DMStager

95 Honda Civic Ex
SRS, turn signals, and battery light are the only things that work. No speedometer, thermostat, anything with a needle.
We've looked at fuses, some of the main wiring and even trying changing the cluster but nothing works.
Any suggestions?

92eg412

im havin the same f***in problem and its pissin me off the only thing that works is the battery light and the hazard flashers but the turn signals dont. have you had any success?

GSREXMan

Hey man u not the only one got the same problem in ma car .

xwhitchx

haha i have had that happen to me well i was hard wireing my blinkers, its just a fuse in side the car, i dont remember what one but its one of them.

TravisCadello

this is how my 92 EG Sedan was when I bought it. I finally slowly figured out each one of them. the first one i fixed was the temp needle. the sensor under the distributor was disconnected. after that i pulled the cluster and found 2 cut wires. i taped them together and BAAAMMM i was happy that day cause i finally knew how much gas i had. then only thing left was my MPH gauge. one day i swapped motors and did a 5spd swap and the Speed0 worked on its own. so im guessing my speed sensor in the automatic was bad.

And the Tach always worked. that was the only needle that worked.

I know how you guys feel not knowing how much gas you have lol.

TravisCadello

check yalls wires in the back of the cluster cause mine were rubbing against the dash board on a sharp edge causing them to slowly come apart. they made the wires a bit to short.

92eg412

hey man i figured it out, i had alot of wiring problems the last couple days but i checked all my fuses before or so i thought. check the back up light fuse under the dash. i didnt know that this fuse had anything to do with the cluster but i checked it and it was blown so i replaced it and like magic it worked, also make sure your hazard light button is plugged in cause i read some where if thats not connected the gauges wont work. gl

DMStager

Thanks for all the help. We'll try it once we get it back (clutch and flywheel is being replaced) in a day or so. If we need any more help, we know where to find you!

BTW 92eg412, our turn signals didn't work, but all we had to do was replace the flasher unit. Sometimes the simplest things just really irritate!

JLCoolman

sorry to bring this back up, but got a very similar problem that is a combination of most of the stuff mentioned in here

my friend has a 93 civic ex, we recently did a motor swap from an '00 gsr integra into it
we're using a OBD1 P72

now here's were things get a bit complicated
before the swap and when the EX was still running, it's gauge cluster worked fine, i'm pretty sure everything on it worked originially, although it had some indigo gauges from a previous owner
so at some point in time when the car was still running on the z6 motor, my friend tried to wire in the '00 gsr's cluster into the EX, but couldn't get it to work, cause he didn't have the correct wiring diagram
so now, after the motor swap was done, i re-wired the gsr cluster using a 98-01 diagram, but the cluster still didn't work after that besides the oil light coming on at initial start-up and the srs light coming on and staying on, along with the cluster not working, his turn signals didn't work, his rear lights didn't work, and his reverse lights didn't work, nor did his license plate lights
so i went to check fuses, the one fuse for the instrument cluster/reverse lights/license plate lights was blown, so i replaced that, and only the license plate lights started working, no cluster functionality or reverse lights
i got his rear lights working somehow, by wiggling the bulbs/sockets in the rear tails

alright so now, we tried putting the stock eg cluster back in after sourcing some spare cluster plugs for both the EG and the GSR (my friend had thrown away pins and some pins were messed up, etc. = big headache and grateful to Steve at Hmotors for helping out with the plugs)
had removed the indigo glauges (that didn't even work and were grounded in a weird way to the ground wire for the cluster, the ground wire consisted of three connected sections at this point)
so we got the eg cluster wired up correctly, and fixed the ground wire
still no good, only thing that the cluster does now is battery and oil light come on at initial start-up as does the srs light (can't remember if the srs light goes off or stays on), the seatbelt light works too, the highbeam light will come on with high beams, pressing the hazard button will get the turn signals to flash on the car and the cluster (cluster has a blown bulb for the right signal though), oh and the cluster itself lights up and the dimming functionality works too
and i think that's all that works for now
haven't had much time to diagnose
but as of now, no speedo, no tach, no temp, not sure about fuel, no turn signals, no trunk open light, no e-brake light, the CEL doesn't come on at initial start-up
and the car still has no turn signals or reverse lights

now, when i get a chance, i'll go through and check all fuses, and check all sensors, especially VSS, there might be some coolant in it but i don't think so, i'm pretty sure the ecu is plugged in correctly, cause it should be a simple plug and play obd1 p72 into an eg civic with a gsr motor
the cluster harness looks fine, but i'll take another look at it


but any ideas or advice would be greatly appreciated

Former User

All of your current problems can be explained by having a blown 10A fuse #15 under the dash.

JLCoolman

that's the one for the instrument cluster/reverse lights/license plate lights
i checked it before, and it was blown, i replaced it, and i'm pretty sure it's not blown anymore, since the license plate lights work now

also the gauge cluster does light up (the back lighting)

but like i said, i'll go through and check all the fuses again when i get a chance

thanks for the input

Former User

No, you replaced dash fuse #19. I am talking about dash fuse #15.

If fuse #19 is good, then you probably have a bad dimmer switch.

JLCoolman

oh ok, i'll definitely have to check that out when i get a chance

what is the label for #15?


and thanks for posting up the picture of the under dash fuse box

also, the dimmer switch is working


hopefully things will work out though

thanks for your help, i'll post up how it goes

95whiteeg6

sorry to bring this thread back up from the dead but im having very similar problem with my 1995 honda civic vx hatch i have checked fuses, grounds everything u name it i have check so any help would be very much appricated thank u

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

You checked the fuses how? A visual inspection or did you use a tester? You say your problem is similar? How similar? How is it different? Your issue COULD be different enough that it warrants a different fix. Please provide all details if you are going to bump old threads.

95whiteeg6

I will double check all fuses today with test light, my cluster is still the stock eg cluster but nothing works on besides the battery light and srs light but nothing else won't work the clock does not work either so I am having almost the Excact problems as said OP

Axix24

My SRS light on my gauge cluster doesn't light up when the key is turned, any ideas? It works with my other gauge cluster.

Former User

Was the bulb removed? Bulb blown?

Axix24

New bulb

tony_2018

What cluster did the working cluster come out of, and what cluster with non-working srs come out of? Details

ArtaNSX

Sorry to bring this thread back up. But I'm having problem with my MPH meter in my 1995 Honda Civic EX 4-door it will move all over then dies out and won't move anymore. Is it because of my speed sensor malfunctioning?

Former User

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