Hey

Had a problem with blowing my dash light/parking light/license plate light fuse. Shortly after on my way home my turn signals also stopped working. I replaced the headlight/turn signal switch thinking maybe that was the problem but no luck. Does anyone know where the grounds are for this system are? Or anything I can look for? Please help and thanks in advance!

 

Also the hazard buttons still work so the flasher unit is fine. I can't figure out why these would work while the turn signals wouldn't.

 

Bump!

 

Well as long as I have a good fuse the turn signals work (although they did for awhile after I blew the fuse the first time???). The parking lights are all fine and not blown.

I am blowing the fuse as soon as I turn on the parking lights/dash lights. I swapped out the gauge cluster with no change. If anyone has some other ideas I would be greatly appreciative. I am guessing its the wiring but I can't find anything under the dash or around the sockets that would indicate it so it might it just have been in a random spot.

 

I am having this same issue today, but on a 2000 Accord LX. I have spent several hours today, and can't figure it out.

Symptoms: no parking lights(including license plate light), and no dashboard backlight, but headlights, hazards, & turn signals work fine

I have tested all my fuses, relays, bulbs, and the switch, all are fine.

 

unplug all of the lighting, then start plugging stuff back in one by one. simple process of elimnation

 

do you have an aftermarket radio? if so the wire to dim the face at night is not used on many radios and is sometimes just cut and left back there. check to see thats its not grounded out and blowing the fuse. i have seen this a bunch of times with hack job short circuit city jobs

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Crx Jimmy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do you have an aftermarket radio? if so the wire to dim the face at night is not used on many radios and is sometimes just cut and left back there. check to see thats its not grounded out and blowing the fuse. i have seen this a bunch of times with hack job short circuit city jobs</TD></TR></TABLE>Ahhh! I recently had a deck installed by best buy and he left a bunch of **** in my car from the install (scrap wire and stripped sleeving) and I wouldn't pass that past the guy that did it. It doesn't dim when I turned on the lights before so I would imagine it wasn't stuck into anything and that could be the problem. I will definitely look into that tomorrow. Thanks!

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by NastyHabitzCRX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">unplug all of the lighting, then start plugging stuff back in one by one. simple process of elimnation</TD></TR></TABLE>
So say I unplug all the necessary things connected in circuit and then turn on the parking lights and plug each light in one by one and go til the fuse blows again would that show me where the problem is?

Thanks so much for the responses!

 

Same problem, been told that there's suppose to be a parking light relay that needs to be checked but i haven't been able to find it. Mine's a 1993 Civic.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Crx Jimmy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do you have an aftermarket radio? if so the wire to dim the face at night is not used on many radios and is sometimes just cut and left back there. check to see thats its not grounded out and blowing the fuse. i have seen this a bunch of times with hack job short circuit city jobs</TD></TR></TABLE>

Happened to me

 

Well pulled the deck out and the wire wasn't grounding out but I ended up finding out/remember after reading some post about the parking light relay that the foglights were integrated into the system. Light went off in my head and I had an extra set of everything. Turns out my switch went bad. I am sick of those cheap ebay/non oem foglight kits so I am just ditching it. Thanks for all your response!!!