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- Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:13 pm #26723 Ok so here is the story of my haunted Civic blinker lights. Lol.

So one night I am driving and I notice that when I turn on my blinker all of my dash lights including my speedometer and ac panel blink extremely brightly for a split second. Almost as if it had a surge of power and then they return to normal. So at first I ignored the problem because I had no money so I just had to bear with it. Well A few weeks go by and I am once again driving at night and I notice that something seems amiss. Well I look around the cabin and I notice it seems dark..... My ac panel no longer lights up!!

So I figure that the bulbs were burning out from the short and I decide to just buy a whole new panel anyway because mine was not in such good condition. Well I get my new one in, and I replaced it with new bulbs and I plug it in and no lights! So Now the lights come on occasionally and I still have the blinker surging my speedo lights.

Does anyone have any idea what i can do to solve this problem? It is so freaking annoying.

Thanks in advance

- Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:32 am #26767 have you checked the earths and fuses???

thats were i would start

94 civic sedan, got camber?

- Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:00 pm #26801 Yeah I checked all of my fuses and my grounds seem to be fine. I am at a loss, electrical problems always seem to be hard to figure out.

[ohDirka]

- Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:02 pm #26802 get yourself a test light and go to town...sounds like theres an electrical short somewhere

Race cars are like boats I guess. Time to bust out another thousand.

- Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:47 pm #26807 did you check your blinker fluid?


LOl j/k in all seriousness though it does sound like a short somewhere down the line... one of the worst things to figure out is electrical

Remember when Civics were cool ? Yea me neither

- Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:09 pm #26808 if there is a short, how do I fix that? I mean can a wire just go bad? and so strange it is only with my blinker, I am thinking perhaps it pinched a wire or something somewhere from the movement? Just thinking out loud.

- Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:15 pm #26809 yeah pinching a wire can do that, have you worked on anything recently before this started happening? more so anything electrical, or near wires?

Remember when Civics were cool ? Yea me neither

- Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:29 am #26820 Here i am to save you! I had this exact problem in my Si, i replaced the dimmer switch and never had a problem again! Hopefully it will be the same for you!

Craig

*looks at hand* so what do you want to do baby

- Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:25 am #26825

Here i am to save you! I had this exact problem in my Si, i replaced the dimmer switch and never had a problem again! Hopefully it will be the same for you!

Thank you so freaking much! after you told me this I tried to use my dimmer switch and sure enough it was not dimming anything! So I replaced it and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million man, I was starting to get pretty stressed thinking I would have to search for a short somewhere.

James

- Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:09 pm #26865

Here i am to save you! I had this exact problem in my Si, i replaced the dimmer switch and never had a problem again! Hopefully it will be the same for you!

Thank you so freaking much! after you told me this I tried to use my dimmer switch and sure enough it was not dimming anything! So I replaced it and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million man, I was starting to get pretty stressed thinking I would have to search for a short somewhere.

James

haha sweet man, i'm glad it worked for you!! i love helping people when i can!!

Craig

*looks at hand* so what do you want to do baby

- Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:56 am #26874

Here i am to save you! I had this exact problem in my Si, i replaced the dimmer switch and never had a problem again! Hopefully it will be the same for you!

Thank you so freaking much! after you told me this I tried to use my dimmer switch and sure enough it was not dimming anything! So I replaced it and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million man, I was starting to get pretty stressed thinking I would have to search for a short somewhere.

James

haha sweet man, i'm glad it worked for you!! i love helping people when i can!!

leave it to york to save the day

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- Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:18 am #26879

Here i am to save you! I had this exact problem in my Si, i replaced the dimmer switch and never had a problem again! Hopefully it will be the same for you!

Thank you so freaking much! after you told me this I tried to use my dimmer switch and sure enough it was not dimming anything! So I replaced it and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million man, I was starting to get pretty stressed thinking I would have to search for a short somewhere.

James

haha sweet man, i'm glad it worked for you!! i love helping people when i can!!

leave it to york to save the day

Craig

*looks at hand* so what do you want to do baby

- Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:35 pm #26956

Here i am to save you! I had this exact problem in my Si, i replaced the dimmer switch and never had a problem again! Hopefully it will be the same for you!

Thank you so freaking much! after you told me this I tried to use my dimmer switch and sure enough it was not dimming anything! So I replaced it and IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million man, I was starting to get pretty stressed thinking I would have to search for a short somewhere.

James

haha sweet man, i'm glad it worked for you!! i love helping people when i can!!

leave it to york to save the day

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