HELP Interior lights don't work
 

the lights for the climate control, steering wheel controls, small ambient lighting in the dome, hazard, and sport shift button all stopped working. I searched to see if anyone else had a problem like this and while there were some similar situations, my tail lights, brake lights, and parking lights still work.

Anyone have any ideas as to what this might be?

Any help is greatly appreciated

I'd first look at the fuse.

Which would it be?
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The wire for them is getting to the junction box with voltage

The 10A ROOM LAMP would be my first guess. If that's not it, it's probably in the IPDM. OM and FSM will have more info.

Checked that fuse it just controls the map lights. Also checked the IPDM. I'll take a look at the FSM but so far neither ALLDATA or Mitchell On Demand 2015 have been able to help me

If all appropriate fuses are good?

Look at the fuse box behind the battery.

All fuses are fine. Tested via multi-meter

If you are certain all the applicable fuses and fusible links links are good, then wiring is the next place I'd check. I'd start with the connectors closest to the battery/fuse. FSM has wiring layouts and connector locations.

Edit: Since so many devices are affected, the wiring diagrams in the FSM should be able to narrow down the possibilities.

all those lights are wired to connector E103 (to engine bay) pin 9f on the back of the junction box and then it is pin 8B on the M2 connector on the front of the junction box. I'm getting 12 volts from that wire so it has to be the wire along the way to those lights. I'm gonna go check it out.

I've had the same problem for a couple months. I asked the service department at my local dealership and they have no clue without me paying them to run diagnostics on it. It initially happened when I put an multimeter to the LED in the ambient light. Please let us know if you find a solution because it's driving me crazy.

Sounds like you are on the right track. The problem should be between M2 and where the wiring splits to the individual lamps.

It helps that I've been working on car electrical systems for 6 years but unfortunately I just ****** up my back so I can't do that now. Luckily I now work at a dealership and one of my friends works the service department so he's gonna check it out for me

Sorry to hear about your back. I can tell you from experience that pushing to get back into a normal routine can end up doing more harm. Glad to hear you have some help. Once y'all figure out where the wires are routed, narrowing down where the bad spot is should be pretty easy.

My friend said with the info that I supplied him, it'll probably take him 30 minutes to take care of.

And ******* up my back had nothing to with working on my car, It had more to do with moving a ******* stove by myself from the shed into the house

Might not take him that long. Fixing it may be the hard part (but it could just be a connector that needs to be reseated).

I was just saying take it easy until your back is completely healed. Digging through car wiring is not taking it easy on your back. Good luck with your recovery.

Ah. Thank you man I appreciate it

Figured it out. It's the white box underneath the head unit

Glad you got it figured out :tup:

Appliance dolly FTW. I picked up one on sale at Harbor Freight for $60 like 10 years ago. To this day, I swear it's one of the best purchases I've ever made lol.

Yeah after I moved the stove and ****** my back up, my dad asked how it happened and when I told him, he just said "you ******* retard."

replacing that piece didn't do it. I'm sad now. Time to put up the French flag and surrender my car to the Nissan service center

:thumbsdown:

GL

I've narrowed it down to the gauge cluster at this point. Basically bringing it in in hopes of them going "nope just a ****** up diode."

IIRC, the gauge cluster is considered one unit with no serviceable parts. :(

But just about anyone familiar with cars wiring should be able to run power through a fuse to the lights. Finding a source that is powered at the proper times will be the hard part and that should be pretty easy with the FSM. :)

Oh I know exactly which wire I'd have to tap into but honestly just don't have the time. If they say it's the cluster then **** it I'll buy one off ebay for $160 with a year warranty on it.

I just ordered a cluster for $160 with 6-month warranty on it. The way I look at it, if it fixes it, great. If not, I have a cluster to practice changing the LEDs on

reseated cannon plug(connecter). oh how sweet that is when you fix a Fucked up system that way.. LOLOL

we do it all the time..

I'm still keeping tabs on this so please update us when the new cluster comes in.

I know it's been years since you posted this, but I just had all my lights die when I touched a multimeter to the ambient light LED. Did you ever figure it out?