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I just installed a new stereo in my 2001 mitsubishi galant. Now my dash lights don't work along with the lights by my right arm that illuminate the parking, neutral, and driving states. A rear tail light has gone out but i don't believe it's affecting the dash lights. I also checked all fuses and they're fine.

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  • Anonymous Jun 17, 2010

    I also installed the harness that i think you're referring to. My friend helped me color coordinate and solder the connections from the stock to the harness. No wires were cut in the process, only stripped. I'm starting to think it could be extra illumination wires coming from the stock harness that would have hooked in to the factory radio. They might have to be grounded.

  • Anonymous Jun 17, 2010

    I've been researching this a lot and i found that without those illumination wires not being attached to anything make the connection incomplete. So there is no power going to any of the lights on my dash except highbeams, check engine, etc.

  • Anonymous Jun 17, 2010

    thanks

  • Anonymous Jun 17, 2010

    thanks

  • Anonymous Jun 17, 2010

    the problem ended up being a blown taillight, figures. i was so afraid i knocked something loose in the console but that didn't end up being the problem at all.

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Not to bash on you or anything, but alot of people try to save money and not buy the pigtail for the stereo that will plug into the cars harness and the radio. they start cutting wires and start haveing other problems. The stores should push more to purchase these pigtails. now days everything in your car is a computer. even your instrument panel is a computer. cut the wrong wire and let it short and you have problems. you may have to replace the instrument panel to fix your problem. you can have it checked at a shop

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  • Randy Ohler Jun 17, 2010

    If you got the correct harness there would not be a need to splice or strip wires and solder them together.and besides the instrument panel all other lights have there own ground. if you cut one the others still work

  • Randy Ohler Jun 17, 2010

    again I say that the radio has its own ground it connects into the harness with the instrument panel, not from the instrument panel. good luck

  • Randy Ohler Jun 17, 2010

    thats a new to me thanks

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