I took out my factory headunit a long time ago, and replaced it myself with an aftermarket. Yesterday, I replaced that aftermarket. Everthing works except my dash lights.

The head unit hasa Orange w/white Stripe that is suppose to be connected to the Illumination wire. The wire harness has a solid orange illumination wire, and a orange w/black stripe Negative Dimmer wire. What needs to go where to make my dash lights work?

The solid orange in the wire harness is what needs power. I have it temporary hooked up to the red 12v accessory power supply, so it turns off when I turn my car off. But that way, I cant dim my dash, and plus its not how its meant to be set up.

Thanks in advance!

 

sounds like you blew a fuse. Check all of the fuses and make sure the orange wires you are not using are capped off properly.

 

I did find a blown fuse.

What am I suppose to hook up the Negative Dimmer wire to? And the Illumination wire? (Both of these on the ford wire harness)

The only thing I have on the headunit is Illumination.

Wheres the dimmer wire go? Ground?

 

hook up the illumination wires from the hrns from the deck, just insulate the dimmer wires.

 

Changed out the fuse, works fine now. I guess it got shorted out without me realizing. Thanks.