Dashboard Lights wont turn on

Read instructions that came with unit! Without specifics NO ONE can help you.

If you are mechanically inclined, begin by removing head light switch and disconnect the harness. This should turn lights off, is it does, you might have a bad switch or a shorted/grounded wire from switch to dashboard.

If you're smelling insulation burning - STOP. Fuses should be blowing before insulation melts / burns.

Have the car checked my a trusted mechanic before using anything in the car that makes the wiring burn or melt.

Did you install an aftermarket radio? Did it have a wiring harness adapter kit for the installation? If so, the adapter should have made the install a plug-and-play operation. If not, and you sppliced wires into the vehicle's dashboard wiring harness, you could have cut into something you shouldn't have. More than likely, during the removal of the old radio and installation of the new one, you inadvertently disconnected a non-radio plug/jack on the dashboard wiring harness. If someone else did the work, take it back to them and ask them to make it right.

Check the fusable links for corrosion

Try chrutchfield.It is easy to spend a couple of bucks for a adapter.Then you just wire the radio an plug it in to the factory harness.You can also try any local box store that installs radios,they will have the adapter harness.Well hope this helps.

Why do you need to remove the dash the front trim should come off then go spend 10 bucks on a wire harness adapter wire it to your new radio then plug it in to the factory plug from the back of stock radio.

CHECK DASH LIGHTS FUSE.THE GUY WHO PUT RADIO IN PROBABLY FORGOT TO HOOK UP YOUR RADIO ANTENNA LEAD.GETTING NO RECEPTION WILL CAUSE STATIC.

Pull it back out, (Radio) and recheck your steps. Something is not hooked up right. When you pull it back out, See if it goes back working normal. Retrack the wires. You cut are hook up something wrong????

probably the alternator is faulty, change it or have it rebuilt try that hope it works.
Linda