Dash lights problem...

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Aries
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My dash lights in the S14 went out last night...Still have turn signals, headlights, brights, lighter socket, everything but the dash lights...

any ideas before I go tearing into the fuse block today would be appreciated.


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Did you do any work at all on the car or did they just go out for no reason?

Maybe it has something to do with all the power that V8 is making? :)

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I raced a bike, and when I pulled back up to park last night I shut of the lights.When I went to turn them back on they didn't work.The dimmer controll has no efect, but everything else works, so I'm hoping it's just a fuse.

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Yeah that's what it sounds like, a fuse or loose connection somewhere.

Mine did that and I inadvertantly fixed it by pulling the gauge cluster and tightening everything.

Does your radio work fine? The lights and everything? I believe the dash lights are grounded through the radio also. When I took out my radio my dash lights wouldn't work until I reinstalled it.

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encasemyheart wrote:Yeah that's what it sounds like, a fuse or loose connection somewhere.

Mine did that and I inadvertantly fixed it by pulling the gauge cluster and tightening everything.

Does your radio work fine? The lights and everything? I believe the dash lights are grounded through the radio also. When I took out my radio my dash lights wouldn't work until I reinstalled it.
yeah, the radio and everything else works fine.Just bugs me cause I had to drive like 2 hours home in the middle of the night with no way to tell how fast I was going...

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Aries wrote:yeah, the radio and everything else works fine.Just bugs me cause I had to drive like 2 hours home in the middle of the night with no way to tell how fast I was going...


That's what cruise control is for. :)

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lmao!cruise control was removed to save weight!that switch runs the nitrous system now.

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sounds like a fuse problem to me...

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nope, all the fuses were good, and if I bypassed the switch for the lights everything came on (but stayed on)SO I need a new switch.

Good thing the Nissan community is so helpful, Brian from Florida is sending me one off of his car to use :)

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cool...:)

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ARRRIEEESSS......arrriiiesss...... did you search aries? :pface

if the bulb in the dimmer switch blows it kills the circuit! it acts sort of like a fuse, (how cheap :tisk: ). so you dont nessisarily need a new switch, just the bulb that goes in it

do a search for "dimmer light" and a few useful posts come up about it, most importantly this one:http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....light

scroll down to u12_2nr's second post


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