ok so i have to hot wire my car to keep it running, and one day i was having trouble getting the wire to stay connected to the battery, and making and breaking the connection several times it final stuck, now my dash lights dont work at all and my tail lights dont work. break lights work but not tail ligths... does anyone have any clue how to fix this, i cant find the fuses for these at all and on top of that ALL my fuses are good so i am stumped.

 

there's a fuse fused all that in the underdash fuse box.checked?

 

man i checked all those fuses and they arent poped, on top of that none of them are labled for tail lights or dash, could the ligthing relay under the hood gone out?

 

i don think there's a relay for all that lighting.....all on and off by the combination light switch only...

 

"small lights" fuse under the hood. 20a

 

Not sure exactly how it is on these cars, but I've seen bad grounds cause issues like this on other cars.

 

had same problem mine was a mix between a bad ground and check ur harness for any spots that could cause it too short out

 

To kind of build on this, one time on an integra I swapped I didnt have a good motor ground, so all the current tried to flow through the chassis ground and basically melted/blew up a wire.

I my case, it was a ground wire at the ECU.

Check all your fuses and pray it is one of those other wise you may have some hunting to do

 

I had this problem. Still kind of do. Read this post and it helped me through my search. My problem was a loose wire in the plug where the harness hits the under dash fuse box. Tension on this harness over time loosened the wire in the plug. I need to get a new plug from the junkyard( well used) until I find one I just put tension the opposite direction and wrapped it with electrical tape. If it flickers out I just push in on the plug..... Hope this helps anyone who comes across this.