Dash Lights not working

[chrisJDM]

For quite a while now my dash lights have not worked, i have checked fuses and also Ross at Dragon has checked fuses and had a quick look and also a guy at a local garage and cant figure out whats wrong with it, the guy at the garage tried cahnging bulbs and still not working.  Anyone else had the same problem?? :mad: Any suggestions of what it could be?

[pete sparrow]

Might have one of the elements or resistors burnt out in the dash pod itself.
Or a bad connection in one of the sockets.Check sockets and element connection first on back of dash pod.

[Phil]

Can I be the first to suggest turning up the \'dash lighting brightness\' knob next to the heater controls?

[ds2000]

^ lol.

Check the PCB, sometimes capacitors can burst and corrode the PCB tracks, I can\'t imagine it\'d screw the whole dash up though

[chrisJDM]

hehe yes ive tried the brightness knob it wasant that, i will have to take the dash apart and take a look, the whole dask lighting is gone, the speedo etc all work fine its just the lighting

[the lemster]

just a thought...

if you have played around with the centre cosole/stereo area you might have knocked a wire out the back of the dimming control,

take the steroe out and  in on the right there is a small black box ( ooooh sounds like a plane)  in the back of this theres some connectors, you ahve to push in the little clips to release it ... a bit trocky the first time you do it

replace these and then sede if it ahs made a difference, check the wirse are not broken...disconnected

good luck

[chrisJDM]

ok will do cheers