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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 05:34 AM
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i have looked thru ALOT of the threads in here but i cant find anything on why the speedo and tach needls are flashing.are they hard to replace?
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 09:52 AM
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REALLY? You looked through a lot of threads and couldn't find anything?

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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 11:09 AM
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LOL that's awesome!
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 11:48 AM
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classic...is the search function really that misleading and difficult to understand? And are people really limited to understanding the purpose of "key-words" and how they work when searching? Makes me very surprised that the people posting these threads were even able to find ClubLexus.com using yahoo/google.
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 12:04 PM
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Just to help the poor bastard out, here's the deal. Our gauge needles use a series of small surface mount LEDs. While LEDs last a LONG time they don't last forever. Especially these little buggers. What's happening is they are overloading and flash/burning out. If you reduce your gauge cluster brightness it will help out just slightly, but eventually they will burn out. The best solution is to replace them. http://lextech.org/osCommerce/index....8102cc394cfda4

Any other questions can be answered by researching the above mentioned threads
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by ishootstuf
REALLY? You looked through a lot of threads and couldn't find anything?

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hahahaah
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 12:08 PM
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the "Let me google that for you" is awesome!
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 01:22 PM
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ok ,all are so funny !! 6 posts and only one was any help. the other 5 were *******s about it.

Last edited by jjsvmax; Jul 10, 2010 at 01:27 PM.
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Old Jul 10, 2010 | 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by jjsvmax
ok ,all are so funny !! 6 posts and only one was any help. the other 5 were *******s about it.
No, just ishootstuf
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 10:59 AM
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im new to the forum too but when i made my first post and everyone told me to use the search i didnt get all butthurt about it
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 11:04 AM
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Yea I have 1 needle just started to blink too. I might buy those needles.
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 11:09 AM
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the search function is always helpful but sometimes u cant always find what your looking for when your being really specific with something.
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 11:25 AM
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sorry man I dont know how to replace the needles but I do know that it is quite common for them to burn out with these vehicles.

Dont worry about them --when they go im sure it wont be too costly to fix

sorry i couldnt help more

how many miles are on your car by the way
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Old Sep 11, 2010 | 11:38 AM
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LOL hilarious. Searching is definitely not hard and ignorance is not an excuse. On another note, I have to replace my needles too thanks for eating the flames so my life is a bit easier
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