miked5426

Im not getting any power to my license plate light.

is there a fuse for that light? i dont see anything in the manual. the connections are all good. when i tested the wires, theres no power there.

miked5426

bump!

iboost

iTrader: (16)

I'm looking at the schematic for your car and your licence plate bulb gets power from the same place as your tail lights. So, if the licence plate bulb is the only thing out, then you either have a blown bulb or possibly a shitty ground

ptrblkz24

Did u test the wires with ur parking lights on?lol

miked5426

Duh.


I still cant find where the wire goes. It was working before i had car painted. I took off tail lights n put em back, but ive done this a few times without issues.

selfinfliction

maybe you should take them out again just for fun?

miked5426

no cuz every time I do, I lose a nut. lol.

Nighthawk243

Are you using LED or a regular bulb. If LED, did you put it in backward?

It could be possible that the bulb socket has corroded contacts, try taking a small screwdriver and scraping them clean.

miked5426

I bot an led cuz i was gona put it on. But first, theres no power to the factory light. I tested it too, nothing. Even put a new bulb to be safe, nothing. Alredy got pulled over once by cos. I.needa fix it and i dont wanna have to run a fresh wire....

iboost

iTrader: (16)

is the ground good?

miked5426

Well i was told it gets power from same spot as tail lights n they work fine. Where is the ground ?

iboost

iTrader: (16)

One of the wires goin to the bulb has the power. The other is ground. You just have to trace wires. If you can a multimeter, you can do continuity checks on the wires to make sure there isn't a break in them.

if you have a break in the power wire before the bulb, that will cause the bulb not to work. If you have a break anywhere in ground, the bulb won't work. Seeing is your car is an 05, I would think it could be corrosion.

miked5426

it was working perfectly fine until i took it to body shop to get painted last week. nothing was messed with. i unplugged it and tucked it inside bumper. then after 5 days i took it back out and screwed it on. this is really weird. and since the wires are all inside the bumper, theres no real way to trace the whole wire. i know how to, just this is bs

koch1ar

you get off easy ehh??

If theres a ton of wiring, it might be easier to just rerun the 2 wires

Nighthawk243

Take it back to the body shop and bitch. They might've forgotten to plug something back in.

miked5426

thats the thing. they never did the unplugin stuff. i did. they only mask off and shoot. its up to me to take off what I wanted. im just wondering if they got it wet somehow. which is why i was wondering if there was a fuse. not to mention the factory lic light blows *****. its so dim. i really dont wanna run another wire. certainly wont be easy without taking bumper off

iboost

iTrader: (16)

There really isn't much you can do. Either troubleshoot...or rerun wires man...sorry.

OneCOLDBIZL272

iTrader: (2)

well either re run wires or start taking everything off again to see what you did to the ground.

iboost

iTrader: (16)

shitty grounds can really mess somethings up. In my old cavalier I had a bad ground and it totally messed with my car's head light system

07MetallicSC

iTrader: (16)

subd since mines been out for two years lol

iboost

iTrader: (16)

haha thats awesome. You can be on the "look, I fixed it" site if you just duct tape a flash light to it and turn it on at night

miked5426

it may get to that point. lol

iboost

iTrader: (16)

lol, i was lookin at the schematic and the power wire that goes to the light is brown and the ground is black. I would just redo the ground. Find a good chassis ground and run a wire from that to the bulb and it will prolly work

miked5426

Thanks. I just re did ground on my battery. Whata shitty ground factory has!

iboost

iTrader: (16)

so you good?