Q: Instrument panel lights on and rear wiper not working. What do I do?
The lights were working before but I was trying to replace the normal fuse with an led (led fuse that lights up when dead) the instrument panel disappeared changing the fuse again did nothing no lights on ignition, with this the rear windscreen wiper stopped working (was changing all fuses to led) now if I revert to the normal fuse it does nothing, although these functions were working perfectly 1 hour before.
I did check the fuse diagram for my vehicle when fitting the fuses so the order cant be wrong.
My car has 71000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
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