I had all of the instrument lights go out on me recently. Is there a single ground point for them? If so, where is it? I checked the defrost light wire aft of the shifter. That's not the problem.

Probably the ground behind the fuse panel, drivers side. You might also have a dash light subharness that could be disconnected, its not very long, is behind the dash gauges, look for any of the black/blue striped wires to find the common single connector to the main chassis harness.

the common black/blue striped line was the one i was going to suggest - it runs thru all the dash lights - if there is a gap "early" in the chain, they all go

I had the pot go in my headlight switch. Lost all the dash lights. Rather than muck with it (I mean, they are so damn dim even with LEDs, why a dimmer?) I just bypassed the pot on the switch and have them just full on when I pull the lights.

The pot went before I upgraded to the LEDs.

Sadly, you have to pull the knee guard to get at the switch otherwise it would be an easy thing to check.

I find this to be the more common reason to loose dash illumination. the glue holding the wire coil fails, the wire bunches, shorts and magic smoke is released.

thanks to all

The car came with a JWest fuse panel installed by a PO. When I lowered it, the common ground point was obvious. This rectangular flasher fell out from above the lower bolster. There is also a flasher module on the back of the fuse panel. Any idea which is which? What is the empty relay supposed to feed?

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