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DallasBill
03-14-2007, 01:25 PM
About a week ago, when I started up, the left half of the LCD display was barely lit up. Does this mean the whole LCD Module is going, or...?

Searches here didn't turn up anything conclusive.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/Billusa99/LCDModule.jpg
whiskychaser
03-14-2007, 01:53 PM
You prob just got a bulb out. They are 1.5W
95///M3
03-14-2007, 02:15 PM
About a week ago, when I started up, the left half of the LCD display was barely lit up. Does this mean the whole LCD Module is going, or...?

Searches here didn't turn up anything conclusive.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v72/Billusa99/LCDModule.jpg

I have a few lines out completely in mine... is this a bulb issue too? Kind of doubt it.
pingu
03-14-2007, 02:20 PM
It's the bulb (or LED?) - the left hand side of the LCD is still working, it just isn't being backlit properly.
pingu
03-14-2007, 02:23 PM
By a few lines out, do you mean that a few horizontal rows or a few vertical columns of the pixels have stopped working?

If so then you've got a bad connection between the driver circuitry and the LCD display. The bad connection could be on the LCD display itself. It's not the bulb.
95///M3
03-14-2007, 02:56 PM
Horizontal lines.
Blitzkrieg Bob
03-14-2007, 03:01 PM
Horizontal lines.


you could attempt to fix it.

It may just be the connector strip has separtrated from the screen.

or pick one up off of Ebay
DallasBill
03-14-2007, 03:03 PM
It's the bulb (or LED?) - the left hand side of the LCD is still working, it just isn't being backlit properly.
Gotcha! Thanks!

I finally found this via a link at Bruno's... http://www.lehrmangroup.com/rickard/airBagAndBulbs.html

Since I am going to sell the car in the next little while, I'll better spend my time cleaning it up with a little spit and polish... ;)
ROBMPULSE
03-14-2007, 03:24 PM
Yea, This Is Definitely A Bulb Issue. A Slight Tap On The Cluster May Get You Down The Road... But It's Time To Replace The Bulb And/or Make Sure It's Not Working Itself Loose......
Qube
03-14-2007, 04:07 PM
Bulb. If you don't have an airbag, it will be a cake walk to change :)
Ross
03-14-2007, 04:55 PM
The display is backlit by bulbs, one has burned it's last.
DallasBill
03-14-2007, 07:25 PM
Bulb. If you don't have an airbag, it will be a cake walk to change :)
Have airbags... that's why the next owner will deal with it... :p (with full instructions, of course)
Blitzkrieg Bob
03-14-2007, 07:40 PM
when you sell the car
RallyD
03-14-2007, 09:25 PM
yeah i have a bulb out on the odometer. i like it because i dont have to see that my car has more then 200K on it every day. sure doesn't feel like it.

i also had some pixels fading out on me, pushed on the cluster and it all came back on.