Q: Gauge lights won't turn on dimmer is not the problem nor fuses then what is?

asked by on March 29, 2017

I tried changing the instrument lights and as soon as I tried to turn it on to see how it looked the lights just went out tried starting the car again took out the batterie and started again but not light what can be causing this ? How to fix ?

My car has 144000 miles.

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