Well, tonight I turned on my a/c and the panel lights went out. the sliders and button lights still come on, but I can't see any of the symbols.
So what should I do? Also, what color was it anyways? I can't remember if they were blue or green?
Jae

 

haha my bulbs burnt out too, and i still havent fixed them
on the actual unit there are two bulbs on the left side, and two bulbs on top of the unit that you can replace,

as for where to get the bulbs, im guessing the dealer b/c i havent been able to find bulbs that size at any local store

 

search on this. its been talked about a lot recently.

 

I'm not sure about teh bulbs inside the AC unit but for those 2 on the left side and all the rest of the ones in the dash in all the switches, you can pick up those bulbs from any radio shack
do some searching if you want the part number. I posted it a while back but dont remember it exactly

 

i did do many searches but could not get any relevant info. what search words should I use?
so the accessible bulbs are probably the ones I need to replace huh? I'll give it a look.
Jae

 

here you go Jae
http://www.geocities.com/craigbraceg...ment_bulbs.jpg
you may have to cut/paste or sacrifice a small child or whatever geocities makes you do now to see the pic

if you cant load it, it has a pic of bulbs with 2 part numbers
one is for the stores - 272 1092
one is for online (I think) - 900 2616
the 1092 parts comes in packs of 2 for $1.49 and I've seen them even at teh small Radio Shacks they have in malls
the 2616 are a little bit more - something like $.99 each
I think they're both the same

they're called 12v microlamps I believe

Those are only for the 2 lights on teh side of the AC unit (the one above and below the lever on the left side). Take off your radio trim piece and if you look at the edge, you will see 2 small rubber rectangular pieces that pull out. Take the old bulb out (note the way the legs are bent) and then put the new bulb in and bend the legs the same way as before. Those bulbs also work in all the dash switches like I mentioned before.

I'm not sure about the ones above the vent selector switches (head, feet, head/feet, defrost/feet, defrost). But you'd have to take the whole unit out to get to those. You may be able to do that by removing the radio and then dropping it out through there.

good luck Jae

VE 5spd POWER

 

awesome. shouldn't be too hard to get into the dash after reading the clock removal page. i'll take some more pics
Oh yeah, craig, do you want my notes to replacing a VE alternator?
Jae

 

my gosh, getting to the panel was a PITA! I'll try and document everything when I put it all together...When I finally got the panel out, I was looking for bulbs...which lead me to taking apart more things that I needed to. Turns out my bulbs were ok, but not secured. I ended up replacing the lil lights on the left (cooled or warmed air flip switch).
Just to let y'all know, the background light cannot be changed from the usual green. However, The LED's in the individual buttons might be colored green, so those might be swappable. However, I got so frustrated that I didn't go that far.
Jae

 

The panel lights went out on mine the other night also. I gave the dash a good smack and problem solved.