Dash lights not working...

[d-d]

Hey guys,

A few weeks ago my dash lights started to flicker off and on. (Like the speedo, fuel, boost & ododmeter back lighting). So i gave the little brightness adjuster a few harda turns to sort somehow jolt the lights into staying on. However, now the lights do not come on anywhere on my dash so im thinking it is just a loose wire somewhere, as the backlight of the fuel gauge is still slightly illuminated. Any thoughts or suggestions on how i can figure out a way to rectify this would be great, as it has basically stopped me from being able to drive of a night time now.

Dave.

[Magik32]

Hey Dave,

I had a similar problem in my R32 gtst for some time, my dash lights would come on, then go off. I'd hit my dimmer switch or something and they would come back, but eventually they wouldn't come on at all.

My blinker lights still lit up, so did my hand brake light, but no dash lights.

I took it to an Auto Electrician today and it took then about 2 minuted to figure out my dimmer switch was playing up, they took the dimmer box out and there was power at the end of the wire but the dimmer box was broken some how so it wouldn't return the signal or charge to say it was working to turn the dash lights on,

To get round this they just looped a wire from one side of the plug to the other, means dash lights cant be adjusted now until I somehow get a new dimmer box. we pushed the dimmer box back in its hole just to make it look normal still.

Sorry about the long post, but the information might be useful to you.

Magik32

[d-d]

Nah the long post is good, fully explains what i need to ask the auto-electrician to do.

Thanks for your help! Hopefully its a simple fix like that for me too.