Instrument cluster lights

[NcTurnL]

Hey guys

The instrument cluster lights in my car do not work. As in the speedo/tach gauge cluster, the little light above the headlight knob and the center console lights do not work either.
This just started happening a couple of days ago, but before it happened, sometimes when I tapped the cluster its self the lights would come back on and stay on, now they just stay off...

Any suggestions on what it could be?

I searched but I didn't find the info I was looking for under my symptoms, If it helps any, I made the mistake of putting my hazard switch into the defroster ( or a/c , dont remember which exactly) plug, could this have disrupted anything?

Thanks guys!
-Jon

[Court M3]

check the plugs on the back, sounds like a loose connection

[91_tragedy]

I had previously moved my hazard switch around, and had no problems, sounds like a loose connection or maybe? a bad ground, if they all just went out

[friday]

Check your #23 fuse, right taillight, rear side markers and plate light.
If you have any of these symptoms read thread "tail light fuse keeps blowing".It could be the same problem.

[NcTurnL]

It looks like all of my fuses are good
All of my exterior lights work also.

I thought about a plug on the back, but I checked them all and pressed all of them in again and it does not work. But I think it has to be from a source other than the IC because all of my interior lights are out Except my dome lights.....I have nothing in the center console either, no radio no OBC its blank for right now.

Ehh what about the rhetrostat? the little lgiht knob that controls the headlights and dimming, I heard when those go out, your interior goes out, but how do I check that

[NcTurnL]

Bump!

[friday]

If the fuse isn't blown then the problem is a loose wire, ground or the reostat in the switch.

[NcTurnL]

Ive heard you can by pass the rhetrostat?
How can you do that