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Alright, so today when I started my car all I saw was smoke come out of my vents. I had no idea wtf was goin on. took the car to my friends house to get my headunit n subs installed, he noticed that none of my gauge lights would go on except the digital mileage and what gear it was in. Besides that, no other orange lit thing would come up(except on the doors and the background for the digital mileage). anybody know what it could be?

 
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what upgrade did you do before this happened? Explain in details.

 
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i did no upgrade to the car beforehand. I did have the car at a place to change my oil.

 
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did this happen before or after your friend installed the system?

 
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make sure your #9 fuse under the hood is not blown. i had problems with that one and it caused my dash lights and interior lights to go out.

 
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I would not have installed a system if I just had smoke coming out from somewhere in my car, and fried wires from "something". I would have to figure it out first before I hooked up the wires.

 
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2001 ex coupe 5speed - i was dropping a new radio in, and it was the only thing plugged into the dash, i also had both orange wires from the deck connected to the one illumination wire on the harness, and when i first put the lights on i smelt smoke and now my gauges are out, i checked all the fuses, and no luck...any help?

 
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I would take the illumination back loose and see what happens. Some recievers use positive voltage some ground for dimming/illumination, and I would not tie them together. I think the plain orange was used on my car.

You may have damaged the dimmer section that controls the brightness of the lamps.

 
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yea i tied off all the wires, still off, i think it is the gd dimmer switch, thanks for the help, but the guns always loaded...