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i was moving my HU to the lower part of the dash hole (where the pocket normally is) and when i did the orange-white wire( illumantion) came un-done and i rewired it to.

some how when i repowered the car to test my HU i saw smoke and smelled burning plastic starting to come from in the dash... when i saw this i quickly turned off everthing.. but i was unable to find what was burning... then when i went to turn on my lights the dash and hvac controls dont work....

UPDATE: getting fixed under honda certified

 
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check the fuse under the steering wheel. or the under the hood.

 
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the fuse under the hood looks fine... im hoping i didnt burn a wire through

 
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oh that is very bad. If you shorted out the illumination wire, there is NO fuse for that. So you permanently destroyed your gauge and dash lights. Sorry. Only thing you could do is get a new cluster and try to change the bulbs behind the hvac controls (altho the entire circuit was prolly melted).

 
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oh crap... what do you think my chances are for honda to fix it since its certified used... if i put the OEM radio back in

 
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haha its worth a try. just tell them you turned on the lights and nothing worked. If you still have warranty, they'll prolly fix it.

 
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If the tailights are also out check fuse #2 in under hood box. If the tailights work you may have trouble as mentioned.

 
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well i'm going to put my stock radio back in and see if honda will fix it

my tail lights work.... i searched the site someone else had a simular problemed but there problem was the fuse...i already check the fuses... i wish mine was that easy

 
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it sucks its the weekend since no service shop is open around me i guess i'll have to wait til monday to schedule something

 
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dude i had the same problem. still not fixed. was gonnan do a 04 gauge cluster swap, but too much rewiring

 
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my taillights wasnt workin and my turn signals. I fixed it by changing the fuse, but the illumination light is still mest up. Need a new cluster.

 
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just get some indiglo gauge faces?

 
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would dat work?

 
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hmmhopefully honda will pick up the bill if i tell them they just went out... otherwise how much do you think this might run me

 
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alot of $ otherwise. My custom backlight just broke so I ordered some white face blue/green indiglo gauges instead. They wire independently, but you would have to find a new power soruce. You could wire them to the parking light, just gotta run the wire through the firewall to the light and splice it. Only because your wires are prolly fried going to the cluster.

 
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got one for a manual tranny...haha

 
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hmm its different looking for a manual.

 
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+1 to rep... thanks man

 
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update: honda will be paying the bill to get my lights fixed..... they were going to make me pay the diagnostic fee and then when the repair was done i would need to pay that as well, stating that an alarm that used to be in the car caused the problem (which was removed by the dealer befor i bought the car)... bad rewiring or something

i said what alarm (because i actually didn't know about that)

then the honda rep said, you actually bought the car that way and they certified it ...i know we would never do that

i said, you got to be kidding me


then he said dont worry about the bill we'll get it covered

i said thanks and i am now just waiting for my new dash cluster and HVAC controls..... i should have tried to get a 05 cluster huh? oh well the old silver matches my car too

 
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ok here's what you did

you hooked up the illumination wire to the dimmer wire...shorted out your circuit board, burned the traces, of your cluster and in the process also burned the IC that controls the cluster lighting and HVAC controls....

here's what you could've done to fix the problem...gone to an electronics repair shop, they would've soldered jumper cables to take place of the now burned traces...replaced any resistors and that IC...

everything would then work like it did before

I know this how???? well I did the same thing and thats how me and one of the electro-techs at work fixed it

 
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i think my illum is hooked to dimmer wire but the dimmer just doesn't work on the deck?

 
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the dimmer wire shouldn't have anything connected to it....
your board wont necessarly burn right away....it was about 3 months before mine did...in some cases I've heard it happen instantly after the lights were turned on...

http://www.7thgencivic.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=157794

check out the link, its discussed there...