Dashboard Illumination
14 October 2005, 01:57 PM
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Dashboard Illumination
I have 95 WRX. I lost the dash illumination and also the lighting behind the heater controls etc. 10 amp fuse in interior blows immediately you switch the lights on. Any help would be appreciated.
14 October 2005, 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Ralph Wiggum
sounds like a earth fault perhaps
on a different note your user name would that have any thing to do with the saab 9-3 viggen?
on a different note your user name would that have any thing to do with the saab 9-3 viggen?
01 December 2005, 02:47 PM
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Had the car in at SC and after a fair bit of searching they found a couple of wires that had been rubbing and were down to the wire and touching, behind the dash somewhere, all sorted now 
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Originally Posted by bgood
Viggen, did you ever get to the bottom of this as I have exactly the same thing happening with mine at the moment?
30 January 2006, 02:56 PM
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Eventually found short. Removed radio and CD player from centre console. Where wiring loom for radio, cd, etc. dissappears towards glove box area there is a metal bracket that supports dash with nasty sharp edge on it. This was shorting and causing fuse to blow. Insulating tape bit of solder and its now sorted.
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Originally Posted by viggen091
Eventually found short. Removed radio and CD player from centre console. Where wiring loom for radio, cd, etc. dissappears towards glove box area there is a metal bracket that supports dash with nasty sharp edge on it. This was shorting and causing fuse to blow. Insulating tape bit of solder and its now sorted.
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