Lost my orange glow!!

[Madness]

The other day I was driving to work and noticed I had lost "part" of the illumination from the radio. The parts that are not lighting up include:"CD/PLAY", "TREBLE", and the "bottom half" of the 1-6 radio preset buttons (the prev,next,rom, rev, and fwd). Does anybody have any idea why only some of the buttons are out? :th_scratchhead:

The car is an 03 GT.

The radio works fine, and is not a big deal to me that they don't work. But, I do miss the orange glow!!

 

[03GTPLE]

not sure, but my 1&2 are out.... (not the PREV/NEXT on the CD though....) as with you, not a big deal, but would be nice to know what the fix is.... provided it's not replacing the radio

 

[Pepino]

My clock keeps going off and coming back on about 1/2 hr later. Never noticed if the other lights are going off... now something else I need to fix/replace.

 

[The Guz]

Sounds like the light bulbs are out.

 

[03GTPLE]

so.... how do you replace them??

 

[Bio248]

take apart the radio and solder in new light bulbs.

 

[Madness]

Bulbsssssssssssssss?, yikes!!

How many are in the factory radio? I did a search and found a few posts. The radio sounds fairly easy to pull.

Sounds like a good project to work on the next time I am visiting friends in the Platteville area.

Has anyone done this recently or have any hints?

 

[iceman977th]

Bulbsssssssssssssss?, yikes!!

How many are in the factory radio? I did a search and found a few posts. The radio sounds fairly easy to pull.

Sounds like a good project to work on the next time I am visiting friends in the Platteville area.

Has anyone done this recently or have any hints?

Removing the radio? Take out the cigarette ash holder, unscrew & remove the bottom trim panel on drivers side, pull the top part off (above instrument panel) remove fog light switch, put car in lowest gear & put on parking brake, pull dash off, remove screws, and remove stereo. Easy as that.

 

[Rice01]

there is an excellent write up on how to change the bulbs on here someplace, i found it last night and replaced my bulb for my clock today using it and it worked like a charm
here is the link to the write up i used http://www.backinblackgp.com/Radio_Lamp_repair.htm

 

[Odi]

Hit it. Seriously, when i got my car my clock was out. So i punched the radion. And then pressed on the clock screen. Works ever since, 2nd year now.