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[Brilliant]

I was tapping my cig lighter, both the power and the light, and now my cluster is dark. In fact all the dimmed lights are dark (AT, cluster, climate, etc). I think I let one of the bare spliced wires touch the metal.

I lock the vehicle the blinkers dont flash, but they work when I use signals. The cluster non-dimmed lights work fine. The cig lighter has power still.

I replaced the gauge and acc fuses, not working.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[t4r4life]

blue 15 amp fuse under the steering, its call acc

 

[zacattack20]

Could have blown the rheostat/dimmer switch. I did that before and all the lights that could be dimmed wouldnt work. Check it by bypassing the dimmer switch and see if the lights would work then.

 

[Brilliant]

blue 15 amp fuse under the steering, its call acc

Already did that and said so in post 1! =}

Could have blown the rheostat/dimmer switch. I did that before and all the lights that could be dimmed wouldnt work. Check it by bypassing the dimmer switch and see if the lights would work then.

OK, I'll jumper that. Thanks

 

[steezemcqueen]

Fuse marked TAIL in the fuse box under the hood.

 

[Brilliant]

Fuse marked TAIL in the fuse box under the hood.

:trophy::trophy::trophy::trophy::trophy:
Thanks a lot, that was it.


I have a follow up question though.

The gauge I am connecting has 4 wires, 1 sender, 1 ground, 1 power, 1 dimmer.

Someone said that the dash lights are wired in that if I tap the light dimmed wire off the cig lighter and run it through the gauge to ground I might pull too much amperage and cook the rheostat.

Is this true?