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Originally Posted by ryanheacox
Normally this isn't very dangerous but one night I was driving home and forgot about the intermittent short in my dash light and when I went to turn it on I blew the fuse and lost everything.
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Not disputing your overall point at all, but in this particular case I think it would have been unlikely that someone (who didn't already know there was a short there) would have fused that individual circuit. The dash light comes off the ammeter, which is right after the starter and before the junction of the lights and ignition. In order to isolate that one component you'd have to put a fuse inside the instrument panel or run wires from the ammeter back to a fuse box and then back up to the dash light. I mean someone certainly could do that, just seems unlikely they'd bother.