heater control lights

**chief** · by **chief** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:41 pm

hi all does anyone know an easy way to change the bulb that lights up the heater controls its never worked for me and its now annoying me. i've got the haynes book and it looks like you've got to take half the dash apart!!!! any ideas?? :?:

**Kieran_Burns** · by **Kieran_Burns** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:44 pm

take a small child.....

You think i'm kidding?

You have to start with the steering wheel cowling and go from there... there is a how to somewhere - try a search on it and see

Stupink · by **Stupink** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:54 pm

you can reach behind from the passenger footwell... if you have monkey hands.. or pop the radio out and do it from above... oh er misses.... either way is pretty damned anooying... just get some of the dayglo paint and paint them. lol..

**chief** · by **chief** » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:17 pm

just ordered a new headunit so i'll have a poke round when i'm fitting that it don't look like much fun though [img]/sad.gif[/img]

**DBV6** · by **DBV6** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:04 am

Better order some elastoplast as well as the head unit

**SukySaggi** · by **SukySaggi** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:25 am

Try removing the glove box. If you can do that it should be very easy.

**Rusty_CallyT** · by **Rusty_CallyT** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:35 pm

wanted to do this on mine, not very easy at all, im just going to live with it

RobbieV · by **RobbieV** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:41 pm

<div class='quotetop'>(Rusty_CallyT)</div><div class='quotemain'>wanted to do this on mine, not very easy at all, im just going to live with it</div>

Easy to do, just need patience :wink:

mines done with red and blue led's looks great

Heres a site that shows you how to move the heater control panal

<a href="http://www.netcentral.co.uk/satcure/bulbs.htm" target="_blank">http://www.netcentral.co.uk/satcure/bulbs.htm</a>

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RobbieV · by **RobbieV** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:45 pm

Just to add

Heater panel lights always come on when you turn the ignition on, hence why they burn out so quick [img]/sad.gif[/img]
My led's are wired up to the glovebox light so that they only come on when the lights are on :wink:

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**Rusty_CallyT** · by **Rusty_CallyT** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:50 pm

its the unclipping of the wires on the back that puts me off

**Rusty_CallyT** · by **Rusty_CallyT** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 4:54 pm

hmm having read that u can get away without unclipping the wires... might try it

**craigmcd82** · by **craigmcd82** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:35 pm

Rusty,

Trust me - if you can take the dials out, you can easily do this job. The worst part IMO is taking the lower trim off the dials cos im always scared its gonna break. Follow the guide shown above and you cant go wrong. I did on my old cav and on then on this one the day after I bought it...

Just take your time.... [img]/smile.gif[/img]

**chief** · by **chief** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:12 pm

i've had the glove box out before when i was messing around up there for the trip comp so i'll give it all a go when the headunit comes(and the plasters). just out of interest robbie how long did your dash take to complete i've seen your pics and it looks the mutts nutts

**chief** · by **chief** » Tue Oct 12, 2004 10:15 pm

almost forgot, what bulb do i need?

**leegsi** · by **leegsi** » Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:47 pm

Push in ones the same size as the dash ones.

Ypu could allways fit LED's in that area [img]/smile.gif[/img]

Go well with my dials I had made too

heater control lights

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