Dashboard lights dont turn off? Need HELP!!!

**TH85** · 01-09-2009 10:51 PM

I got in my car just now (cold out) and turned on my aftermarket xenons and now my dashboard lights are inverted (bright when lights on) and everything on the dashboard isnt working....speedometer, odometer...

how do i shut it off? pull the fuse of the dashboard? anyone know what number that is?

thanks!!

**TH85** · 01-09-2009 11:12 PM

i took out fuse 15 and that turned off the dashboard lights (the lights stayed on when the car is turned off). i then put a new fuse in there and the dashboard lights up so something is wrong. i left the fuse out so i dont run out of batteries....

what do ya think i should do?

**oneohone** · 01-10-2009 12:39 AM

Weird, I think I have the same problem in my S4. Maybe that's why my battery keeps dieing.

**zrowcool** · 01-10-2009 05:25 AM

check the ground connections on the bulbs. i had a similar issue with led bulbs in the taillights. whenever i would break my entire dash would light up

**TH85** · 01-10-2009 10:27 AM

forgot to mentioin that the dash lights dont even turn off when i turn off the car...they stay on, but i took out the fuse so i dont kill my battery

**Siena** · 01-10-2009 01:48 PM

Sounds like a broken earth connection.

Or moisture ingress somewhere...

**Dallas09** · 01-10-2009 03:27 PM

Yeah I swear aftermarket xenons will make stuff act weird. When i turn mine on some type of warning light will quick flash, it will be either a seatbelt or coolant or oil or brake light.

**keeganhartman** · 01-10-2009 05:31 PM

did you just install the xenons?

**Siena** · 01-11-2009 03:08 AM

I doubt the Xenon's have anything to do with the dash lights remaining on.

**TH85** · 01-11-2009 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by keeganhartman

did you just install the xenons?

theyv been in for almost a year...but iv always had problems...i think they messed up the wiring....i always get a "power surge" when i turn them off that resets the radio and sometimes blows the fuse, and now i have a feeling it screwed up my dashboard.

im taking it in on monday to have the wiring looked at..

**99A4B5Quattro** · 11-04-2015 08:45 AM

I hate to revive an old thread, but was anything ever found about this? My interior lights stay on permanently unless I pull fuse 15. No one seems to know anything about it.

**walky_talky20** · 11-04-2015 11:53 AM

Which lights, specifically? The dome lights and footwell lights and such? Trunk lights? (AKA "courtesy lamp circuit"). Or the dashboard "illumination" lights (gauge backlights, radio button backlights, window switches, etc.)

**99A4B5Quattro** · 11-04-2015 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by walky_talky20

Which lights, specifically? The dome lights and footwell lights and such? Trunk lights? (AKA "courtesy lamp circuit"). Or the dashboard "illumination" lights (gauge backlights, radio button backlights, window switches, etc.)

The backlighting for radio, vents, HVAC, etc... Dome lights seem to operate normally.