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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 04:36 PM
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The needles wont light up. All the other lights light up but hte needles. Anyway to fix it? without getting all new lights?
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 05:07 PM
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You can go here:

http://www.lextech.org/

send your cluster to get the needles redone...

I just bought a working cluster off ebay for about 75 bucks... took the needles out and swapped them into mine.

Keep in mind these needles are LED and not a plastic needle with a bulb in the back.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 05:09 PM
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they're burnt out. If you want them replaced go to lextech. And try searching for 'burnt needles' or something before some of the older member get annoyed
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by chanh55
You can go here:

http://www.lextech.org/

send your cluster to get the needles redone...

I just bought a working cluster off ebay for about 75 bucks... took the needles out and swapped them into mine.

Keep in mind these needles are LED and not a plastic needle with a bulb in the back.
How much would that cost

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they're burnt out. If you want them replaced go to lextech. And try searching for 'burnt needles' or something before some of the older member get annoyed
Thanks yea im new to this form sry guys.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 05:30 PM
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clicky da linky.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 06:11 PM
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http://lextech.org/osCommerce/popup_...3bddf901c7a416

is this jsut one set of needles?
how hard are the needles to take out?
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 06:17 PM
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You don't take them out. Why don't you write the lls guy's? (or at least read the FAQ) it'll speed up the process

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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by O. L. T.
You don't take them out. Why don't you write the lls guy's? (or at least read the FAQ) it'll speed up the process
OK will do thanks for the help

Edit BTW: I bought the car for 3,900 its a 92 SC400 with 144,000~ miles was that a good deal?
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 06:39 PM
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i wouldn't trust lextech anymore. i've sent my cluster to them 2 times and as of right now, i got two needles out, about 1/3 of the leds behind the cluster are out and about 1/3 of them are blinking which seems like they're about to go out too. on receiving my cluster the second time, one of the needles didn't even light up because they had the led poles reversed... and they told me that they test everything before they send it out... well needless to say i'm not going to them ever again.

edit : to help clarify the pole reversal... well i'm not electrically inclined as i had a friend with EE to test it. putting it on the board didn't work, no lights... nadda. we flipped the power wires, and voila it worked. so that's what i meant.

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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 06:45 PM
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Mine dont flicker or anything there gone dont light up anywhere. I jsut want ot know if there is some place that i can send my cluster to that can fix the needles. thats all.
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Old Jan 18, 2007 | 06:47 PM
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the poles can't be reversed. that's not even remotely accurate.
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