The invention discloses an automotive circuit detector, comprising a shell, a multimeter printed circuit board and a battery are arranged in the shell, the shell is a structure with small front part and big rear part, a towed-line hanger and a probe are arranged at the top part of the shell, a head lamp is arranged in front part of the shell, a trigger, an non-polarity light-emitting diode, a test lamp, a rotary switch, a plurality of detection gears controlled by the rotary switch, a lighting switch, multimeter use functional keys and a display are sequentially arranged at the rear part of the shell from forth to back in a zoning way, an anode pen and a cathode pen are arranged at the tail part of the shell, a return spring is arranged on the trigger, the trigger is compressed to push a connecting rod connected with the trigger, so as to drive the probe to be pushed out along a probe sliding groove in the shell. The automotive circuit detector can accurately detect the fault position of the automotive circuit, multiple gears are arranged to be suitable for detection of various faults, the usage is convenient, safe and rapid, and the detector can be well suitable for various maintaining environments, thereby being applied to maintenance of the automotive circuit and being applied to relative decoration relative to the automotive circuit.