Here's how it goes...

ALL lights on car are working fine. Change Strut. When putting panels back on in trunk, poof all interior lights go out... WTF? Did I kill the bulb? NOPE. Jack up a fuse? NOPE. So I say to myself "Dammit I'll do it later, nice to have no interior lights when your out in the middle of no where moving from the front seat of the car to the back.

Months pass.

Get into the car one night in a hurry to go "out". Turn on the headlights, wait no, where are they? Dammit, no time, got stuff to do. Turn on the highbeams and drive off. Again, fuses? Nope, Dammit!

Months pass.

Turn on the car to go tomy hotel room over Christmas, WTF... why aren't the reverse glow gauges glowing? They cars on and the lights(highbeams) have been turned on, why do I have no lights on my dash!? Dammit, wife wants to get back to the room. FINE!

A month n 1/2 has passed since Christmas...

Took leave for last 10 days to get the car ready for a cross country drive. 20% of cars probs resolved(TIB's always have 100 probs in the making at anypoint in time). Last major probs I can pick out are the interior lights, the lowbeams, and the gauges all don't want to light up. Completely clueless as to why the interior and lowbeams don't/won't come on and the gauges, I guessed, was b/c of the black relay box( I think its got a relay... It's the little black box that the powerwires, button/switch, and gauges all plug into.). Removed the cube and wires the gauges straight to the power. Multimeter says gauges are getting power but arent lighting up. How good are the chances that all 3 separate parts got toasted at once? Anyways... got any suggestions?

Anyone ? sad.gif

 

that little black box from my "indiglow" guages screwed up my electrical system too. Similar to your story, all interior lights and the left corner, left tail light, and left licesnse plate light went out (it kept blowing a 10A fuse under the hood). Took it to the dealer and two shops, (all with different fixes, from a bad tail harness to bad alarm wiring), but a month or two later the same thing would happen. I finally cut out the black box (inverter/transformer), and everything has been fine since. Hope this helped.

 

ya i removed the gauges this morning and im in the process of making sure the dash is accurate. new prob now, the gas needle aint moving. the things all stiff... lights still arent working though, and i have checked all the fuses...

UPDATE!** Headlights working. Somehow, Both lowbeams blew out at the same time... luck huh? found this out after tracing wires all over the car, checking them with a multimeter. interior lights and gas gauge still in the works though...

Im running out ryte now to fill up the car with B12 and gas. Hopefully I can get the gas gauge working, it's still stiff and seems like its sticking. Im also going to pick up some deep creep or whatever intake cleaner I can get ahold of. I have almost stripped the whole car looking for relays or switches that can be messing up the circuitry to the tiburon, but only one I have found was the one next to the steering wheel under/behind the dash. Still no interior lighting dammit...

 

If you put on different guage faces and the gas needle doesn't work, chances are you put it on too tight, you may have to rip your whole dash apart again and stick the needle on very LOOSELY (make sure to fill the tank up right before you do it so you can just put the needle back on at FULL)

Usually when all your interior lights go out, it's the 10amp fuse under the hood, which also controls one of the tail lights/blinkers (can't remember which side), I'd check again. If you have a short you will just keep blowing that fuse, but that's the good thing about fuses, they're cheap, whereas if you got a short and then had to rewire your entire interior...that would just suck.

 

if you've installed any relays in your vehical or anyone else has installed a relay, you should make sure it's reverse emf protected. it needs a reverse biased diode across the coil. when a relay's magnetic field discharges it's stored energy it will send a negative voltage back the other direction causing possible damage to anything that is in that circuit. the diode shunts that negative voltage.

you should look at a possible loose ground wire or power wire somewhere causing a on and off to the circuit.

if you have LEDs in your car make sure they are on an isolated circuit of their own. LEDs block a certain ammount of voltage unlike incandescants.

 

check the reostat on the lower left of the dash. I had mine go (actually the dealer fried it) and had no interior lights until it was replaced.

 

^^^ that's a good point. Check the emergency blinker triangle, as it is a breakout point for the dash lights.