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Heres my problem: my parking lights wont turn on and center console lights dont work either...also when i have the headlights on without key in ignition theres no beeping sound like there used to be.. AND the 15amp fuse under the hood marked "Small light" keeps blowing everytime i put a new one in..

heres what Might have caused it: i installed a new headunit yesterday and tried to do HIDs but ended up putting the halogens back in... MAYBE the grounding point for the Headunit is bad? but that 1 point alone wouldn't cause the fuse to blow and lights to not work...headunit works fine btw ..and as for the HID attempt, i only took off 1 side of the headlight and didnt mess with many if any wires at all...

ive searched and saw that maybe some grounding wire from the fuse terminal or something was off but i doubt it and i dont even know how to check that ....anyways yeah this is irritating me.. +++ for anything that helps t.t

 
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Yeah, you might have a short somewhere. I Installed a headunit on my sister's camry, and the fuses for the dash keeps blowing. The headunit works perfectly, but I couldn't get the fuse to stop blowing.
Yeah you might want to check if you have a short circuit somewhere. Sorry can't help you more.

 
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Remove any of the "dimmer" or "illumination" leads that were hooked up during the head unit install.

 
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beat me to it, ill put anything down thats what caused it

 
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x3 on illumination wire

your ground would not cause fuses to blow

 
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the dimmer wire shouldn't be connected. the illum wire is fine, it just dims the deck when you turn the lights on. but if you hooked it up wrong, thats whats causing it.

 
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thanks!! never knew that would have anything to do with it..its workin now and illum wire is still connected but dimmer isnt.. since i didnt know what it was for and didnt sound useful . . thanks again for ur help guys

 
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bro, i too have this f***ing problem. The only difference about my situation is that i never touched the headunit, infact, the stock unit is still in. Do you u guys think that i should take a look at the the dimmer wire and the the illum wire for the headunit? Also, what colors are these wires?....thanks

 
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well first thing is if you installed HID's I hope you upgrade the fuse under the hood at 25 amp atleast in most cases thats what is needed.

 
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are u refering to the just the HID bulbs or the HID kit, cuz all i put in was the bulbs....what fuse should i replace to 25amps.....thanks

 
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look in the fuse box under the hood I don't have my civic anymore so I can't remember the fuse # but its in the box under the hood

 
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well the only fuse that keeps blowing is the "small light" fuse (15 amps)

 
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well sounds like a wiring issue possibly..

 
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the messed up thing is that when i remove the fuse for the radio,and replace the fuse that keeps blowing, the dash lights will work; however for only a few seconds....and back to square one(blown f***ing fuse).....arrrrrrgggghhh.