What do I need to do to fix this? Lights on the right side don't work. Anybody had to replace the bulbs before? Not sure on where they're located and what I need to take off to get to them

 

Lots of people have. Pretty much have to take off whatever you need to take the instrument cluster off. The dash bezel, I think the lower trim piece just below the steering wheel to get the bezel off, then the instrument cluster. The bulbs are on the backside of that.

 

remove the 2 black or silver dash trims, they just pop off. remove the 2 screws behind them ( 1 on each side) pull headlight **** out and turn it to find the notch, then you use a flat tip screwdriver or whatever you got to press the little spring towards you and pull **** off. put the gear shifter in 1st and lower the steering wheel. pull black cluster bezel off. and the rest should be pretty straight forward, just 4 screws and the white cable for your gear select.

 

Yep, as others have stated the cluster removal isn't too difficult. The bulbs themselves are in these grey plastic little housings that "screw" into the cluster. It'd be a good investment to pick up some LEDs instead. They're a lot brighter and they don't burn out! I got blue ones to match my aftermarket gauges and radio.


Admittedly my camera makes them look more purple but they're a pretty deep blue color. If you look on Amazon or Ebay they're "194" bulbs if my memory serves me correctly. I got a pack of 10 for under $5 which was enough to do the gauges plus the HVAC controls, with 1 or 2 to spare.

 

Sweet! Can I get LEDs at a part store?

 

yes

 

Yep, they typically sell them at parts stores. Here's the ones I got on Amazon. With Prime next day shipping they were like $14 total.




IMPORTANT: When you're installing LEDS, polarity matters! Bulbs it does not. Basically just install them all and before you put it back together pull the light switch so they come on. Whichever ones are not on, flip them around 180 degrees in the little plastic housing and then put them back. I know this from experience -.-

 

How do you remove the white cable? It's got me hung up and I don't wanna break anything

 

This

 

I just did a thread on how to remove the gauge cluster by the way, might help i posted plenty of pictures, as well as show you how to change the color of the Dash to Any color you would like. as for the white cable you will need to remove the Steering column plastic cover to disconnect it from the shifter. 4 Screws underneath and removal of the Tilt column **** if you have it.

(Any other color led other then Green or Blue Does not work with the stock gauges due to the green tint of the gauges my thread shows how to remove it to allow use of any color you like)