Civic EG

Posted: **Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:13 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:32 am**

have you checked the earths and fuses???

thats were i would start

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:00 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:02 pm**

get yourself a test light and go to town...sounds like theres an electrical short somewhere

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:47 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:09 pm**

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.

Posted: **Wed Oct 17, 2007 9:15 pm**

yeah pinching a wire can do that, have you worked on anything recently before this started happening? more so anything electrical, or near wires?

Posted: **Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:29 am**

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!

Posted: **Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:25 am**

york62 wrote: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 :woot:

IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million man, I was starting to get pretty stressed thinking I would have to search for a short somewhere.

James

Posted: **Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:09 pm**

hkspowers wrote:
york62 wrote: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!! :woot:

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2007 12:56 am**

york62 wrote:
hkspowers wrote:
york62 wrote: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 :lol:

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:18 am**

chnzgoofball wrote:
york62 wrote:
hkspowers wrote:
york62 wrote: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

Posted: **Fri Oct 19, 2007 8:35 pm**

york62 wrote:
chnzgoofball wrote:
york62 wrote:
hkspowers wrote:
york62 wrote: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

Civic EG

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