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Hey Guys n Girls,

I have a problem with my aircon unit.

When i turn the parkers on the actual lights behind the push buttons will not turn on. (ie. ON button, OFF, TEMP >, TEMP < etc...

Its hassle at night when u can adjust the temp properly wihtout havin an accident.

The digital aircon display works fine and it dims aswell when the prakers go on.

anyone else have / had the same problem ?

possible suggestions please.

Thanks

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If you search, there's a thread in here about it.

More than likely, your bulbs have blown.

There are two.. one does half a side of buttons. They are a normal globe in a swanky socket that Nissan wants $18 each for. The globes have blue rubber caps on them to make the colour a light blue/green. This also helps kill the globes in hot summer heat. There is a guide here, and on the Silvia forums on how to convert your globe sockets into LED globes, which shouldn't blow.

Thanks for ur help Randy.

I bought the pair of globes at Peps auto parts for $ 3.95

The blue caps were melted onto the old globes...so i just put the new ones in as is.

strange as both bulbs blew out at the sametime ...i thought it was a problem with the unit.

But all is well now....

Oh yea when i finishes puttin everything back together the unit would not turn on. I blew the 10Amp fuse under the dash somehow.

I was bangin my head against the wall i thought i had to strip the dash apart again. But luckily i checked the fuse panel first hehehe.

Thanks

haha mine have never worked lol, thought it was wierd that they didn't have lights in them lol (nearly 5 years haha)

how did you get to the globes? does the face just disconnect?

Jetpilot: no worries mate! I would suspect that one would blow, then the other would go later, then when the car is imported here, they're both dead. =-]

Craved: Just remove the unit like you would the head unit, and then on the back there are two holes on either side. In those holes are the back of the globe-holder. Use a flat-head scewdriver and unscrew! Then pop them out and all you need to do is buy the globes.

I'd suggest getting a 1.2watt bulb instead of 1.4watt if you're not using those rubber caps. It should not be too bright, and shouldn't melt anything if you drop the wattage.

be careful when removing all the plastic components on ur dash as once they crack or break it will never go back in flush and it will rattle.

Take ur time with. It is a lengthy job but its only becoz u have to be careful unclipin the plastic pieces out and puttin them back in.

oh yeah once u put the new globes in...make sure the unit works and lights up before refitting all the stuff.

oh yea some idiot at nissan in the service centre said the unit does not light up...thats why there are indicators on the windscreen button and recirculate button on the aircon unit.

ha...i show him for the benfit of society and job security.

LOL =-D

Nissan Australia mechanics don't really work on many Skylines, since there were only 100 R32's ever delivered to Australia. The rest are all imports and people find GOOD mechanics to work on them.

cheers for the help RANDY and Jetpilot... ive got plenty of experience taing the dash to bits.. mine been customised a fair bit by myself..

must be a fairly comon thing, cos im not sure ive ever seen any light up lol

u know where the clock is on the dash....i cut a round hole just below the clock to the right

and installed a boost gauge...it looks like a factory fitted item.

an a small led red light for when u hit the boost button.

it looks fly

SUPA-FLY? =-p

Nice work though!

Hey Chris, what was the bulb that came out? I haven't replaced mine (only one faulty) yet. When I had the bulbs out I was doing my headunit and didn't have spare bulbs on me at the time.

Could you read off the text off the old bulb or take a photo of it next to a 5c piece? Cheers!

hahaha, just took out the unit .. found the reason my lights have never worked.......

cos there wasn't any :lol: now im gonna have to wait for someone to find out what is the replacement bulb...

basically looks like a push and turn with 2 tabs opposite each other. but the terminals are on the flat surface that it clicks into..

i can take a pic if you still want it.

Nah, i've taken them out before (read my post above).

I just didn't pull the actual BULB out of the holder when I pulled the holders out. I don't want to dismantle the dash, then have to drive down to JayCar or whoever to get the bulbs with the dash apart. (I also CBF putting it back together just to make a trip to get bulbs, and have to pull it apart again) =-]

where can you actually get those bulbs from? actually...where can you get the holders from? Nissan charge heaps for it ($26 for the larger bulb with holder and $20 for the tiny one with holder so i was told). Right now, my whole climate control doesnt light up.

where can you actually get those bulbs from? actually...where can you get the holders from? Nissan charge heaps for it ($26 for the larger bulb with holder and $20 for the tiny one with holder so i was told). Right now, my whole climate control doesnt light up.

I bought them from Dick Smiths. They are called "grain of wheat or rice" from memory.

Have a close look at the holders and you will see that they are just that. They hold these small bulbs in place and make contact.

You will be able to see that the bulb wires are just wrapped around the holder. Just unwrap the old and wrap the new and snip off the excess.

Enjoy!

El Bee

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