Already did that there all good to go.

 

i'll bet fifty bucks you got an aftermarket deck in the car

 

^yep thats very common to mess up shit like that

 

you never hook up the orange wires.

 

I'll take a look at that but the deck has been in the car for a good little while now, what problems could an aftermarket deck be causing? What exactly am I looking for?

 

wrong ...... DO hook it up it will prevent it from grounding out which is what happened to this car slide out the deck cap off the orange wire in your car harness for the radio then replace the fuse........ and by the way the fuse box is in the drivers kick panel

 

All my fuses are good, I'll take the radio out and try this and see what happens. I don't quite understand how this would effect my lights but not the radio because it still works fine can someone explain this...

 

Do you have HIDS?

 

Nah no HIDs just stocks with amber corners

 

Put it this way if the orange wire did come loose and ground out, it would've blown the fuse. BUT if your SURE the fuse for the tail and dash lights is good, then only pull the radio out to use the orange wire to supply a fused(5-7.5amp) power source to it to see if the lights come on. and if they do without blowing that fuse then the problem is the dimmer switch. Also if you swear to it that the tail/dash lights fuse is NOT BLOWN then pull out the dimmer switch (use a butter knife or dull flat head screw driver to prevent scratchs) and give it a good tap or smack with your hand or very aggresivly move the plug aroung to try and see if there is a problem with the connection
i know first hand when i got my EG8 the dimmer was bad and i had to smack the dash right by the dimmer switch to get it working finally so then I replaced the switch

cliff notes:
try new dimmer switch
put power to orange wire behind radio to see lights come on