General Maxima Discussion This a general area for Maxima discussions for all years. For more specific questions, visit one of the generation-specific forums.

My Dash lights are out......helpa me see again!!!

Thread Tools
 
Search this Thread
 
Old 04-27-2001, 07:06 AM
  #1  
Senior Member
Thread Starter
 
BRIGBOY's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,397
My lights behind the dash went out mysteriously. Well, actualy I was fiddlin with the wires to my CD player and I made a few changes, when I closed it up and went for a ride I realized my guages were dark. So I changed the wires back to how they were, and this didn't fix it.

When I put my lights on, the car isn't recognizing they are on, because the clock doesn't dim and the guage lights don't come on. Plus side, the clock stays bright with the lights on, down side I cant see how fast I go. Its dark as hell in there with no lights.

Has anyone elses dash lights gone out before?

Thanks.
BRIGBOY is offline  
Old 04-27-2001, 07:42 AM
  #2  
Senior Member
Thread Starter
 
BRIGBOY's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,397
Yah ur right!!

Originally posted by yo_its_ok
Prolly blew a fuse when you did your CD player. You probably shorted out the power lead to your illumination on your CD player
Check your wiring again or look at the fuse panel and find out which fuse is blown.

-Peace

Thats what I was messin with, the illumination wire! I looked in the fuse box, but I don't know which one it could be. I guess theres 1 way to find out huh, ahhh the worst.

Thanks yo_its_ok.
BRIGBOY is offline  
Old 04-27-2001, 01:14 PM
  #3  
Donating Maxima.org Member
 
Ants97SE's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 1,121
Check the taillight fuse.
Ants97SE is offline  
Old 04-29-2001, 01:12 AM
  #4  
SLOW
iTrader: (23)
 
Nealoc187's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: West burbs, Chicago
Posts: 14,631
like he said

like was previously said, check the taillight fuse. in all my mazdas and hondas the dash lights were controlled by the taillight fuse... check it... while you think you may only have missing dash lights, you may have no taillights either. i found out the hard way about this... the cops nabbed me, gave me a warning though.

Neal
Nealoc187 is offline  
Old 04-29-2001, 06:17 AM
  #5  
Senior Member
 
Sonic's Avatar
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Westchester County, NY
Posts: 8,765
Yeah, the taillights and dashlights are wired so that when one trips, the other goes off too. Trust me, its happened to me before.
Sonic is offline  
Old 04-30-2001, 06:16 AM
  #6  
Senior Member
Thread Starter
 
BRIGBOY's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 1,397
Thanks for the replies.

It was the fuse. To easy for me to figure out, I'm not used to that. It was "INT ILL" for, you guessed it, internal illumination. Luckily about the third fuse i tried. Its cool how we have a few spares in there. I have extras that I got anyway so if anyone ever needs them incase they cant find them, just holler, or IM.
BRIGBOY is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
mvm062
Infiniti I30/I35
3
11-30-2020 09:00 AM
fastcarny
5th Generation Maxima (2000-2003)
2
10-06-2015 10:42 AM
rnb754
4th Generation Maxima (1995-1999)
6
09-14-2015 11:39 PM
Maxie40
General Maxima Discussion
1
09-14-2015 11:28 AM
Maxima30
5th Generation Maxima (2000-2003)
2
09-07-2015 06:13 PM



Quick Reply: My Dash lights are out......helpa me see again!!!



All times are GMT -7. The time now is 02:52 PM.