Q: How to fix the flickering cluster light issue
My Nissan Maxima got a new stereo installed by a friend of mine. When it got installed somehow someway the cluster lights that show me my mph gas level and everything now doesn't work and I drive in the dark with no interior lights on the cluster panel. When I removed the stereo and stuck my hands back behind it and mess with cables it flickered the cluster Light Panel on but no longer does that anymore and I can't figure out how to fix it can someone please help me
My car has 130000 miles.
My car has an automatic transmission.
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