cigarette lighter back in I can wait on those ones I'm gonna go ahead and plug the the light it just snaps in apparently they used used to twist out but I never had one of these apart this far before so right now we're gonna plug the one I'm plugging the bag switch back in as you can see we got it turned off because I don't want that airbag blowing up my damn face you know what I mean if you ever had an airbag go off you'll know what I'm talking about them things deploy they deployed bad sometimes it does more damage than the actual accident so but I'm speaking from experience I've had to blow up on me a couple times not working on them but in actual you know hitting something or somebody hitting me or whatnot that just snaps in just like that there's only one screw down there the bottom that holds that damn thing it's in there get that screw in see much but it's down remember I got to use it I got to put a tab I think I'm just gonna get a tab for that because because I don't like the look of a bolt in there it's not supposed to be in there so that's no big deal I may have one in there I didn't know that one's pushed in but I do remember now some vehicles that I had to put I was working at fruit and pork trailers go check him out if you're in the area and you need a trailer when I was working there I remember now a couple of the newer cars they had to take these out of the the fascia down underneath to to take it off and whatnot and inside fender wells but usually they pop out instead of pushing in but apparently pop out you got reach your hand back in there they're ashtray and I do use it sometimes check the top one again I'm gonna have a whole bunch of crap on here because it starts recording as soon as you turn the camera on then once it's charged it'll it'll record 15 minutes after shut it off I also got it set to where like it's motion like if it's sitting still and somebody backs into her it'll it'll catch it okay let's turn this on yep I see lit up there it is okay now let's check the bottom ones and nothing pulled out you see that let's check the bottom ones okay so they all work great I need to check something else too I want to check this inverter okay the lights on I want to check and see if it's going to charge my phone it's charging my phone so the inverter is working I don't know if you can see that up there so yeah it's charging so that's good there's one more thing I want to check here I want to check this thing so no why is that like that oh I got to push them tabs out never mind okay I know why okay see that's lit up so let's see first my phone was that but that's a fast charger it charged my phone from completely dead to a hundred percent like an hour yes it's charging see right up there in the corner it's charging see which one unplug it so that's working so good monkey can can charge her phone still have the dash cam on I just had this stuff up in there here after a bit I'm not gonna bore you with it let's uh charging I just want to make sure me go close the hood whoops okay alright get adjusted a little bit for about right there this down back in here but this back oh I gotta put those screws back in up there I think has a couple LEDs well they're not LEDs they're a little tiny lights that are burnt out I think there's one here they're supposed to pull out I may have pulled this out and twisted out of the back I want to do that right now so that's all working that's too bad I was gonna put it in upside down one one is different from the other now what the hell I see that little metal ring that goes inside of here it stayed on the knob so or not the knob but no it didn't it may have fell down might be on the seat alright let me look for that can't have gone far and that's what it is that little metal see this has got see these got those that little metal ring inside there inside the D this one's missing so I've apparently dropped it down here somewhere I want to find that and I'll be right back with you guys hi guys so back together and I should still be working on that's lit up of course that's working so we're good to go guys okay guys pretty hot out here I'm gonna get some things done tonight I don't know if you'll see this before after but we're going to one have a campfire out back and do a live stream possibly sleep in the tent I'm gonna cook something I'm actually gonna do it in the stove my homemade stove I made out of the propane tank so we're gonna do that and so but right now I'm gonna go in get cooled off get something cold to drink and try to get this uploaded before you have another one stay tuned I don't know if I'll be able to get to it today or not but just stay tuned for it and I guess that's it enjoy the rest of your weekend appreciate you guys watching thanks remember Shaber the myth man legend I'm gone for now don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already and click the bell notification icon so you can get more get notified of more videos like this so thanks for watching guys I'll see you soon bye bye