electrical issue

[kcollins1@socal.rr.com (Kevin Collins)]

It's been a bad couple of weeks for me and my cars.. first the Passat gets
crunched by a moronic teenager, now yesterday I picked up a nail in the 'roc,
which got thru the sidewall and toasted a perfectly good SP8000.  Now I'm
having to replace a pair so that I don't have 1 new one matched with three
half-worn ones.  America's Tire lent me a used 205/50/15 Kumho so that I
could get around while waiting for them to come in, no charge.. cool.

Then last night my stereo blew as I was blasting down the freeway minding
my own beeswax.  A glance down showed no clock either, so it was obviously
the fuse.  I yanked the offending fuse and it was rated 25A - checked Bentley
and stereo/clock/interior lights fuse should be 15A - uh oh, perhaps PO put
the higher rated fuse in because it was blowing them before?  Anyways 2
attempts to replace, 1st with a proper 15A then with a 20A when that one
blew failed; they both blew immediately when inserted.

Any idea where to check?  Nothing monkeyed with electrically in ages, the
stereo stuff has been there w/o problem for some time.

--
Kevin Collins
Huntington Beach, CA
'86.5 16V 2.0
'00 Passat GLS 1.8T