HEADLIGHTS WONT COME ON

there is a regulator for the display brightness, you may have it turn'd down or it has stopped working;. it controls the brightness at which the dash lights are. usually has a speedo sign on it. goes up and down. it works with the main light and is conecter to them on the same lighting board if it has gone then a new light swtch control switch will be needed.

Your high beam switch is bad most likely.

first thing to do is check all your grounds batt. to engine batt. to body batt. to frame then have someone scan the bcm body controll module that operates the headlights ,int.lights, doorlocks, ect.

It turns out that I had the twilight/sentinel slider all the way to the left , which stopped the lights from coming on automatically. Thank god for this forum because I saw someone mention this silder in another thread and it made me go check the position of mine. I'm sure if I would have taken this to a shop , as I was intending on doing , they would have slid the switch over and charged me for some bogues repair.

So , once again , is well with me , my lights and my BPA

Thanks!

Did you change your dimmer switch? When my rear lights and dash lights stopped working the fuse was blown, but the transistor inside the dimmer switch (just left of your steering wheel) was blown also. (had my dad check it with the multimeter). You'll need a narrow flat head screw driver to pry it out, start at the bottom, that's where the metal clip that holds it in is. Cost me $5 at the junk yard. Hope this solves your problem, annoying isn't it to not be able to drive at night.

There is a circuit breaker inside the headlight switch body. It gets weak over time and use. The breaker is actually mentioned in the owners manual. A new switch is about $75.00 at the local parts store. You must remove the front of the dash to change the switch. Mine would go off and then in about 30 seconds reset and the lights would come back on. I would be driving down the road with my headlights flashing as the circuit breaker opened and closed. New switch = problem fixed.

The sound system was causing to much of an unpredictable power usage on the headlights and the fuse has blown as a safety precaution.

Well...lets start with the obvious. Check fuses and NEVER piggyback any stereo or security stuff into their fuses...you dont want the lights to shut down during a night drive!!
Check under the hood for a relay center...also has some fuses there as well.

The Daytime Running Lamps are a "straight through wiring configuration". Doubt it even goes through a headlight switch at all.
But the regular lights do.
Unless you've worked on the front of the car and forgot to plug the headlights back in, do this...
Turn the light switch on...looking at the instrument cluster , can you make the high-beam-indicator light come on?
As you rotate the headlight switch knob...does the instrument panel lights brighten or dim? You probably have a faulty headlight switch...auto stores have them...they simply plug in.

you have the radio hooked into the illumination wire most radios this is a orange wire try unhooking that

check the turn signal switch