I know this is a Mercedes forum, but enough of you seem to have Miatas and nobody over at Miata.net are responding to me so meh here it goes.

I noticed last night that my tail lights are inop but the headlights are functioning properly as they should. Tyler had taken the lower dash panels (kick panels) off and replaced them, and since then the dash light have been out. He thinks it might be an issue with the dimmer switch, but would that also effect the tail lights?

I'm very fluent with Mercedes vehicles (own a 1980 300TD and a 1988 190E) and this is my first Mazda. I love the thing, it's amazing so far!

If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. The fuse will not stop blowing, and I know there is a relay or something I should look in to, but I find it odd that the dash lights and tail lights would go out due to a dimmer switch.

This morning I removed all of the tail lights, parking lights, and dimmer switch so there was nothing connected and it blew the fuse. I replaced all of those lights just because I was already in there, but I did not see any corrosion or short circuits that I could point out.

I switched LA-10 relays up front to see if maybe a bad relay was causing this to happen, but no dice.

Basically I'm not really sure where to even start to trace down a short on this one. I see that this is a common problem, but most have been easily resolved. Mine seems a little more involved.

Do you guys have any idea where I should start looking for shorts/corrosion/etc?

Thanks