Interior Panel Lights Not Working

If the stereos generally wired up correctly the auto dimming feature has nothing to do with the rheostat on the car that dims the dash lights All it does is get a signal from 12 volts in the car that the lights have come on so from the lighting circuit or what have you which is connected to the dimmer wire or something like that when you turn the lights on it automatically dims the screen correct but it has nothing to do with the cars rheostat for the dimming of the lights and should never. So maybe check the wiring again because apparently the stereo doesn't know you turn the lights on The only way it's going to know that is by a wired connection to a colored wire marked in the stereo diagram probably as the dim wire and then you have your yellow that takes 12 volts all the time maybe an orange or red that only gets 12 volts permanently for other functions a blue wire for amplifier antenna and so on and so forth I have seen where people have disconnected these things improperly and reconnected new things without consulting a wiring diagram and had some pretty good messes

 

Yeah I think all of your dash lights have to go through that dimmer that saying you turn to lower the brightness of the dash or display or whatever that is a thing I think it'll pop right out of its hole and you can inspect the back of it and all of that sometimes they wear out in the middle and all this kind of stuff I don't know the generation 3 control that well so there's always that somebody should be running along here any minute that has a wiring diagram and the two manual set for this car and all of that I would think directly. But I would certainly look at that rheostat control because I think most of your dash lights and all go through it to operate if you will that illumination light should come on as soon as you move the switch to the first position of lighting being on so your dash lights are on your stereo is on and then you see the stereo go dim when you put the lights to the first position should be automatic so then I would think maybe there's a problem with your combination switch which is your light switch and all that business behind the steering wheel highly possible I'm imagining you've checked all your fuses to make sure everything is spot on and not partially blown or anything intermittent.