First of all thanks for looking. I'm having this problem and really don't know where to look. I cheked the fuses and they are all ok, instrumentation and warning ligths all work fine, climate controls and indicators all work fine. But the illumination stoped working, when I turn on the head ligths the indicators on the ac buton reduce intensity as they should but the illumination don't work.

BTW: this started when I swaped my head unit for an aftermarket one, i ussed an oem style harness for the swap.

Any help will be greatly apreciated.

 

BTW this is in a 2000 Civic Dx coupe.

 

Anyone?

 

Could I be missing something? Can it be a bad relay or something?

 

This just happened to me a yesterday on my 2000 CX. I was installing a cd player too. It turned out to be the dimmer switch. What you should try is to remove the switch and jump the black and the red wire together. Leave the red/black striped wire alone.


The switch is pretty easy to remove.


Then see if your dash lights up.

 

Thanks a lot man i had a feeling about this but did not try, will definetly do now thanks.

 

no prob. let use know how it works out for ya.

 

Well tried and failed no illumination.

 

the orange wire or sometimes with orange/black wire is your problem...just hook to ground and should work...had same problem.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ’00civicex &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">the orange wire or sometimes with orange/black wire is your problem...just hook to ground and should work...had same problem.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Ok you mean orange wire on the head unit rigth?

 

Any other sugestions?

 

from my experience, just jumping the wires for the dimmer switch wont do a thing. For some reason, the circuit needs some resistance (the dimmer switch) in order to light up.

I would just start looking for a dimmer switch.

 

The same thing has happened to me I almost posative that it is the dimmer switch. go to a local tuning shop they are sure to have a used one and "switch" (LOL) em out.

 

Thanks for the replys guys I think I'll try this will let you know what turns out.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by civic_fan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">from my experience, just jumping the wires for the dimmer switch wont do a thing. For some reason, the circuit needs some resistance (the dimmer switch) in order to light up.

I would just start looking for a dimmer switch.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Correct, start by checking your dimmer switch