Well, anyways I'm pretty freaking new here so if this in the wrong section, go ahead and move it where its needed.

Anyways, I've recently started to get more into my car and I'm going to be replacing all of my dash and most of my accessory lights with LED's. I stated to look up disassembly (sp?) guides and I started to tear it apart today to try to get a good idea of how easy it was going to be. After ordering the LED's off Ebay, I went to go home from a friend's house and I noticed a lot of my dash lights wouldn't light up! My entire bottom row and part of my top row, which includes the Airmix wheel, Information light, Rear/Mirror defrosts, Headlight/Parking light switch, Foglight switch, etc, entirely went out! After this, I went to my tape deck and half of the lights are gone now! I started to fool around with some things and I noticed the tape deck lights flickering, and they would come on every once and a while depending on what was going on. The actual part of the dash, with components such as the speedo and boost guage, still lights up and I don't think the dimmer switch is going out or anything.

If someone could please help me that would be amazing. Could this be a problem with the stereo itself? Could it be an internal wiring short? Any help would be appreciated.

Anyways, on a side note here's what I'm running

1994 850 Turbo
Muffler Removed, replaced with free flow OBX 5 1/2" OD Muffler (Can!), 2 1/2" inlet
K&N Airbox Filter
Bottom of air box cut out

Pretty much its okay, but that's only it. It doesn't sound ricey at all, it growls but I still have my Catt so that cuts noise down along with the turbo.

 

Moved to 850 forum.

 

I can only assume that you have accidentally knocked off a connector. I would go back and double-check electrical connectors leading to the illuminations.


JPN

 

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Here are some pictures of mine. As you can see, a lot of my instruments are not lighting up and my radio isn't even lighting up.

 

I thought all your lights were out, but I can see the major ones are on. Maybe individual bulbs needed replacing and when you undid come dash parts, they may have reached life. Some bulbs are loose; poor manufacturing.

As to the radio, there are tiny bulbs behind the front panel. They too are known to go bad but maybe not all of them at once. However, the LCD is on so you could either try a known good unit or try new bulbs. I believe Honda dealer has the right bulbs. See what others have to say.


JPN

 

But 12 v T1 bulbs from 'the source' or 'circuit city' and replace the bulbs. This just needs taking the switches out (which is just prying them out) and then opening them to replace these pigtailed bulbs. Soldering if preffered but I did few on mine 94 by just cutting the wires of existing bilbs halfway and then twist connect he new bulbs to those. there is more detailed thread somewhere on this forum which even describes the circuitcity part numbers.

 

This is a little bit off topic but I like how bright your instrument cluster looks in that one picture up there. Did you just put a white LED light in there to make it look that bright?

 

That was actually with the camera. It was a camera phone. Anyways, I did put some white LEDs inside the dash and things, although it turned things blue .