[404dare]

I recently bought a brz from Craigslist and totally forgot to check the lights before buying the car (because it was daytime). Rookie mistake on my part, however, I bring the car home to realize the tail light running lights and the license plate lights don’t work. When I took the bulbs out of the plate lights, they were cracked so I tried replacing them, putting a new fuse in, and hoping it would work. It didn’t. The fuse pops under the dash whenever I turn the lights on. The break lights and blinkers work perfectly, however, may it be a possibility the DRLs don’t work because I don’t have front headlights in? If that’s not an issue I believe it may be a grounding issue or a short somewhere in the tail light wiring or the plate light wiring, but before I go digging through the car, is there anything else I could try or may have forgotten to do? Any help is greatly appreciated.