Dash lights

stufferton wrote: They went kaput today while I was screwing around with my CD player and electronic heater/AC center unit BS thing…I went to put the fuse for the interior lights back in, when i plugged it in it immediately shorted out. OK, something is still grounding where it shouldnt be. Found it, its fixed, all the interior lights and CD player crap works again, but I had noticed that my dash lights (electronic) and the two other gauges on an electronic car (compass and MPG for the NA) are not lighting up.

Checked all the other fuses, they all work.
Checked fusable links under the hood, they all appear to be fine.

While at the panel under the dash on the drivers side, I could see light coming from behind the gauge cluster still, so the lights are on, but the LCD panel isnt coming on im guessing?

This is very frustrating because i was only even mucking around because Its getting later into the year, and i wanted my heater fans/cd player/interior lights to all work before it gets cold. All that crap works again, but now my none of my actual important lights work. Any suggestions? Did i fry my digi gauge cluster? Am I doing the analog swap sooner than i had planned?

reddzx wrote: Check to see if the rear hatch wiper still works, if not, change that fuse. The power supply runs through the rear wiper fuse in the panel.

xbxrxtorquex wrote: My fuse was still good, so I poked around with it and after some more extensive jiggling of the wires going into the power core I was able to get a little bit of power to the "average mph" and "miles till empty" displays, but they would cycle thru all the numbers and flash as I would tweak with the harness. So, since I was able to get some power out of it, it's safe to assume I need a new dash harness?

NissanEgg wrote: Nope, just check and fix the connector pins. Check for loose pins or bent/tweaked pins. Also look for corrosion, chaffing, or other things that common sense would tell you that doesn't look right.