Ford Focus Instrument Panel Illumination Not Working - Help!?

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I have a ford 2003 focus and when I turn on the car and turn on my headlights, the instrument panel is very dim. I've tried using the dimmer switch but it doesn't work. Sometimes when I turn on the car the intrument panel is illuminated perfectly, but it quickly dims down when I try to take the car into reverse. The shifter's light also goes out when I do this too. So I'm guessing the shifter's light is connected to the instrument pane's light in some way? I'm not sure what needs replacing.
 
there appears to be a number of problems with the instrument cluster illumination you can go to a few websites and look into it and get more information www.carcomplaints.com has a lot of complaints for the ford fucus and www.arfc.org/complaints/2003/ford/fucus will also have plenty of information on complaints and any factory recalls and you can also do what I did first which is type ford focus instrument panel problems in the search web box and take a look at the results page
 
all these illumination bulbs derive their ground source from the cluster illumination dimming module.Since there is no blown fuse problem wire shorting is out of the question. Most probably just a loose connection or need to replace the module.
 
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