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Old Feb 14, 2015 | 02:04 AM
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speedo light went out

I was driving home tonight from work when I noticed the left bulb on the speedo was out all the rest work fine so its hard to see anything under 50mph haha not like it matters because ill be going faster than that most of the time! Just kidding xD anyway can any of you walk through how to replace this blub im sure it cant be very difficult at all. THANKS!!!
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Old Feb 14, 2015 | 10:51 AM
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Re: speedo light went out

1st you have to remove the bezel and all the screws,the fog light bezel,it's more helpful if you remove the dash cover front screws also.Lower the tilt wheel all the way down,After you do that,you will see the screws that hold in the Cluster,remove them,then you pull out on the cluster(it's plugged in) just make sure you remove all the crews in the BEZEL.I'm showing the bezel to show you where the screws are.
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Old Feb 26, 2015 | 02:01 PM
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Re: speedo light went out

sorry for the late reply been working like a DOG. thanks for the tips sounds simple enough, just to be sure if one of these lights go out the others still work right? I ask this to be certain I have pin pointed this issue
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Old Feb 26, 2015 | 02:43 PM
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Re: speedo light went out

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sorry for the late reply been working like a DOG. thanks for the tips sounds simple enough, just to be sure if one of these lights go out the others still work right? I ask this to be certain I have pin pointed this issue
Yes.Don't know if you REMOVE a bulb,it might break the circuit.
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Old Feb 27, 2015 | 11:25 AM
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Re: speedo light went out

just to be sure if one of these lights go out the others still work right? I ask this to be certain I have pin pointed this issue

If you have a dead bulb,... yes.

If there is a problem with the cluster printed circuit than anything on the broken circuit will be effected. ( Example; if it's a broken ground circuit,... everything using that ground will fail. )

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Old Feb 27, 2015 | 08:16 PM
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awesome, thanks again!
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