I may have gone to far. I was tired of the standard green lighting of the buttons and display so I put in custom blue LED's in my 2004 F150 super crew. Everythings been great until today... a couple of my LED's were duds in my cluster so I opened it up and fixed them.... and added a couple more for good measure. Their all soldered to the terminals of the original bulb connectors.

Well anyway I went to plug it in to give it an overview and I heard a POP... (like an electronic short possibly). This happened when I plugged in the right side connector which supposedly controls the needles, the lcd milaged indicator and the lighting for the lcd as well... which were all on even after the pop. So I turnedd off the key and unplugged the cluster, opened it up and inspected for burn marks or the smell of smoke and found nothing. I thought it could have been maybe some plastic snapping into place. so I hooked it all up again... and the lcd lights, the lcd and the needles dont work.... and now (since for some insane reason everything is piped through the cluster) my dome lights, door and window control lights and auto windows dont work... and the radio won't turn on. I checked all the fuses and they all appear fine. Have I done myself in? all I wanted was a little blue...


*** also A/C doesn't work. When I first put the LED's in I needed extra stuff so I went to the store without the cluster in and everything that doesn't work right now failed to work then... just because the cluster wasn't in. So it's acting like it's just not plugged in... or I blew somethin

 

did some more digging and I found this site: http://www.fordforum.com/forum/ford-...cluster-20045/

Guy had similar issue and resolved it. His is a '02 though. I'm trying to trace back the wires... see if I can find which relay and if in fact I have a short somewhere


(please oh please oh please don't be a fried chip on the cluster)