A while back i posted about having problems with my gauges not lighting up at night. Nobody knew for sure what wire it was, and i know there are others with this problem, so heres the solution. If you have an aftermarket head unit you need to ground the red and yellow wire. Heres a picture of the wire (not very good, sorry). Ground it to the screw that holds on the shifter boot assembly.



The wire originally has a black quick disconnect clip at the end of it. I cut the clip off before i took this picture.

 

so thats it huh? well i'll try that ONCE i get my car back. thanks alot for this resolution!

 

no problem, I just hope it fixes it for ya like it did for me.

 

ok i did that now the lights on the cluster dont like up at all...my climate control lights up now though...all the fuses are fine though

 

my climate control lights dont work at all..would that fix it? or do i have a completely diff problem there? or do i not have lights in it?

 

The climate control lights and the gauge cluster lighting are on the same circuit IIRC. That ground is for the both of them. If one or the other isnt lighting up I would say the problem is with the bulbs, or wiring somewhere else.

 

Ryan's hand FTW

 

hey i grounded the wire and messed with the leds it was my clock light the was messing the connection for the leds idk how. But thanks for the help i appreciate it.b

 

No problem man, I'm here to help. Well, that and post whoring.

 

is this the wire you're talking about?




that's a pic of one of the loose wires behind my center console..
all my gauge lights work except for the clock.. the clock itself gets power and keeps time, but it doesn't light up at night.

i replaced the bulb, still nothing.
if i ground that wire (see above) would it maybe light up my clock?

 

No, that is the ground for everything. That one wire grounds the clock, gauge cluster, and HVAC controls. If the clock won't light up it is either the bulb or a fuse maybe. I could be wrong, but I think that wire splits into 2 different wires. One of them is most likely grounded already if the gauge lights work. You could try it though, and worst case scenario you blow a fuse.

*EDIT* The clock may be on a separate circuit altogether. Isnt the light always on? I will look at the FSM and see if i can tell.

*EDIT 2* From looking at the FSM it looks like the light for the clock runs off the same power source that the clock uses to keep time.

 

then it's a fuse? cuz the bulb is good. i replaced the bulb

 

From what I can tell from the FSM if the clock is working the light should be working, unless the bulb is burned out. So i'm not sure.

 

i have no radio in my car at all and my guages work the only thing is that the white box in the kicker panal on the driver side blew so what i did was i found out that i was missing a ground from the cluster, addded one and bam i have lights butt no control to dim them
they trun on when i turn on my head light and marker lights

butt once i get another control unit for the guages im takin that jumper out

 

LoL, my clock light didnt work either... on my old 240 or new one..it actually worked once for one night then it stopped the next day again.. wth is wrong with these clock lights...