2001 SE gauges.

I was installing some chinsy T5 wedge type LED's in my dash tonight, and I decided to try changing the turn signal bulbs too, I started with the Right signal.

I installed the LED, put it in place (while the blinker was flashing), but nothing happened, I tried reversing polarity, nothing happened. So I tried the old bulb, nothing, tried a bunch of other known good bulbs, nothing. The bulb WAS working before I removed it and started messing around.

So I tested for power to the circuit board, no power.


All my exterior lights work, and the Left signal in the gauges still works fine too. All other lighting is working fine also.

Anyone experience this odd problem? I'm going to look at some of the FSM wiring diagrams, but I'm hoping someone has dealt with this, search returned not hits for this particular issue.

 

Well I'll try to go through harness terminals and back trace tonight. I'll post my findings if I find the problem. This is a strange issue though, the FSM diagrams show it fused with the rest of the components, so it almost seems that it has to be a bad/burnt connection.

 

Ok, I tested the harness, and it's ok on the plug side. So I'm going to wait until I get my other LED's in the mail before I take it all apart to find/fix it. Worst case I can always jump a wire over in case the board fried a bit or something.
Thanks for all the help I joke, I joke,

Here's a pic of the cheap blue T5 LED's. They're just as dim as the stock ones, but I have a feeling the gauge lights don't run a full 12+ volts anyways, I'm going to check that when I pull it apart because I'm curious.




I can't wait to get the 3mm and 5mm LED's in so I can get some under the needles and add some more to the gauges. I'm also curious what's illuminating under the needles, it seems like there is another hidden bulb or LED under there. There's no bulb on the back side.

 

Worst case scenario..when I had my 93 camry I broke part of the circuit board behind the cluster making the turn signals not work. Being a noob with a lack of a wiring diagram I ran wires from both of the front signal lights back into the cabin and wired them to 5 mm leds which I put in the back of the cluster. Obviously I'm sure you'll find a more legitimate solution but that ghetto wiring got my camry by a few more months before she was totaled.

 

Problem found. I'll bridge that with a copper wire, no biggie.




Cheap dam T5 LED crap. Don't EVER buy that junk off Ebay.


I would be royally ticked if I wasn't taking everything apart to do farther LED work anyways.