Car: 02 Civic Si

I'm having an issue with my speed-o-meter ligts (right side, fuel gauge and oil temp gauge)

I'm using Ebay fog lights and there's a gray harness that goes into the fuse box to the Left of the brown plug that also came in the pack that goes into the fuse box.

I believe the gray harness is for the switch and it's a 4-pin i believe.

I placed it to the left of the brown plug in and the switch didn't work

So i came online and got the oem Civic Si installation manual and it indicated that there was an identical socket in the fuse box for the same size gray harness plug.
Which ended up being above the brown plug one slot to the right.

I successfully placed it into the socket and then proceeded to turn the car on and press the switch. When i did, the switch started to smoke, So i immediately disconnected it.

Gave up, and turned on my car and gave the lights a check, only to realize only the left side of my cluster was lighting up, the right side was not lighting up at all. Both the oil temp and Fuel gauge weren't on at all.

Does anyone have a method to this madness?

Could it just be the bulbs got burned out (short circuited)

Has anyone dealt with this or is anyone knowledgable of the fuse box and how things work.

 

Actually, the whole right side of the dash lights are gone as well.

 

ya man i feel your pain same thing happen to me i got the ebay fogs as well... im about ready to just get a new cluster!!

 

You burned out the tracers in your gauge cluster, it can be repaired but you need a very steady hand and a good soldering iron. There's a write up on ep hatch I think.

 

wow glad I spent the $$ for the OEM foglights.

And wtf is this oil temp gauge you're talking about? We don't have one of those.

 

You read my entire post and that's all you got from it? lend no type of hand, just that huh? that's all? really?

 

Thanks bro, i appreciate that, it gives some type of clarity. By any chance would u have the link to that, i'd be all over the ephatch site trying to find it but i forgot my s/n and password to the site it's been a long while..

I may have contradicted myself just now, i'd need to be logged on to even vew the link if u sent it to me. thanks though bro ill hunt t down.

 

ok i checked ephatch and no luck finding it. Anyone provide a link if possible i'll continue my search.

 

I could've just laughed at you, but instead I wanted to know what the *eff* you're talking about. Explain where this oil pressure gauge is please?

If you want to fix the burnt out tracers in your gauge cluster, go to RadioSack and buy the pen made for fixing circuit boards.

Happy? I helped.

 

http://www.ephatch.com/forum/showthr...hlight=cluster

You're welcome :D

 

Thanks mate, appreciate that. That's the type of help i was thinking of, why didnt you just say so before?

 

Because I wanted you to answer my question about the oil pressure gauge

 

lol. well it was obviously a typo. I mean u threw it in my face so much, i hope you didnt expect me to be like ...there is an oil temp gauge....Typo's occur, it's normal.

 

You're a blessing man, not only to me but definitely to other people who are gonna come on here looking for this info..

cheers