Dashboard lights

**Arrow_Raider** · Aug 29th, 2009, 06:40 AM

The illumination bulbs in my car's dashboard (or instrument cluster) burned out and so I can't see what speed I am going at night. The service place charges way too much to fix it, so I want to fix it myself. Yesterday, I removed the dashboard from my car and replaced the 3 illumination bulbs. They did indeed appear to be burned out. However, when I put the dashboard back in, I still had no backlight on my dashboard. Do you guys have any ideas as to what other problems could be that would cause this issue?

**schoolbusdriver** · Aug 29th, 2009, 09:42 AM

Blown fuse ?

**techgnome** · Aug 29th, 2009, 09:59 AM

Rats... I was hoping to find paradise... oh well.

At anyrate, if the lights are good, time to check the fuse. It also wouldn't hurt to keep an eye out for an electrical short... blowing all three bulbs AND the fuse is a little suspect.

-tg

**Arrow_Raider** · Aug 29th, 2009, 10:01 AM

I checked the fuses before and after changing the bulbs, and they aren't blown.

**Siddharth Rout** · Aug 29th, 2009, 10:55 AM

Check the wires connecting the bulbs in the dashboad. Trace it all the way down... Try and smell them (I am serious)... Do you get any burning smell.

**Arrow_Raider** · Aug 29th, 2009, 11:01 AM

Alright. I fixed it. I had checked the interior fuses, but not the fuses in the engine fuse box. In that box, there was a fuse for the tail lights that was blown. According to the schematics, the interior illumination and the tail lights are in the same circuit. So I replaced the tail light fuse and now the interior illumination works again. That also explains the issue of no tail lights with headlights on issue I also had.

**schoolbusdriver** · Aug 29th, 2009, 03:34 PM

Told you so.

**mendhak** · Aug 29th, 2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by Arrow_Raider

The illumination bulbs in my car's dashboard (or instrument cluster) burned out and so I can't see what speed I am going at night. The service place charges way too much to fix it, so I want to fix it myself. Yesterday, I removed the dashboard from my car and replaced the 3 illumination bulbs. They did indeed appear to be burned out. However, when I put the dashboard back in, I still had no backlight on my dashboard. Do you guys have any ideas as to what other problems could be that would cause this issue?

Did you try closing all windows and restarting your machine?

**RobDog888** · Aug 29th, 2009, 08:36 PM

BSOD = Black Screen Of Death

**JuggaloBrotha** · Aug 30th, 2009, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by RobDog888

BSOD = Black Screen Of Death

Hmm..... this means vehicles are catching onto the MS bug and implementing their version of BSOD... this isn't good.

**demotivater** · Aug 30th, 2009, 09:48 PM

My car has a kick ass heads up display right on the front windshield. Sometimes, I turn all interior lights off (except for the radio on the dimmest setting) and drive around jamming tunes - all vehicle related information pops up on the front windshield (windscreen for you limeys). It's really cool until I remember that I'm not really going anywhere and not really doing anything other than wasting time in a really cool way until I get back home to prepare for work again. Dammit. And people wonder why I drink a lot. :/

**EntityX** · Aug 30th, 2009, 10:12 PM

You mean water of course.

**RobDog888** · Aug 30th, 2009, 10:43 PM

Originally Posted by JuggaloBrotha

Hmm..... this means vehicles are catching onto the MS bug and implementing their version of BSOD... this isn't good.

Ever heard of "Sync". Its in most newer Ford cars

**Shaggy Hiker** · Aug 31st, 2009, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by RobDog888

Ever heard of "Sync". Its in most newer Ford cars

If InSynch comes with Ford cars, that would explain the decline of the US auto industry.

**JuggaloBrotha** · Aug 31st, 2009, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

If InSynch comes with Ford cars, that would explain the decline of the US auto industry.

Yet Ford's one of the least hit auto companies, go figure

**Shaggy Hiker** · Aug 31st, 2009, 04:03 PM

GM had the Backstreet Boyz

**penagate** · Aug 31st, 2009, 09:21 PM

Toyotas come with Rhianna, which explains the trend of Prius vehicles being hit by UPS trucks.

Customers advised to "shut up and drive".

(Sorry...)

**RobDog888** · Aug 31st, 2009, 10:36 PM

lol no its "Microsoft Sync" foo's :no:

Ford has the number 1 selling vehicle in the USA and maybe the world, cant remember which it was lol

**namrekka** · Sep 1st, 2009, 02:22 AM

How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? ;-)

**techgnome** · Sep 1st, 2009, 07:57 AM

None, it's a hardware problem. Old joke.

-tg

**FunkyDexter** · Sep 1st, 2009, 09:12 AM

Personally I'd have just strapped a torch to the steering wheel. When the catch went on my back door I ran a piece of electrical flex between the rear door handles and pulled it tight enough to hold the door shut. I drove around for about a month with it like that. Luckily I never got pulled over.

**wild_bill** · Sep 3rd, 2009, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by RobDog888

lol no its "Microsoft Sync" foo's :no:

Ford has the number 1 selling vehicle in the USA and maybe the world, cant remember which it was lol

The Pinto

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