i was puttin in my neons myself at like 10 last night cuz i just got a body kit and carb tail lights on my 93. and while putting in my neons i pulled out the panel where my stick shift is and the radio panel. i started cutting to many wires and left my car on while i was doin this. my hood started smoking by the digital clock and i started to flip. my fuel and temp bar are like burnt now when i turn the headlight on its half missing, and now my lights for like all the air ways to blow the air dont light up and my dash for the speedometer/rpms doesnt light up. i checked fuses and there good but if anyone has ideas on wtf to do please PLEASE tell me.

 

oh yeah i cut the wires by the cigarette lighter, there were 5 wires, 1 ,red 1 w/black stripe, 2 black, and white w/ blue strip, i figured out to late that i was supposed to connect the positive to the white w/blue and the ground to the black for the neons. i figured out that the 1 red and one black light up this small blue light that when you turn on your lights that turns on and say your car door is open the lights are on but the car is off itll make a noise so you know your lights are on but when its not connected it wont make the noise. but i still dont know what the other red and black are. i couldnt connect one of the red back together cuz i cut the wire so short and i cant fit my hand in there now. i think i need to buy a sodering iron. please post replies to helkp me out sum. thanx in advance

 

STOP!!!!!! You will do even more damage to your car if you think you're going to fix this mess. I don't mean to sound nasty, but if you didn't know what you were doing (believe me, you don't know what you are doing), you should have had a professional or someone you have confidence in do this. FIND SOMEONE WHO KNOW'S WHAT THEYA RE DOING! So, here's the first step..... find all the wires you cut, and reconnect them properly (the correct colors, which should not be that hard to do). Here's the kicker.... you saw smoke. Smoke is bad. Very bad. This obvoiusly means you "smoked" something, but it can be near impossible to find what you damaged without tearing the car appart or running a full diagnostic. You'll need a digital volt meter, and a wiring diagram from either Chiltons or simmilar or the factory tech manual. I'm sorry, but you will need some serious technical ability to find what blew up, and no one can tell you what it was by just describing you saw smoke under the hood.

Oh, by the way, NEVER work on electrical with the engine running or battery connected.

 

so you just started cutting wires, not knowing what they were? :eh: :slap:

 

You fried something. I'd go with what fastball said and undo what you did as best as possible and take it to someone who knows what is what and have them do it. You may have damaged more than you think at this point.

I'm also going to go with what Snoopy ( :gorgeous: ) said, and agree. Never ever ever do work on the car while it's running or without knowing what your about to cut. Only to have the car running if your diagnosing something. Then TURN IT OFF!! Then work.

Good luck, hopefully it's fixable. Just make sure you learn from this and don't do it again. Like fastball said... not trying to be mean... but that was a bad idea. Sorry you made it, hope it can be fixed... but for your sake and the cars sake... learn from this.

 

Wow, just wow

 

sounds like you sent power where power wasnt wanted via shorting everything to everything else.

sorry, but it sounds like everything on the dash is trashed.


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another happy neon light owner!

i'm amazed that you didn't electrocute yourself, that's one blessing to count, at least.

as far as your car is concerned, you might as well look for the "JDM Prelude TYPE R 4th Gen dash kit and center console." it's Uber Bling, y0.

 

ok this is the deal homies, i reconnected the 5 wires back together but i still have no power to dash i mean when my headlights are turned of my dash is fine. but then when i turn the headlights on the gas bar and temp bar look burnt, and none on my lights by the vents work and my speedometer/rpm light dont work. also my clock works when lights are on or off. what i think i did was fry the wires and need to get new ones, and the only thing that i "burnt" was the fuel/ temp gauge. the smoke came from above the glove comp area not the hood sorry.

so if you have anymore insight let me know. oh yeah and whats this jdm crap? and how much money would it cost to fix my problem drift? oh yeah and how to i make my dash lights blue instead of the neon green they are, even though they dont light up, lol

 

hey guys this is what i mean so you have the same picture that i have, man when this happened i was so freaked im pretty sure its not super huge problem or atlest hopen so here it goes this is what happned.