Re: Dashboard lighting - bulb out?
Originally Posted by dyezak
From the service manual for your pleasure:
1. Disconnect the negative battery cable.
2. Remove the steering wheel.
Refer to Page 19-25.
3. Remove the lower instrument panel cover (2).ZH
INSTRUMENT CLUSTER - SERVICE INFORMATION 8J - 834. Remove the instrument cluster bezel (1).
5. Remove the retaining screws from instrument cluster.
6. Move the instrument cluster toward the rear of the vehicle.
7. Unlock and disconnect the Instrument Cluster harness connectors
from the back of the instrument cluster.
8. Remove the instrument cluster from the vehicle
This is an FYI for anyone needing to service their own speedo cluster. You do NOT need to remove the steering wheel at all. You only need to remove the bottom half of the driver side dash (fuse cover also) and then remove the mid-section dash which includes the cluster garnish. This part is tricky but once you have unbolted the bottom dash and lower screws and tabs to mid section, you need to carefully pull down the top part of the cluster garnish to release the tabs that go behind a lip under the upper dash assembly. Having the steering wheel telescope positioned closest to the driver is a must. I just did this whole process myself in less than 2 hours and it wasn't hard. This can be done in less than half an hour if you have the manual, I just didn't know where all the tabs and screws were. There are about a dozen screws to remove in the whole process and that's about it.
Last edited by klamathpro; Apr 6, 2008 at 03:49 PM.