well its been cold here lately and snowing when this problem came about..... have a 94 Honda civic ex coupe, it seems that my instrument panel,tail lights, license plate light fuse goes
out every time i shut my car off and when i turn my can on it does not work for about 10 min or until my car gets warm..... im so confused because the fuse is never blown but it just takes a while for all the stuff to work any suggestions or help here

( i am also running oem fog lights and they are not working with the other stuff)

please shoot meet in some directions for help,thanks people.

 

its your multi function switch,they are notoriuosly bad for the grease and dirt to get hard and prevent contact when it gets cold....you can either replace it, or if you are mechanically inclined, you can take it out, take it apart and clean it....and dont forget to put more dieelectric grease on it

 

well it seems my fuse for those things is not receiving any power i found that out with a test light , is there any other things that i could trouble shoot to be for sure
it is not simple taking that thing out so i am curious because it comes on periodically

 

srmofo is probably correct, the fuse will not have power until the combination light switch supplies it.

If it is only the park light circuit, [first "click" on light switch] and the head lights work, the main fuse is good and the problem will be the switch.

Try this, [when it will not work] switch the park lights on and off rapidly a bunch of times, if the lights start to work, replace, [or clean] the switch. 94

 

the switch is suprisingly easy to take out and clean ....on a side note I have also had this problem with my dimmer control, my inside lights would not work