Front Panel Lights went out after installing new stereo deck

[dmandave]

Alright so I just got a new 10" sub, 500w amp, and a new deck. I installed the new deck and had to cut all the existing wires from the stock deck and splice most to the new deck. When I finished I found that the front panel (speedometer/tach/fuel) light no longer worked. Checked all the fuses, all good. Cant figure if mabye one of the wires should have connected to something and I cut the circuit.
Current wires left unattached:
Blue on yellow (12V switched)
Orange on green (no current, possibly the spliced wire???)
Green on white (12V switched, controlled by headlight switch, Fuse #9)

Any help would be awesome, I'm a 17 year old high school kid who's just getting into this and needs a little help, thanks in advance.

- Dave ([email protected])

[rollins097]

there's a chance you may have cross wires somewhere, I did by accident once and some smoke came out from under the steerng wheel.
If you pull the access panel off, there is a small black box, looks like a relay, it's the illumination control module, of something like that. you may want to take a look at it and see if it looks or smell burnt.

This was in a 97 Legacy GT, not sure what your car is.

Good Luck with it.

[02legacy]

I have a 2002 legacy and i did the same thing were you able to fix it? if so how?

Originally Posted by dmandave

Alright so I just got a new 10" sub, 500w amp, and a new deck. I installed the new deck and had to cut all the existing wires from the stock deck and splice most to the new deck. When I finished I found that the front panel (speedometer/tach/fuel) light no longer worked. Checked all the fuses, all good. Cant figure if mabye one of the wires should have connected to something and I cut the circuit.
Current wires left unattached:
Blue on yellow (12V switched)
Orange on green (no current, possibly the spliced wire???)
Green on white (12V switched, controlled by headlight switch, Fuse #9)

Any help would be awesome, I'm a 17 year old high school kid who's just getting into this and needs a little help, thanks in advance.

- Dave ([email protected])

[rollins097]

I just replaced the illumination module, relay looking thing..
everything has been fine since

[02legacy]

Originally Posted by rollins097

I just replaced the illumination module, relay looking thing..
everything has been fine since

where did you buy the illumination module (relay)? I whent to the dealer and they wanted $234 just to look at the problem. So I need to fix this my self and any help would be much aprieciated

[rollins097]

I think the dealer wanted about $80 for just the module...I got it from a local family owned garage, who sells used subarus and parts, for like $20...

even for the $80 dealer part, it only takes like 5 minutes to change...and if it doesn't fix your problem just take it back....if the module doesn't fix it, then they may have to look at it.

Good luck with it.