Weird Problem w/dash and lights

[SlackerCRX]

I have a 90 CRX Si w/ b16a swap-

Got a few problems. When I press the brake when I'm driving my seatbelt light and my door ajar light come on. But when I press the brake when the car isn't moving only the door light comes on.
It also does it when I push the horn. When I press the brake when I am sitting still only the door light comes on. It is very weird.

Also, my clock only works when I press the little button on the top right of the clock above the reset button( I think it's used to detect if that little plastic cover is closed. My lighter doesn't work. And, only sometimes, my Heater and AC control center doesn't work. I've looked around everywhere for shorts and can't find a thing, It's the weirdest problem I've ever seen.

The fuses on the Horn will blow, that's what makes my believe there's a short somewhere. But it doesn't explain why the lights on the dash come on when I press the brake.

Need help fast to pass inspection!!!

Thanks,
Brian

[CXhatchboy520]

Do the brake lights come on when you press the brakes?

[TXKompressor]

did you do your own wiring?

[SlackerCRX]

No, the brake lights don't work.

And No I didn't do my own wiring. But the kid that had it b4 me did some of his own, with riced out lights and stupid shit like that. But i've taken out most of that stuff.

[CXhatchboy520]

What I think is happening is that the retard connected the wrong wires to the wrong terminals.

[ezzzzy1]

Alot of times it only takes one wire to be crossed for alot of things to go wrong. If there is some getto wiring done with the lights start trying to trouble shoot the problem by going back and checking every connection that was made(all wires are color to color matched). Has it always been this way or did you change something and this started. What type of ecu, was there re-wiring from the orginal harness to a new one? Maybe a bad piggyback(wrong car to ecu match)? Finally are all the connections solid, make sure that all the wires that were messed with are at best soldered, and at worst still connected and wrapped.

[SlackerCRX]

Well, The problem started after I took the dash apart to try and fix the ghetto paint job he had done on it. I also replaced a brake light, and the only wires I messed with, other that just moving all the wiring under the dash around, was some fog lights that he had. I unhooked the switch, then when I hooked it back up, he didn't have the three wires labeled, so i guessed, and they didn't work. But I don't see how, if I crossed those wires up in the switch how it would effect my brake lights, horn, and interior lights....

I've tried trouble shooting. i've looked and followed every wire under the dash, i ripped out and unhooked the fog lights from the fuse box. The only thing I haven't messed with is the climate control, which has also been acting up.

I'm about ready to take it to an electrical specialist and have them try and find it, or re wire the interior or something...

[Cheio]

Check your backup fuse underneath your hood.

[ezzzzy1]

As stupid as it sounds, sometimes puting the wrong light bulb in a car will cause electrical problems on older cars. does the light work right? Again crossed wires will cause problems, check the wires that you re-connected. Are the fog lights hooked up to the parking lights? You are going to go crazy trying to figure this out, so is someone else, maybe go back to the basics and start over. If the problem started after you took the dash off thats the place you should start looking. good luck

[SlackerCRX]

Fixed the interior lights, well not all the way, it seems there's a bad connection in my fuse box.

As for the brake lights and dash stuff, I'm guessing the fuse for the stoplights are the same as the fuse for the taillights and there isn't a seperate fuse the runs the brake lights. I checked the light, they are the right lights. I replaced both of them and it still does the same thing.

Cheio, what backup fuse are you talking about?

I've checked about every wire I can without ripping the car appart. I have a b16 swap, but I didn't do it myself, I bought the car like that. The guy said he had the stock ecu in there. I thought he meant stock with the engine.I wouldn't think the wrong ecu would change something like that, and it wouldn't explain why it started all of the sudden.

I am at a total loss. There's an electrical place around me that specializes in car electronics. I might take it there, although it may be an arm and a leg to get it fixed. So if you guys have any other ideas, that would be wonderful.

[95GSRB18C]

as for the brake lights, check underneath the dash where the actual brake pedal attaches to the firewall on the interior of the car and follow those wires everywhere they can go (under the hood, to the rear) and see if that helps. I had to totally rewire my buddys CRX cuz his did the same thing. Good luck.

[Mr. NoSkills]

if the fuse for the horn keeps blowing, your brake lights will not work.
i worked on a car a long ass time ago that this happend too, the guy replaced everything, lights, brake light switch,etc.
i looked for blown fuses and found he didn't have a fuse for his horn because his aftermarket wheel as all jacked and the horn wouldn't turn off so he just left the fuse out.
fixed the horn, put the fuse back in and the lights worked fine.

[SlackerCRX]

tdjb-potc

So you're saying, I fix the horn, and that will fix the lights?

That doesn't make sense, but who knows, I'll try and fix it.

Any ideas of how to fix it????