Saturday, I had to drive an hour back from my friend’s house without my car stereo. Somehow, a piece of metal got lodged in the accessory plug, shorting out the plug the car stereo are on the same fuse.
I haven’t seen the piece of metal before (shown above with the blown mini-fuse). It isn’t part of anything I plug into my car. I don’t know where it came from or how it came to be in the accessory plug.
Luckily, I knew how to disassemble my dash and was able to remove the plug to get at the offending metal more easily. I also took the opportunity to improve some of the connections on my stereo.
Still, it is strange.