now that the subject has been brought up.... i have a blown LED in my instrument panel, and the guy at the dealership looked at me like i had eight heads when i souhgt a replacement.... anyone have a suggestion as to where i can find a replacement LED? don p. 84 westy carolina ri Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET> wrote: Thanks, good thinking. I will follow your suggestions as soon as I can. Does the blinker module (which one is that) also run the dash LED? My blinkers are working, and I know they are on because i can hear the click, click click. Jim
On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:45 AM, John Bange wrote: >> Today I swapped out that instrument console for yet another one I'd >> collected. Now EVERYTHING works EXCEPT the turn signal indicator LED. >> >> Is that LED a common problem? Should I be looking for the wiring >> somewhere else? > > Well, my original "no tach for you! Only clock!" instrument cluster > had a bad oil pressure LED (no wonder the PO thought it had no oil > pressure issues), and if you take apart the housing that holds them, > you find that the LEDs are in slip-in connections. They're a little > hard to get to, but they're easily replaced. This leads me to believe > that they are considered a replaceable failure item, albeit a fairly > uncommon one. But if you have it not working on TWO clusters, I'd say > go ahead and pull the main connector for the dash module and make sure > it's working at that point before futzing with that stupid flimsy blue > plastic circuit. Near as I can figure without chasing lines all over > the Bentley wiring diagram, the Blue-with-Red wire provides an > intermittent ground path for that LED in time with the blinker. An ohm > meter between that and chassis ground should give you an idea if it's > working (for the sake of the meter check with it set to volts first, > on the off chance I'm an idiot and it provides 12v, not ground; > wouldn't be the first time I've misread a wiring diagram). Also check > the mechanical condition of that pin on the connector, make sure it > can make good contact with the folded over plastic foil sheet thing. > If all that seems OK, then I'd check the LED. > -- > John Bange > '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger" >
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