I installed a cd deck in my car today, and everything seemed to go well until the sun set and I realized I couldn't see my speedometer! I've checked all the connects behind the radio where it connects to my wiring harness, and double-checked to see if all the plastic connectors were in tight, and they were, and yet still no lights. I also looked in the fuse panel and practically checked every fuse to make sure none were blown. Any ideas?!

 

Since you didn't mention it, did you check the brightness control for the dash lights? If that's ok, are you sure that the dimmer wire on your radio (usually orange) is hooked up to the correct wire on the harness? One other thing, did you also check the fuses under the hood?

 

I dont have the orange wires hooked up to anything, because I didnt see any that matched...

 

Ok, the orange wires say 'illumination' on them, but what are they supposed to be hooked up to? All the other colors are being used...

 

Did you use an aftermarket harness to plug into your factory harness? If so, the wires are labled (and pretty much standard colors for all radios) so you just wire the aftermarket radio wires to the harness and then the harness plugs in to the factory one.

Not connecting it would not be a problem, the problem would be if you connected the wrong wire (like a power wire) to the factory wire for dim control. I'm speaking from cars in general but I'm 95% sure that the Max had a dimmer when I installed my stereo in it.

 

Yeah, miswiring may be the culprit. I soldered mine when I did it, but I guess I managed to get em right. Check the harness and make sure you didn't accidentally disconnect anything when you were pulling and pushing. That happens a lot too

 

I found it. The fuse is under the hood and is called 'Tail Lamps'. Go figure...

 

Yall are ALLLLLLLLL wrong.
It is the taillamp fuse. It controls the illumination once he shorted it out, he shorted out the taillamp fuse.

 

Dixit,

i must say...you prolly are the man on the whole org!!!
you seriously kick a$$!!!

 

Im just a freagin PEON on this org that gets no respect.

 

what fuse is for the clock and tripometer?

 

I was close!

 

Clock is Fuse # 12
Tripmeter is Fuse # 12 and #30

 

where would these fuse's be located?

 

Drivers left kick panel inside.

The numbers goes like this.



Dixit