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yeah my cluser wont light up and the only lights that work IN my car is the dome light radio(aftermarket) and thats it my cluter wont and my horn doesnt ither i dont know if that is the same thing but it did work and i looked at the fuse box and the little adjuster thingy and still nothing that light that goes to that doesnt even work i have no more ideas PLEASE HELP thanks

check your dimmer to see if it was bad?

As long as you have got tail lights.

Thats where I'd be starting too - checking for a voltage at the dimmer. Can't see how the horn is related - did this happen at the same time?

I'd have to check a wiring diagram (which I don't have)... hmmmm ah any chance that the cluster and horn share a ground? Maybe both are not grounded?

see now i didnt even think about the ground thanks i will try that tomorrow

I spent hours and hours taking the dash apart and testing all the wires that I could find. The problem in my case was the dimmer switch. Go to a junk yard and pick on up, ask to test it at the yard with your car. You should be prepared, ie. have the old dimmer switch pushe out and the wire connector out in the open and then just plug the junk yard model in.

I was in the middle of working on dash pieces, some customizing, of course. Then I had to use the car, tossed the necessary things (gauge cluster) in and took off, only to find later that evening that no dash lights worked. Like you described, but the problem was the missing dimmer switch. I agree with the others here. Check the connection, and test switch with ohm meter, and replace if necessary. Junkyard, or ebay-possibly. New would be EXpensive.

I don't even use my dimmer switch anymore besides just to sit in the dash so there won't be a void in the dash. Since I've gotten my indiglo gauges, I got a small piece of wire and ran it from the top right and botttem right pins from the connector switch and that makes all the lights default to full brightness. With the pin directly left of the bottem right I used to power the gauges and sent the ground wire for the gauges to a screw connected to the chasis. Makes em work just by hittin the lights on. But the wiring from the top to bottem would be a great quick fix for a broken dimmer and considering most of us leave our brightness to full anyways.

<small>[ October 13, 2004, 05:04 PM: Message edited by: blueskyguy007 ]</small>

Before going and buying a new dimmer switch try jumping the switch and see if the lights come on. If so then you can leave it jumped and just not worry about getting a new switch. Unless of corse you want to be able to dim your lights.