I have a 91 civic std and the dash lights are not working. The guy that had the car before me tried to fix it by splicing into about 5 wires behind the dash and one wire going to the rear taillights. In school I reattached all the wires back to stock. So now my dash lights don't come on. I checked the power coming into and out of the dimmer switch with multimeter and its good. All the power and grounds tested out ok going to the dash cluster as well. One thing I don't understand is there are two wires going to the bulbs in the instrument cluster. Both have power. I would think one would be a ground. They are both blue wires. One of the bulbs is dead but I would think the other would work. At the end of class I even had my electrical teacher take a look at it and he couldn't figure out why the dash lights don't come on. I am stuck. I was thinking of trying to ground one of the blue wires that goes to the bulbs but ran out of time in class. Could that be it or something else? Any suggestions would be appreciated? I need to fix my car so I can trade my buddy for 2 crxs. Thanks

 

If the bulbs are wired in series and one bulb goes out then the other bulb won't light. Get a new light and see what happens

 

I have a 97 civic, and i am having the same problem....the dash lights and climate control lights are out...all other lights work including cd player...all fuses check out good. Havnt checked the bulbs or the relays...any suggestions??

 

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The first thing I would check is the dimmer switch

 

check the fuses under the hood and recheck the ones in the car with either a meter or a test light. do not look at the fuse and go "looks good", actually test both sides of the fuse with the probe and make sure power is on either end of the fuse. Sometimes a fuse can look good and be bad and thats a sure way to tell. And whoever said if one bulb goes out they all go out, thats just simply not true. Ive worked on dozens of civics that people fucked up when trying to install their stereo and blow a fuse and both the dash lights and the tails dont work. For all you know as well since the person before tried to wire around the problem the fuse may be completely removed from its location so maybe check that as well.

HTH

 

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The first thing to do here is swap out the dimmer switch for one that you know works. So at least you can rule that out before you proceed with driving yourself nuts.

 

I've checked the dimmer switch with a multimeter, it has power going into and out of the switch so I don't think it is the switch. I will try my friends switch just for ***** and giggles soon. Friday I have my electrical class so I will work on it more then but I don't know where to even look since I tried everything I could think of.