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caraboose Enthusiast

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I've done some searching, but I haven't really found anything on here, or on Google, so please forgive me if I missed something obvious :)

So just around the 187000km mark on the odometer, a few lights (I'm guessing LED's) have started to die.

 

The temperature control slider lights have died, as well as a few in the gauge cluster, I'm just wondering as to why they're dying? Being in the electrical field, I've seen numerous LED's that have lasted much beyond 4000 hours, which is what the truck hour counter is at roughly.

 

I've taken a picture, albeit crap quality, of the gauge cluster, I'm not sure if you can see where the lights are dead.

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In case you can't see where they are they are the left side of the fuel gauge, pressure gauge, and the right half of the speedo.

 

I've taken both temperature control cluster and gauge cluster thing out of the truck, but they were next to impossible to open, so I gave up before I broke something.

txab Senior Enthusiast

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Actually the '03 still had regular bulbs. I think this continued 'till '06. You can convert them to LED. Several write-ups on the subject

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I know I seem like I am a shill for this guy; http://www.dallasclusterrepair.com/

but he did my IPanel and recently did the lights in my HVAC on my 2003. THe HVAC lights are a light red/orange because the OEM bulb color are not available. The HVAC lights was $30 to have it done, IP was $125

caraboose Enthusiast

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Actually the '03 still had regular bulbs. I think this continued 'till '06. You can convert them to LED. Several write-ups on the subject

 

Could you shed some light on where to find that/those? I looked and can't seem to find anything

 

I know I seem like I am a shill for this guy; http://www.dallasclusterrepair.com/

but he did my IPanel and recently did the lights in my HVAC on my 2003. THe HVAC lights are a light red/orange because the OEM bulb color are not available. The HVAC lights was $30 to have it done, IP was $125

 

I'll look into those guys if I can't fix it myself.. not really wanting to spend that much money sadly.. lol

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