The other day I took out my stock cd player and put in an alpine. When I was done I noticed that my gauge lights, climate control, and P,R,N.D, etc. (it's an automatic) lights were all out. My guess is I knocked the ground loose but I have no idea where the ground is or if that is even the problem.

All help appreciated, sorry if this question is 'noob' but I've been looking every where and checking everything I thought could have been wrong.

 

check grounds and/or fuses. could of shorted something out. check the fuse box under the dash, as well as the one under the hood. for the hood your going to look for the 7.5 fuse.

 

Blown Fuse. Take off the fuse cover just below the steering wheel on the left side. Read the fuse diagram inside the door. It should be a 10A fuse for the license plate light/tail lights/accent lights (or something to that affect). That happened to me today. This is just my guess... I could be wrong.

 

Thanks to both of you. Both were right. Checked the fuse(7.5), it was fried. Put in a new one, fried it. Turns out the ground was bad.

Thanks again.