Question on electical......please help!!!! Options

[dabazied]

Well as I've posted before, my dash lights don't work on my car so I have one of those ghetto rigged cig lighter plug accent lights to see it or just use my cell phone for light. When i say the dash lights don't work, I mean the ones that light up the gagues, all blinker, check engine, low gas, air bag and all other lights work on the dash. Also the lights that are supposed to come on as a "backlight" on my temp control(for heat and ac) doesn't come on, but when I press the buttons, those light up. This all started happening when someone put in a new cd player a while back. I was trying to clean up some wires so the interior wouldn't look so ghetto and found that a couple wires seemed loose. I looked under the hood and found these:

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Now, I know that the orange one should be hooked to the positive terminal since it has the little fuse connected to the wire, but I'm not sure about the green one and dont wanna mess anything up. Should the green one go to neg or pos?

Thanks for the help guys

*Editing was to fix the links to the pics*

This post has been edited by dabazied: Nov 11, 2007 - 1:30 PM

[AudioFreak]

My guess, based on the fact that the problem started when a new cd deck was installed and all the lights seem to be backlight related. Is the illumination/dimmer wire. I've seen cars do wacky things when the dimmer wire is hooked up incorrectly.

First thing I would do is pull the radio and disconnect the wiring harness. Hopefully there is a adapter harness and your stock wiring isn't cut. If not at least unplug from the back of the radio. Then try your lights. Also make sure the plug is seated in the dimmer switch. It needs to be connected.

The illumination wire you are looking for is green on the cars wiring and it should be a yellow wire on the radio. Check to see how it's hooked up. If it did get hooked up wrong it's possible the dimmer is shot. But not likely.


All of the lights are on the 7.5 amp "panel" fuse. Should be under the hood. I know you have said you checked/pulled everyone. Did you check them by looking or with a meter. I've come across many fuses that look fine but don't test when using a meter. Since the problem has been around a while and you've checked as much as you have you really need to get back to basics and start from square one.

You may find the fuse bad replace it and it still doesn't work. There may still be a wiring problem.

I would disconnect the radio and replace the fuse to start and go from there.

Hope this makes sense... it's 3am and I can't think or see straight.