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1/3 of Radio display is dim
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:10 am
by Drivinthvibe
So driving home tonight i hit a bump and 1/3 of the radio display light went dim any idea's its from the left to jsut after the 5..
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:16 am
by 09vGT
Smack it.. really.. on the side.. One of my friends had a Grand Prix with the same radio and that would happen to hers.. So, you could just smack it.. and POOF it worked!
Re: (09vGT)
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:22 am
by Drivinthvibe
Ok will try that tomorrow, I have a Pioneer AVH-P3200DVD on order but I dont know when I will get a chance to install it ..
Re: (09vGT)
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:38 pm
by Drivinthvibe
ok i did it and now its all black no light at all..
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:48 pm
by hapagan
u gotta open it and change the bulbs inside. i think there is another thread or a DIY somewhere herein GV.
Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:52 pm
by Drivinthvibe
thanks you ..
Re: (Drivinthvibe)
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:23 am
by Drivinthvibe
Just ordered the bulbs .2162#2162 MINIATURE BULB WIRE TERMINAL BASE6$0.70
Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 2:45 am
by cptnsolo77
Sounds like my HVAC lights. I just tap on them & they come back on.
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:38 am
by Digger
I had one out and smacked it.... they all went out. That was 2 yrs ago. I did the surgery on it and now it is time to do it again. down to one bulb. NO, I am not going to mack it. Back then LEDs did not work in it. I wonder if anyone found a LED that works in the stock radio now?
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 11:20 am
by 09vGT
Lol I'm sorry my advice didn't work!.. That worked repeatedly for hers.. weird
Re: (Digger)
Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:23 pm
by joatmon
Quote, originally posted by Digger » I wonder if anyone found a LED that works in the stock radio now? I haven't been keeping up with LED technology, but I think of LEDs as binary. An incandescent bulb will be of varying brightness depending on the voltage you put across it, but an LED will be off completely until the votage gets up to a certain threshold, and then it will come on full bright. You can control the apparent brightness of an LED by switching it on and off too fast for the human eye to notice and it will appear to be brighter if its on more than off than it would appear to be if it was off more than on. However, I think the interior lighting control in the Vibe is just a variable resistor, putting a variable voltage on the interior lights and not a variable pulse width. My expectation is that if you put LEDs in there, they won't be variable brightness like the rest of the interior dash lights are