dimmer switch or short in the parking lights?

[Johnny0225]

my lower dash lights went out, 3 main guages work, but dimmer switch does nothing. stereo shorted it out possibly?

Even better, my tail light fuse under the hood blows everytime i turn my parking lights on. bulb lights up when brake is applied, but not in dim mode. unplugged everything in the circuit and still blew the fuse.
any ideas???

[BT]

Unfortunately, too many possible issues. A bad socket somewhere? Bad wire? Bad switch? All are possible suspects.

I would tend to rule out the switch since the fuse blows when it is turned on. All the switch does is send a signal to the relay that controls the rest of the circuit.

[Johnny0225]

Its gotta be a short in the wire or bad ground. I unplugged everything that lights up at night n still blew a fuse. Something went bad between the switch n my fuseboxes