The car is a 99 Civic Si.

For some reason the 30 fuse that powers the guage cluster and climate control lights keeps blowing. This randomly started happening one day when i was driving on the freeway and hit a bump. I have taken out the cluster to check and see if anything looks out of order and nothing.

My question is should i be looking for a ground of some sort that could be causing this to happen? Electrical is not a strong suit of mine so please bare with me if i ask a newbie question.

Thanks in advance of any help.

 

Not a ground. A short. A wire is exposed somewhere would be my guess.

 

x2 happened to me before when i hit the bump something inbetween the dash cut a wire spened i found it and fixed it and havent had a problem since

 

So it was an exposed wire? Was this behind the cluster or somewhere underneath near the inner fuse box? Just trying to figure out what and where i should start looking.

 

Does unplugging the dimmer switch prevent the fuse from blowing?

 

man i have a 99 si too my cluster and climate control will not light up and every time i replace my number #30 fuse it keeps on getting blown like in a blink of an eye along with the dimmer switch the rpm gauges and mph works.... along with signal light and engine light, battery light and the rest just not the cluster light so plz help me out i am so stress over this problem....=(

 

A) bumping a dead thread is never a good idea.
B) Unplug the dimmer switch, and see if the fuse still blows.

 

okay thanks !