the fuse would always blow when i switch the light to come on at the first click. everything works fine but my concern is the lights on my cluster and other buttons. its pretty dark inside the car except for the light from the player.
i noticed this guys crx switch was broken so he wired it to come on when he turns the switch on. how do i wire my dimmer to also come on? i know someone out there should know. just like the red/yellow wire for the fog lights. how do i do this one? please help me.
When you lose your dash lights, do you also lose your tail lights? I had the same problem and I checked and my parkinglights didn’t work as well and everytime I put a new fuse in, flip the switch, it blew the fuse.
yup, i lost my tail lights on my old integra when the fuse for the dash blew. Its not really a problem with the current one cause they wired it to a switch. I cant even find any wires grounding.
Sounds like two questions…
For the park light circuit, [blowing fuse when park lights turned on] if you have an aftermarket HU, [player] pull the HU and check the red/black lead in the OEM radio harness, it is the “illumination” lead, make sure it is not being “pinched” and shorting or used for anything on the aftermarket HU.
The “Dash Lights Brightness Controller”, [commonly called a dimmer] only supplies a ground, [red lead] for the illumination bulbs, so any problem with it would not blow a fuse.
Not sure what your asking about your fog lights, do you want to rewire them so they will turn on without turning on the head lights. 94
Well I checked my wiring for the HU and it was fine, however I did disconnect it just to be safe. Now I am putting a new capacitor in my ICU because I have the ever so awesome capacitor leaking all over the board in the ICU. Hopefully this will cure the problem, otherwise I’m stumped as to what my problem is.
Ok I have one hell of an electrical issue. I have figured out that my previous statement was wrong. It was my headunit. However, here is where it gets strange. I unplugged the entire wire harness from the stereo, so therefor it has absolutely no power, yet when I turn on my lights it sends a signal to my amp and turns my amp on. WTF! There is no power going to the headunit and yet my amp is in such desperate need to put out that it decides to draw power from my lights…how is this possible? The only connection for the remote wire is from the headunit to the amp…nowhere else. I am completely puzzled on this one and I am going to re-wire it tomorrow.
Sounds like you wired the amp wire (the blue one) to the dimmer wire. Or your radio don’t have the amp wire and you simply wired the red wire to the dimmer. If so,that is the problem,if you have the conversion harness then (if I’m not mistaking) should have an orange or blue wire? That is the dimmer and should be taped and not used. The amp wire you should be using is the ALL blue one on the deck wires (the wires that comes with the radio.
[QUOTE=fcm;2188250]Sounds like two questions…
For the park light circuit, [blowing fuse when park lights turned on] if you have an aftermarket HU, [player] pull the HU and check the red/black lead in the OEM radio harness, it is the “illumination” lead, make sure it is not being “pinched” and shorting or used for anything on the aftermarket HU.
The “Dash Lights Brightness Controller”, [commonly called a dimmer] only supplies a ground, [red lead] for the illumination bulbs, so any problem with it would not blow a fuse.
Not sure what your asking about your fog lights, do you want to rewire them so they will turn on without turning on the head lights. 94[/QUOTE]
Thanks fcm. I will take a look at the OEM radio harness tomorrow and see if there is anything wrong with the red/black wire.
My appology… I already wired the fog lights to turn on without turning the head lights on… I was just wondering if there was any sort of way to wire the dimmer switch to come on, the same way the fogs do.
Not sure I understand, “dimmer switch to come on the same way as fogs do”???
First, how are the fogs rewired?
So we are clear, when you say dimmer, you do mean DLBC, [Dash Lights Brightness Controler] right, or do you mean the high/low beam dimmer switch?
The DLBC supplies the ground, [red lead through resistance] to the dash lights, it is always “on”, the same goes for the park light circuit, it is hot at all times.
If the park light fuse is blowing there is a short on the red/black lead, [dash/park light power lead] and the most common spot is the red/black at the OEM radio harness if an aftermarket HU has been installed. 94
The fogs are rewired this way. http://www.kinzuacountry.com/DAStuff/foglight_wiring.html it comes on when i turn the ignition to AC.
Indeed it is clear that I am talking about the DLBC. Since i first got the car, the dash lights were never working. I checked the red/black lead at the OEM radio harness and found no short or pinching in these wires. I asked my brothers friend what he has done to his CRX cause ive noticed the dash lights worked but the dimmer switch was never plugged. He told me that he ran a wire from the switch to the car lighter…
Then you need to test for power on the red/black lead, [park/head lights on].
Do any illumination lights on the dash turn on when you turn the lights on?
The dash illumination lights need power, [from the red/black] and a ground, [from the red lead that comes from the DLBC] to work, so either there is no power or there is no ground,
You can also pull the DLBC, unplug it and then use a jumper to connect the black and the red lead to see if the DLBC is the problem, you can also test the red/black for power at the DLBC plug.
Your brothers friend must have run a lead from the red/black at the DLBC plug to the lighters power lead, [white/blue] or possibly the black ground lead at the DLBC plug to the lightersground, [black] 94
No lights on the dash turn on at all when the light comes on. It is quite obvious that the tail lights aren’t too because the fuse for that entire thing would always blow. I can’t locate any short wires… I got the car like this. Although the fuse keeps popping, the owner before me wired the tail lights to come on with a blown fuse because the tail lights were wired to a toggle switch.
Thanks for your help. i really appreciate. Is it possible for my dash lights to come back if i wire it the same way my brothers friend did with the fuse like this? this whole problem is caused by the previous owner playing with the wrong things.
I figured out my wiring issue. The stupid little light that shines down on the radio, fell behind the dash and was touching the casing for the head unit. Therefor, everytime I turned on the lights, it put power on the head unit sending a signal to the amp. I have fixed the issue and the good news, I have a new ICU in and my wipers, rear defrost, and everything else works great. Yeah for trying to pay attention to what I was doing. Guess that will teach me. Thanks for everyone helping out.
[QUOTE=jdm_obsessed;2190730]No lights on the dash turn on at all when the light comes on. It is quite obvious that the tail lights aren’t too because the fuse for that entire thing would always blow. I can’t locate any short wires… I got the car like this. Although the fuse keeps popping, the owner before me wired the tail lights to come on with a blown fuse because the tail lights were wired to a toggle switch.
Thanks for your help. i really appreciate. Is it possible for my dash lights to come back if i wire it the same way my brothers friend did with the fuse like this? this whole problem is caused by the previous owner playing with the wrong things.[/QUOTE]Without knowing how the tail lights are “rewired” I can’t say if you can do the same for the dash lights, although rewiring, [bypassing fuses] is not a good idea.
It is much better to find the problem and fix it, you already know the problem is not in the park light circuit, [been rewired and fuse still blows] that would indicate the problem is in the dash dash light circuit, you can isolate it farther by unplugging the cluster and seeing if the fuse still blows. 94
Thanks for the help… So i looked through the dash when i took the passenger underdash panel off and i find a burnt wire. The wire under the dash is a red/white lead. Its right next to a black box in which i dont know what it is. im not sure if the black box is the blower of if the white one is but the red/white lead is right there. What wire is this and is this whats causing my problems?
Red/white is not part of the park/dash lights circuit, however, if a red/black lead is running next to the burnt red/white lead anyplace in the harness the red/black lead may be shorted to the red/white.
I will have to check my wiring diagrames to see what the red/white lead is. a better discription or pix of exactly where the red/white lead is and what black box is would help.94
thanks for the help, again.
i have a complete harness from the engine to the tail lights. would the underdash harness from the obd1 92-93 integra work on my obd0 90-91? im sure it will because the obd0/1 relates to the engine and computer. just wanting to make sure.