[s-cars] In the dark, now sees the light!

[Franco Barber]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:58:16PM -0400, Rfeagleye at aol.com wrote:
> A quick search of the archives didn't tell me if there is a bulb in there
> that can be easily replaced, does anyone know anything on this?
>
> I like these cars, it is a like a quest for me to make everything work...
>
> Rob Eagleye
> 1993 S4

Rob,

These are my notes from just having replaced mine in April:

First, I used a putty knive to pry up the coin holder in the console
that has the diagram/switch/lights.  There were spring clips front
and back holding it in place.   Once those came loose, I tried to lift
it out.  It was stil held in place by what looked like two connectors
with really short wires.  I could lift the whole thing up about 1" max.

How to remove the connector towards the front was obvious.
The one towards the back wasn't.  So, I figured, let me get the
front one first.  Used a screwdriver to pry the tabs back and
pulled ... off it came.  Off came the one in back too!  Turns
out the one in back isn't so much a connector as a switch.

The whole lower body of the switch came off.  I couldn't figure
out how to separate the connector from the switch, so maybe it's
meant to come off that way.  This left the switch contacts and two
LEDs exposed and vulnerable.

Light bulb replaced.  Used radio shack 272-1154 bulb.
Not a perfect match, but closer (in terms of lamp resistance)
than the other one I had on hand (272-1029C).

Put it back together, and it worked!

Reassembled by plugging the switch in first, then the connector,
then testing my work, and then pushing the whole thing back into
place.

Hope this helps.

Franco



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