2008 ford escape wiring

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Topic: 2008 ford escape wiring

Posted By: delrin
Subject: 2008 ford escape wiring
Date Posted: February 01, 2008 at 4:30 PM

Great site! I am hoping someone can help me. I am doing a project on a 2008 Ford Escape and I am trying to find which wire is the +12VDC for the dashboard lights (center stack, cluster, etc). I found the parking lights (thanks to some other posts) but the dash lights don't come on with that wire, only the exterior parking lights.

Any help is appreciated!

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Posted By: mobile1
Date Posted: February 01, 2008 at 9:37 PM

Do you have a Digital multimeter (DMM)? You should be using one to test wires in a car. What you can do is probe wires with your DMM and test to find which wire(s) show 12v+ with dash lights turned on.

Posted By: tedmond
Date Posted: February 02, 2008 at 8:08 AM

well the wire that i have for parking lights is VIOLET/WHITE in DKP. this should trigger your dash/cluster lights as well.

Posted By: delrin
Date Posted: February 04, 2008 at 8:19 PM

I tried the Violet/white in DKP with no sucess (~12 pin harness right?). I DMM all the pins in the area and couldn't find one that was +12VDC with the parking lights on. When I check at the switch there is a WHITE/ violet wire that is +12VDC when the PL are on, but when I hooked my relay to it, it just buzzed. I hooked the relay up using one of the typical relay diagrams on this site for a light flash. I realized this vehicle has the Autolamp, so I tried the by pass, that didn't work either. I did learn I can turn on the exterior parking lights, but not the interior cluster & dashboard which is what I need.

Does anyone have any suggestions?