Shift Indicator Bulb Burnt! Thought they were LEDs, nope...
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Shift Indicator Bulb Burnt! Thought they were LEDs, nope...
Here is the part number:
BULB, POSITION INDICATOR LAMP 90981-11018
Noticed my shift indicators weren't lit driving home today. Tore the console up (for the 20th time) and discovered the bulb is a strange small size, and there is a separate part number for a little green rubber condom for the bulb itself.
I'm not exactly sure why the bulb has the green cover (other than to change the color of the light). I actually had a spare since I have both the old style and new style shift indicators, and both of them had the green covering. It's a single bulb with a clear plastic light spreader that is commonly used to light up larger areas with a single bulb or move the output of the light to another location in consumer devices.
So, people with the old shift indicators which seem to do a poor job of lighting up compared to the new style - the bulb is exactly the same between them and the same part number, so it's not the bulb. You might want to try just removing the condom... maybe it'll let more light through. I'd be interested to know how it actually changes the look of the shift indicators... I didn't experiment with it, I just wanted to put it back together.
Does anybody know off hand what kind of bulb that is? I'd be interested in actually finding a suitable SMT LED replacement. Since I just replaced the whole pigtail and put things back together and didn't discover the condom until later when I took the burnt one back in and plied it out I can't actually read the markings on the bulb (it's all burnt up inside).
I find it strange that it's a filament bulb when most of the rest of the interior is all LEDs.
I think these are the right size...
http://www.v-leds.com/Interior-LED/G...22390-1-2.html
BULB, POSITION INDICATOR LAMP 90981-11018
Noticed my shift indicators weren't lit driving home today. Tore the console up (for the 20th time) and discovered the bulb is a strange small size, and there is a separate part number for a little green rubber condom for the bulb itself.
I'm not exactly sure why the bulb has the green cover (other than to change the color of the light). I actually had a spare since I have both the old style and new style shift indicators, and both of them had the green covering. It's a single bulb with a clear plastic light spreader that is commonly used to light up larger areas with a single bulb or move the output of the light to another location in consumer devices.
So, people with the old shift indicators which seem to do a poor job of lighting up compared to the new style - the bulb is exactly the same between them and the same part number, so it's not the bulb. You might want to try just removing the condom... maybe it'll let more light through. I'd be interested to know how it actually changes the look of the shift indicators... I didn't experiment with it, I just wanted to put it back together.
Does anybody know off hand what kind of bulb that is? I'd be interested in actually finding a suitable SMT LED replacement. Since I just replaced the whole pigtail and put things back together and didn't discover the condom until later when I took the burnt one back in and plied it out I can't actually read the markings on the bulb (it's all burnt up inside).
I find it strange that it's a filament bulb when most of the rest of the interior is all LEDs.
I think these are the right size...
http://www.v-leds.com/Interior-LED/G...22390-1-2.html
Last edited by BinaryJay; 05-07-11 at 10:40 PM.
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