Help! Suggestions dash lights/tail lights don't work!

mirrortints · Feb 29th, 2004, 08:05 AM

Okay, I was messin around with putting some screw lights on my license plate yesterday and broke one of the wires for the screw light. There's a resistor on the screw light and that's where I broke the wire. So I decided to see if it would work without the resistor and suddenly it shorted something and didn't notice till I was goin out at like 10 when these lights wouldn't work. My front turn signals, my rear lights, and my dashboard lights. Since it was soooo dark, I tried to see which fuse had blown, but I could only find one in the interior, but that ain't help nothin.

So, what do I check first? I have an alarm and my turn signals and rear lights will blink when I arm/disarm my alarm. So I know that there is still power goin to em but now when I turn on my headlights(which work fine for some reason) What have I done? My stereo light works, my dome light and those little a/c and rear defogger lights on the dash work. My brake light comes on when I step on the brake, but not when I just turn on my headlights.

I guess if I got pulled over, could I use the excuse that I couldn't see the dash and maybe that's why I couldn't notice that I was doin 100?!

Gsolo · Feb 29th, 2004, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by mirrortints

Okay, I was messin around with putting some screw lights on my license plate yesterday and broke one of the wires for the screw light. There's a resistor on the screw light and that's where I broke the wire. So I decided to see if it would work without the resistor and suddenly it shorted something and didn't notice till I was goin out at like 10 when these lights wouldn't work. My front turn signals, my rear lights, and my dashboard lights. Since it was soooo dark, I tried to see which fuse had blown, but I could only find one in the interior, but that ain't help nothin.

So, what do I check first? I have an alarm and my turn signals and rear lights will blink when I arm/disarm my alarm. So I know that there is still power goin to em but now when I turn on my headlights(which work fine for some reason) What have I done? My stereo light works, my dome light and those little a/c and rear defogger lights on the dash work. My brake light comes on when I step on the brake, but not when I just turn on my headlights.

I guess if I got pulled over, could I use the excuse that I couldn't see the dash and maybe that's why I couldn't notice that I was doin 100?!

that excuse won't work. I would say it sounds like a fuse. You also could have blown a wire itself somewhere. Good luck, these kiind of problems are a pita