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]

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to update you guys. I got my baby back this afternoon when I got back from class.

They charged me like $90 to fix it. Based off of the printout they gave as a receipt I blew something with my interior lighting mods, and they had to replace a connector and run a new wire. Whatever, I have my radio/ipod back and it wasn't too terrible. They told me that the lights not working I would have to take it to the dealer or a mechanic and get a new ECM/ECU. (this part still strikes me as odd considering a good majority of my other lights are working fine, just not my door courtesy, dome, or trunk ones.) Regardless, that will be my next fix I suppose.


As of right now I've disconnected my vent lights. If they were in fact the culprit, then I will need to redo the connections a little better. I feel like maybe I had a ground-out somewhere along the lines (I was using banana jacks behind the center console to do the majority of the connections w/ a 2x20 ga. shielded twisted pair running to the LEDS, switch, and cigg lighter. I'll figure out a better way to insulate them next time around I suppose, but like I said, for now I'm just happy to have music again.