94 Talon lost center bezel lighting

milrite007 · Apr 19, 2008

Hey,
I installed a new stereo in my Talon. (old one bit the dust) .Before that every thing worked. After install I lost the lighting around the center bezel(A/C button, temp dials ect.) . I have checked bulbs and they're fine. Any Ideas? Ive searched all the threads( I think) and can't find anything.

milrite007 · Apr 19, 2008

Ok I've seen some other posts about this now. I know its not fuses. Every thing else works. Tail lights and all. I'm thinking it has to do with the Illumination and dimmer wires. My radio doesn't have a seperate illumination wire on it. the car illumination and dimmer off of the radio plug are not hooked to any thing. I know that they have power when the lights are on and not when lights are off. Any Ideas how to route them to hook to center dial strip?

Waldos-R-us · Apr 20, 2008

Which radio plug the harness side or stereo side? It seems like its a dimmer/illumination issue. Did you try hooking them up before/during the install? Try hitting your dash midly soft to somewhat hard do the lights flicker on for a second?

milrite007 · Apr 21, 2008

The car side of the plug. I tried bumping the dash out of irritation but no luck.
There is no place to hook them up as my head unit has its own lighting. Funny thing is they work with the old stock stereo hooked up. Its like with them not plugged in, it breaks the circuit or something.

pb4ugotobed · Apr 22, 2008

You Probably hooked something up wrong. First, remove your stereo and unplug everything. Then check to see if your dash lights work (i'd bet they do). If in fact they do work with everything aftermarket unplugged, then cut and insulate any of the orange wires on your stereo's harness. Don't hook them up at this point. Do your dash lights work now? If so, then you can hook up either the solid orange, or the orange wire with a white stripe (depending on what brand your harness is made by) to the illumination wire in the back of the radio. Do not connect the orange wire with a black stripe to anything, this is dimmer. aftermarket radios use the ILLUMINATION wire, not the DIMMER wire. make sure you don't have these backwards.

milrite007 · Apr 22, 2008

Thanks but as I stated earlier this new radio has no illumination wire on it. It has 1 batt wire for clock and memory, 1 ignition wire for power , and 8 speaker wires. kinda hard to hook it up wrong. The orange and white wire and the orange and black wire from the car harness are both wire nutted and taped off. I've been hooking stereos up for 25 years and this has me scratching my head. I know that the harness illumination wire ties into the running light circuit some where, but this crappy wire drawing I have doesn't give enough detail. Oh yeah, as I said before, the dash lights work with the old blown radio installed but not with no radio or the new radio.

X-Pride · Apr 22, 2008

Are you hardwiring the stereo or are you using a harness? Sounds like you have the illumination wire as a hot wire. You might want to use a voltmeter to make sure the wires you are using for memory is 12 volt when the key is out of the ignition. Then check the accessory wire only get 12 volt when the key is in acc mode. I seen people make mistake and hook up the illumintation wire as the acc wire. Which will cause the symptom you are expierencing.

milrite007 · Apr 24, 2008

Folks,
I appreciate all the effort to help but if your going to respond please read the whole thread to see where we've been already.

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