I did some basic maintenence this week and in the process ended up with new problems...

there was no reason/fault before the swaps, just the usual "I'm a guy, it's Springtime and I hate Basketball so let's do some basic maintenence on the ride" deal.

The basic Ceramic Fuse Pack sold on Ebay (probably same one sold on Fastlane and FCP) has the std white/red/blue ceramic fuses with a copper colored fuse metal.

The old fuses were same type Ceramic but had Grey lead looking fuse metal

When installed, the new fuses caused the Auto antenna, Alarm and radio itself to become intermittent, along with a few other wonky electrical problems....

I swapped them for new of same type, also cleaned the mating surfaces with Dremel using a stainless steel dome shaped brush. Same thing, same wonky electrics.

Today I swapped the old fuses back in, I didn't so any cleaning of the contact surfaces on the old fuses, nothing...everything came back to life.

WTF?
All fuses were swapped for same rating as installed.
No fuses were blown, none had separated fuse metal.
The damn things just didn;t work like the old ones.

Maybe the Grey lead colored fuse metal is softer and makes better contact? but I cleaned the fuse holder contact surfaces...

Took a Digital Amp meter and checked the resistance...AHA!!

The old fuses had almost no loss across the fuse (volts in vs volts out)...the "new" fuses with the Copper colored fuse metal had a loss of 30 to 40% (volts in vs volts out). Tried cleaning the ends with emery cloth, and they came up to 25% avg voltage loss...

Again ...WTF?

No idea where they were made but I ain't buying them anymore.