dash lights

[grayg40]

just a quick one, can you change the dash light bulbs that light up the dials?
my mph one went first then a day later the rev counter one died.

cheers
mark

[Jezza-7]

Yeah you can. Its a bit of a pain as you have to take out the clocks. My mph went about 2 years ago, im just very lazy and havent changed it. Also i dont drive much at night lol.

I think you can get bulbs from halfords and iirc the very small.

[Lost_Cause]

I had one of these gone recently. Turns out,it wasn't even blown.
With the clocks out, I did a quick continuity test & power wasn't getting through the bulb.
I cleaned the flexible pcb (someone can inform me of the technical name) with contact cleaner & made sure the bulb had good contact again using the continuity test. Works away now.

My LCD clock is acting up intermittently now......sort that another day.

[grayg40]

cheers lads,
i want this fixed so i dont miss the beast hitting the 250k mark

[Justin14100]

cheers lads,
i want this fixed so i dont miss the beast hitting the 250k mark

im so jealous!

[ereeiz]

The ones Halfords sell aren't the correct ones (unless they've recently updated their stock). They cost about £1.50 from a VW dealer or about £0.70 from a Skoda dealer

From memory there's 3 in a mk3 Polo clock. Always worth buying a few spare. They last forever but you never know, next time round they may be obsolete!

[grayg40]

cool cheers for that. i wouldnt have thought of vw for them