I do not have power to an after market radio, the light in the center console that shows the shifter position i.e.: R, N, D, 3,2,1 as well at the light in the cargo area in the rear hatch.

Are all of these on the same circuit. Most likely a Fuse? What else could be the cause.

Please let me know.

Big "Ed"

 

Have you checked the bulbs yet?

 

Yes,

I replaced both

 

radio should be on its own circuit unless it was wired into the lights. start pulling fuses and see if any are blown

 

I have 2 questions for you:
#1 Did you use a wiring diagram(and if necessary a multimeter?(some cars reuse colors in stereo wiring harness...)) and know that all the wires are right
#2 Did you cut the stereo harness wires, esp. more than one at a time, with the battery connected? Or make an incorrect splice with battery connected?
Chances are you blew out a fuse or two, even if its not for the radio, so check them all.

 

No,

I myself did not cut anything. The radio had been installed by the previous owner and had been working according to him but when I took over the car it never worked. The radio is a Sony aftermarket radio.

I check the fuse for the radio and it is not blown.

Any other ideas?

Let me know.

 

Ok, but did you check ALL the fuses? And previous owners words aren't worth their weight in hot air. If it were my car, I would check all the fuses, and double check they wired the damned thing right.

 

chances are the PO just hacked the plug away and wired the radio to whatever power source they could find in the general vicinity of the radio. which more often than not, causes some sort of wiring issues down the road.

 

let me ask ya to look a little further. does your pwr lock, lighter and dash lights work? the reason i ask is my car had a very similar issue and it happend to be a chunk of harness behind the fuse block that was being rubbed by the dash support bracket.

that bracket rubbed all of the insulation off on my headlight wires and wiper wires and caused them to have issues. after i re coverd everything and protected it from rubbing again i havent had any issues.

my friend has an 86 T/A and had all of the same issues your having because of the same chunk of harness.

 

there is a brown wire and an orange wire in the radio area, one is for illumination and one is for dim, wire them up wrong and your illumination will not work and neither will the radio. peopl tend to use the illumination wire for ground, since when the headlights are off it is ground. well you know what happens after that

 

It's on the CTSY fuse circuit (radio accessory power, hatch light, dome light, footwell lights, power locks, lighter)... The shift indicator light is probably dead (not related to the CTSY circuit) or broken. Look for a coin or something in the lighter socket, one of the most common reasons the fuse dies. Also, I had a problem years ago where one of the wires for the hatch light switch ended up getting nicked by something and shorting to the body, again killing the CTSY fuse. Should be a 15A (blue) fuse right next to one of the holes in the block for a circuit breaker.

Lighting wires in the radio area should be gray (only orange wires in the area are for the console compartment light if equipped, radio constant power, and the lighter socket), just like the rest of them for the interior lights. Do pull the radio to check for a PO rat's nest of wires back there. Do the lights for the heater controls and the instrument cluster work? If they do, then the problem is between the heater controls and the shift indicator light (BIG splice in the harness behind the heater controls for the light circuit).

Would help to know if your car is a Camaro or Bird, too...