StevieA

93 LS400. My lights are out behind the fuel tach speedo and temp guages only. I believe this happened when my battery ran low and we had to jump it. I think they went out during the surges in power.

Two pics showing the lights out. One as I turn the key and the other as the engine is running.

I have checked all fuses in the two locations under hood and under steering column.

Is this common? Did I short something out in the cluster?




Engine idle





Turn key

billydpowe

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do a search, covered many times

RA40

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The First gen FAQ has some reading about the dash cluster.
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls4...questions.html

StevieA

I did search. I made sure I did that before posting. For probably two hours. Searched LS400 forums for key words:
DASH
CLUSTER
LIGHTS
OUT

etc..

Every issue is different than mine

I've already had my cluster repaired a couple years ago when it was flickering especially when coldand the needles were losing illumination. This is not the same thing.

OK 0 with more reading now I see "NO BACKLIGHTING" actually is one of the common issues and I'm guessing capacitor related..........will continue searching to see

87phantom

Here you go: https://www.clublexus.com/forums/ls4...eedle-fix.html

For your model (93-94), there are 3 capacitors to replace as laid out on in the link.

StevieA

Ok

BBA-REMAN fixed my cluster a couple years ago.

Before I conclude that I need to fix the capacitors I thought it was uncommon that my back lighting went from working perfect to not working at all right around the time I was trying to jump my car with low battery.

I thought the back lighting capacitors typically failed slowly and we're temperature sensitive.

Just want to be sure I don't overlook something more obvious if it nay not be the capacitors. Can someone comment with their experience/thoughts thanks

RA40

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The search is turning up odd results currently. IB is working on several issues. For the time being, Google will yield more accurate search results. Sorry for that hiccup with the forum search.

timmy0tool

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if your cluster was reworked before, there could have been something that was disconnected or compromised during the jump start. next thing to do is open it up and start securing the cables and connectors.

TaninAuto

This is not related to the capacitor repair. We can fix this issue. Call or send us a message.