Re: '88 5ktq Dash Lights

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <josiah@gsinet.net>]

Sounds like maybe the dimmer is broken? Try replacing it from one from a
junkyard...  if it gets jiggled, maybe the contact breaks, making your dash
lights go out.
    -Josiah
    '84 GTI
    '86 Scirocco 8v
    '87 QSW
    http://www.gsinet.net/~josiah

Wolff wrote:

> On my "new" '88 5ktq the dash lights are intermittent. The cruise
> control display and lights on the abs switch and defroster switch are
> also intermittent. They will all go on and off randomly while the car is
> idling with the headlights on. Sometimes just the dash lights will go
> out, but usually all of them do, then they come back on. The stalk pod
> for the light switches was loose, but I have tightened it and still have
> the same problem. There is a button on the dash that says "lamp test".
> It does nothing. The rotory knob to the left of the lamp test button
> also does nothing. This is the dash lamp dimmer right? Any suggestions
> of where to start on this problem? Can I pull the "lamp test" assembly
> out without removing the entire dash?
> TIA,
> Wolff
> '91 200 tq
> '88 5ktq
> '87.5 coupe
> '86 4kq
> '84 4k LTD (just sold it)