Interior electrical/radio issue Options

[deathsythe]

Hey all, long time lurker, first time poster here, let me just start by saying you all are great.

I've got a ST205, and she's my baby. I've been doing a lot of interior lighting modifications, footwell tubes, LED dash, LEDs behind my vents, etc, and everything has been great until recently.

All of the sudden, I turned on my car the other week and realized that I did not have a working radio, clock, overhead light, nor the courtesy lights on the doors nor the trunk light. Everything else was working fine, all the extra lights I put in were working fine, the cigarette lighter was working fine, headlights, taillights, gauges, etc.

I replaced several of the fuses that could have been the culprit, nothing was blown, but I still had no luck. I replaced the dimmer switch (which from what I read online and saw in the wiring diagrams could have been culpable), still no luck

Can any of you guys help me out here? I checked out the wiring diagrams in my two manuals for the car and I cannot seem to trace out the problem that would isolate just those problems while leaving everything else, namely the cigg lighter really.


Thanks in advance!

[deathsythe]

Well according to the guy who did my radio install I need to take it to a mechanic or a dealership to get the ECM/ECU put back in, that is why I don't have lights. Evidently there was a wrong size fuse in one of the ports... I don't recall ever putting anything that wasn't the known size in there, but ok... balls.

Any idea how much this is going to run me? Ebay has em goin for a few hundred dollars. Also - if this is the culprit, is the ECU swap something I can do on my own? Or is it overly complicated and I should have a mechanic take care of it?

Also - does that even make sense considering the only lights that are out are the overhead, trunk, and courtesy door lights?

This post has been edited by deathsythe: Jun 30, 2010 - 5:07 PM