Date:         Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:59:44 -0700
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From:         bob bob <heymrpep@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Question about turn signal indicator light
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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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