Tons Of Electrical Gremlins Tonight!

Nickisa0 · May 29, 2009

I had my girlfriend swapping my dome lights to LED's and she says "while I was backing the screws out the dome light went off" and since then I haven't been able to get them to come back on. I tried swapping back to the regular bulbs and it didn't change a thing. I figured I would just deal with it and fix it later. I went to install LED's into my HVAC panel and realized I didn't have my torx wrench with me. So I reassembled everything and started the car and drove home. On my way back home I immediately noticed my aftermarket cd player and speedometer were nolonger working. I was instantly frustrated, when I got home I tore back into my dash to see if wires were messed up. I search for a good 30minutes and couldn't find anything wrong with my wiring. Then I went ahead & installed LED's into my gauge cluster, it went smoothly. I put it all back together and then I noticed that my tach nolonger worked... Now I noticed that my unlock/lock buttons, power mirrors, door chime, keyless entry, remote trunk release nolonger work. When I press the "unlock" button in the inside of the car my signal lights come on.

List of what isn't working:
Aftermarket cd player
Dome light/map lights
Speedometer
Tach
Unlock/lock buttons
Mirror buttons
Keyless entry
Remote trunk release
Door chime

I have no clue what's going on here, I just know everything worked perfectly up till an hour ago! Where do I start? I checked the fuses and they all came back to be fine. So what do I do now?! For reference I have a 1998 Mustang GT.

Nickisa0 · May 29, 2009

Re: Speedometer, Dome Lights, Door Chime & CD Player Don't Work Randomly..

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Nickisa0 · May 29, 2009

I found this thread that seemed to be my "saving grace": http://forums.stangnet.com/524946-speedometer-dome-light-radio-not-working-need-help.html

And then I found the interior fuse panel for my car:

Went out & tested all of them and only found #4 to be the only blown fuse. Anyone have any ideas?

95cvgt · May 30, 2009

i would double check #8, seems to be everything thats out in your car. might as well replace it to.

**and p.s., some one correct me if im wrong, but is the fuse box for the 94-95 set up different then the 96-98??, just wondering** so i would look into that if i were you, might as well replace the fuse, cuz it could turn out to be the right one

Nickisa0 · May 31, 2009

Well I just learned my lesson about visibly inspecting fuses....

Both #6 & #8 looked just fine, I popped new ones in both of them and instantly the door chime and the radio popped on!

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