Thread: dash lights wont work!!! please help

i have a 1997 GTP... i just got a new system and i installed a new head unit and when i got it all hooked up and it was all working fine and then i noticed i didnt have any dash lights so i checked the fuses and none is blown...so now im at the point where i have no idea what to do...? please help this is a daily driver so i need dash lights....

I drove my SSEi around for 2 years not knowing why my dash lights didn't work.
It started when I pulled the Alpine deck out and put the stock one back in. I checked the fuses and none were blown. I went through all the relays, checked literally every ground making sure they were cleaned, di-electric greased, and didn't have any broken wires going into them, along with cleaning the battery terminals and inspecting the wires for corrosion.
After 2 years of living with just HUD and the interior lamps I happened to change the PCM/BCM and found that didn't fix it. I went to pull the fuse box, but as a last resort before pulling the fuse box and replacing it I pulled EVERY fuse out, checked it and put it back in. WALLA!!! There were no blown fuses, but apparently the fuse for the dash lights wasn't making a good contact.

In your case where wires were cut, there is a good chance that the power wire for the dash lights might've gotten cut and not respliced or spliced back together wrong.
Best of luck with fix.