Alpine 9831 great, no gauges.

Hey guys whats up,

Ok so me and my friend installed my brand new alpine 9831 hu and after the install everything worked amazing. This really appears to be a quality HU because my speakers sounded better instantly, and they are stock. But when i pulled out of the fire house garage and my head lights turned on, i have a 96 cougar xr7 and they are automatic, my gauge lights didnt light up.

So i checked all of the fuses and they seemed fine. Only funny thing in notices was there was a 10 amp fuse in place where a 5 amp should hav e been so i just left it in place. Then i checked the ground wire.. i ran it straight from the end of the unit down the back of the console and grouned it down right infront of the shifter... because i couldnt get right behind the unit. Everything seemed fine but still.. no gauge lights. Than i undid that and ran the ground wire to the black wire comming out of the stock hook up thing and it was a ground wire so if figured that might work.. But still no lights.


What do i have to do to fix this?? just bring it in to a shop and not worry as much??

in most cars, there are fuses under the hood too

well did i most likely blow a fuse or did i just wired it up wrong?