Dashboard lights I have a 2005 ford taurus, at night I can't see how fast I am going, I believe it is a fuse, because I recently put a new radio in the car and I believe the person whom put the radio in my car did not disconect the battery. Which fuse in the box do I need to replace. I do not want to inspect each fuse, because I am not really a mechanic and don't want to break a fuse. Which number fuse controls the dashboard lights?

You may need a new Vehicle Speed Sensor. It is located on the Transmission on the Passenger side out-put shaft housing.

The fuse could be labeled as 'Ilum' or 'Dash'.

When you replaced the battery, you may have blown the fuse that runs all of those accessories. I would check your fuse panel for any blown fuses.

some stereos have a fuse in the back that also needs to be replaced.

Hello Mr Machanic. :-(
Sorry.

My nephew has a 96 taurus also when his radio went out he noticed that his speedometer was not working as well so we check the fuses under the dashboard and found that a fuse from the radio memory was blown . We replaced it and the radio and speedometer and the odometer worked fine

Something similar happened to my 2005. the gauges went crazy! stopped half way or dropped completely down. Like the fuel indicator, speedometer, tach. While I never lost the radio or headlights, I did lose my dashboard lights--pretty creepy at night. My husband did some online digging and found the problem. In the dashboard gauge set-up there is a poor solder on one of the electronic components. He took the gauge center off, popped it open, found the crappy solder, fixed it, put it back in and it has worked fine ever since!!!



the ****--Ford knows about this faulty soldering and since it doesn\'t happen to ALL of the cars--just a select few(even more models we found out later)--they won\'t do a recall. Even if you take it to a dealership for them to fix, odds are they could replace it with an entire unit with the same problem. Your best bet is to fix the bad solder yourself or find someone who can.

more than likely be a fuse at fault.check fuse box in car for the proper fuse and replace with one of same ampage.

Owners manual should tell you where the fuse box is, I can't remember off the top of my head but it may be under the dash on the drivers side, there is also a box under the hood but I don't think the dash light fuse would be under there.

If the fuse is good the dimmer on the dash could have gone bad.

THE PROBLEM IS A BAD OR SHORTED PINS OR CHIP, SO YOUR BEST BET IS THAT, TO REPLACE THE CLUSTER, SORRY.
ALL NEW CLUSTERS ARE ELECTRICAL NOW.
WHAT YOU CAN TRY IS TAKE THE CLUSTER OUT AND LOOK FOR ANY BLOWN RESISTOR OR METAL CARRIER.
IF IT WORKS AT NIGHT THE LIGHT SWITCH IS SENDING THE POWER TO THE UNIT. AT DAY TIME ANOTHER SOURCE IS SENDING POWER TO IT. SO THAT CHANNEL MAY BE BLOWN.