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      08 Chevy Aveo tail lights/dash lights not working

      My tail lights and dashboard lights stopped working. Break lights work, and all the other lights work fine, just those two aren't functioning. The mechanic told me I needed to replace my "instrument panel fuse block" and that it would cost me $750. That sounds pretty steep to me. Anyone know how I can maybe go about fixing this myself?


      also side note. My car wont shift out of park unless I press the override button, which is annoying. Anyone know if that might be related to this lights issue?



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      I have no experience with the 08 model, but I don't see how a fuse block can go bad unless it had a nasty short and melted it? Seems more like a bad ground somewhere. Hopefully someone with an 08 can chime in. But yes the two issues are likely related if they share a common circuit, ground or power feed. If you have a digital volt meter I would check all the fuses and trace down to which circuit is bad, or if not, start tracing the ground circuits that ground the dash and tail lights. In a worst case scenario you can run a jumper wire to reroute the circuit around the failure, assuming you find one. If you need help I can try and find the schematics for an 08.



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