A friend of mine asked me to take a peek at his car when his speedo went out. He mentioned the turn signal were also not working, so immedieately I thought of checking the fuses. I opened the fuse panel and started a visual check of the fuses. First thing I noticed is that the car had GBC fuses, cermaic torpedo looking things. They all looked good. I then tracked down the one for the turn signals and pulled it out for a closer inspecition. When I pulled it out one end was stuck in the socket and broke off. In order to get him home safely, this fuse also controlled his brake lamps, we pulled a high beam fuse of the same rating and put it in the socket. I recall these were on my '74 Fiat X1/9 and they were known to go bad in this fashion. I replaced all the ceramic ones with glass fuses that wouldn't have the same problem. I suggested my friend replace all of his ceramic fuses with glass ones. The problem is that none of the car parts places I have been to carry glass GBC fuses. They only carry the prone to failure ceramic ones. Anyone know of a source of glass GBC fuses?
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