Any cluster guru's in here?

[jaychen]

My temperature gauge needle has been flickering bright/dim for the last few weeks until it just went to a constant dim, which is annoying because its now that dim that at night i can't tell what its readout is unless i look at it for a good 4 - 5 seconds.

My initial though was a poor contact from the plug - but i highly doubt that the temperature gauge has its own wire for lighting the two LED's responsible for illumination of it, i wiggled all of them and fiddled with the wires.. it made no difference.

I took apart the cluster.. I really have nfi what I'm doing or looking for when it comes to this stuff. All the solders look good around the LED's. I plugged it back into the car with the face off to get a really good look at it. When you squint and look very closely, they are actually flickering but at a really low level. No other LED's appear to be doing this.

Any help/input is appreciated.

[ianwpb]

My Oil temp needle is doing the same thing. It'll flicker, get dim, go out, or be perfectly fine. No telling when it's going to happen. I was just planning on getting a new cluster from Daz since my center screen is faded.

Let us know if you figure it out.

[xalents23]

Looks like you need to replace those LEDs. I had the same thing happen to my battery voltage LEDs.

[jaychen]

Looks like you need to replace those LEDs. I had the same thing happen to my battery voltage LEDs.

Did you replace yours?

Any idea what type of LED's these are or where to purchase them?

These look like the bad boys i need.

http://lighthouseleds.com/led-compon...-3528-smd.html

[xalents23]

Did you replace yours?

Any idea what type of LED's these are or where to purchase them?

These look like the bad boys i need.

http://lighthouseleds.com/led-compon...-3528-smd.html

Yes, I replaced my cluster LEDs but, don't remember what brand I bought. Been over 3 years since I fixed mine. But the LEDs are the PLCC-2 type. Worst case if they don't match you would just have to replace the rest with the same type.

[getslideways]

you could always buy a junk cluster and harvest the LEDs out of that if you were worried about mismatching with new ones