Carib dash lighting

[Simon K]

Anyone changed the bulbs behind the dash in a 99 Carib?...The one behind the Tacho has blown(not too much of an issue in an auto)but it looks a bit naff when the lights are on and half the cluster is lit.

Any tips or tricks?

[.samol.]

sign up to ae111.co.uk there is a tutorial for a levin there which could be quite similar

[Alex B]

They are pretty self explanitory. Undo all screws around area. Reach hand to back on dash, remove the 2 or 3 plugs going into the back of it. Once its out you should see some little things you can twist out. Bulb behind each one. Do the lot IMO, saves doing them again for a while.

[2LTR Rona]

Si, should be a piece of cake (if similar to an AE101 GTZ)

Pop the cover on the underside (side that faces down to steering wheel shroud), remove 3 screws, jiggle cluster & extract through opening.

One interesting thing I found out (not sure if same for yours) is that the main cluster lights are on the same fuse / circuit as the tail lights, fuse blew = no tail lights & no dash lights, replace fuse all worked. Seemed rather odd to me but weirder things have happened

[Simon K]

Si, should be a piece of cake (if similar to an AE101 GTZ)

Pop the cover on the underside (side that faces down to steering wheel shroud), remove 3 screws, jiggle cluster & extract through opening.

One interesting thing I found out (not sure if same for yours) is that the main cluster lights are on the same fuse / circuit as the tail lights, fuse blew = no tail lights & no dash lights, replace fuse all worked. Seemed rather odd to me but weirder things have happened

I've had *that* fuse blow a couple of times(previous audio gremlin posts)but everythings working fine at the moment, bar that one bulb that lights up the lower half of the tacho. Might leave it for a professional as my sausage fingers cause only problems with car stuff.

[slacker]

One interesting thing I found out (not sure if same for yours) is that the main cluster lights are on the same fuse / circuit as the tail lights, fuse blew = no tail lights & no dash lights, replace fuse all worked. Seemed rather odd to me but weirder things have happened

Its done as a safety thing, so that you know the fuse on your tail lights has blown,

[2LTR Rona]

Si, should be a piece of cake (if similar to an AE101 GTZ)

Pop the cover on the underside (side that faces down to steering wheel shroud), remove 3 screws, jiggle cluster & extract through opening.

One interesting thing I found out (not sure if same for yours) is that the main cluster lights are on the same fuse / circuit as the tail lights, fuse blew = no tail lights & no dash lights, replace fuse all worked. Seemed rather odd to me but weirder things have happened

I've had *that* fuse blow a couple of times(previous audio gremlin posts)but everythings working fine at the moment, bar that one bulb that lights up the lower half of the tacho. Might leave it for a professional as my sausage fingers cause only problems with car stuff.

Spoken like a true courier eating pies on Lambton Quay take a stab at it, you can only but fck it up

[Bling]

If its anything like an AE111 Levin, its a piece of cake.

Pull off the surround clip on dash panels, undo the screws above the speedo, pull out the surround, then a few screws to get the cluster out.

Even if you stuff it up, you can drive it to get fixed without the cluster installed

[Snaps]

You could always change the colour of the lights while you're doing it.... looks a lot better white than green (assuming it's green.. most older Jappa's are).

Oh, if they use simliar bulbs to the supra (just incandescants, I said that ^ because I did the same thing on my supra) then you could replace them with LEDS from SuperbrightLEDS.com.

[Bling]

You could always change the colour of the lights

If you do decide the buy light bulb 'condoms' put a prick in the end, saves to taking the dash apart again then the heat causes them to get pushed off the bulbs