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HELP!! Parking Lights/Dash lights out~

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#1 ·
Hey, guys...
I finished my S13 front end conversion and while I was doing some wirings for corner lights, I accidently touched (+) and (-) wires together, which brought me dead lights all around the car. After that my parking lights, bumper lights, dash lights do not come on. Of course I checked all the fuses inside the hood, and inside the car on the driver side. None of the fuses are blown. What should I do? Of course I checked all of the light bulbs as well.
Is there any other location for parking light fuse?
Please help~~~~
 
#3 ·
wow...well if you seriously checked ALL the fuses on your driver side panel. the one that goes out is something like rear signal. when i blew my dash lights hookin up glow gauges this is the one that was out. i never suspected this one, but it was it. who knows, good luck.
 
#6 ·
Hew~
After I spent about 4 hours outside, I finally found a problem.
First, there was no blown fuse on the driver side fuse box. So, I started my search from the hood. When I rechecked the black fuse box under the hood, I found one square fuse with clear top(25A), and it says REV something. Anyways, that fuse was blown and I thought that was the fuse which blew all the parking lights. so, I rant to the auto parts store and bought the fuse, replaced it and nothing happened. I was mackin on my head. I rechecked all of the light bulbs to see if there was any blown bulbs. None of them was burned. I went back to the driver side fuse box, and started checking all the fuses one by one again. Finally I found the tail light fuse was blown.
I am 100% sure that the tail light fuse was not blown before I replaced the fuse for REV. But, I guess they are some what related to each other? Anyways,,, if anyone experience trouble like this, check your hood fuse boxes, and driver side fuse box back and forth. Thanks guys for help~
 
#7 ·
something may be grounded somewhere and you dont know it. check all your grounding points and see if its crossed with a positive connection. invest in a multimeter or a volt meter. FLUKE makes really good ones. there may be a wire that is caught in the firewall that is rubbing against a sharp edge and is now making contact because of the fact that the rough edge has scraped away at the wire sheathing.

there are a number of possibilities, but usually this is what it is.