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Old 07-29-2005, 01:44 PM
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Default Gauge Lights do not go on when headlights come on

Just recently my lights on my gauge have not been coming on when my headlights are turned on. My fuse for my tail lights was blown causing them to not work and has still not been replaced, but would that cause the guage to not work. I checked the fuse for these as well and that one seems to be fine. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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Same thing happened to me, at night when I turned the lights on all the guages and radio lights would not come on. I had to replace the 5amp fuse at the bottom of the fuse box. So you might want to check that one out if you have not.
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Well I checked all my fuses and replaced the blown ones. They are all fine now and still no guage lights or radio lights. My tail lights now work, but idk what is wrong with my guages.
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Check that the dimmer switch isn't turned all the way down.
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Make sure the dimmer switch isn't shorting out too. Could be a bad connection in the circuit.
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Yea I would check the dimmer switch.
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Dimmer Switch is all the way up first thing I checked, looks like I will have to make sure there is no short in it. Thanks, any other ideas post them.




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