alright well i had a friend tell me that i could wire my side markers to be on with my parking lights, and also blink with the turn signal.
so i wired accordingly to what he had told me. power to red wire, ground to black wire, and splice the red wire with the green wire.

turned on my lights and head a few fuses blow.

at that point i couldn't signal, parking lights didn't wok, all the guages didn't work and had no lights for the guages. only my low beam and high beam headlights, and brake lights work.

replaced numbers 15 and 19 fuses under the dash, and found out i think number 19 was used with a 20amp fuse instead of a 10amp like it should o been using.

my guages are now working and i can signal, but i still have no lighting for the cluster or the parking lights.

any ideas where i should start?

 

start with the mod you did in the first place, the wires you spliced, if it happened right after you were messin with it its probably the culprit...if its not, start pulling all of the bulbs and check for power and continuity

 

sorry forgot to add that.
after i heard the fuses blow i thought well that shouldn't have happened and wired back to how i had it before. power to power and ground to ground.

front corner bulbs are good, and rear bulbs are good. but i haven't had the time to check to side markers yet.

i've never had a short before, and im guessing i'll have to redo the wiring somewhere. could you give me a better definition of it?

i just have no clue on where to start at looking through the wiring

 

pull out all the bulbs on that cicuit first....put one bulb back in its spot and turn the lights on....if the fuse does not blow, put another bulb in and turn the lights on, if that bulb blows, check the wiring all the way to the fuse box and from there to the battery

 

wiring is not my forte. so should i buy one of those clear screwdriver looking things with a light that detects power?

what am i looking for when i end up going through the wiring from the tail lights forward? i don't really know the definition of a short

none of the bulbs are blown and when i turn the lights on no fuses blow.

 

oh no fuses blow?....ok, so you just have your cluster and parking lights not coming on.......hold on, what all is on that circuit...do you know?

 

like i said wiring is not my forte so im not sure what exactly you mean by what circuit but i do know that number 15 fuse controls clock, guage assembly, hazard switch, back up lights, interlock system, and integrated coontrol unit.


number 19 that was also blown controls dash lights, dimming signal, parking lights, tail lights, license plate lights, console lights, and option connector d.

forgot to add my car is a 93 civic dx, and my license plate lights also aren't working

 

well, i just heard that if i had a short, that everytime i turned my lights on, a fuse would blow, which is not the case. i just replaced the fuses, and i can turn my lights on and off without it blowing, they just don't come on

checked all the fuses in the engine bay fuse box also.




Modified by EcivicG at 11:44 AM 6/20/2008

 

^^top

 

anybody? trying to figure this out, so i i don't have to end up paying 80 an hour for a wiring tech.

 

bump.

 

any help?