Heater panel lights

[julesandtash]

Hi all,

Thanks to lots of help from the members here I have fixed all but one issue on the wife's car and scored a few brownie points along the way. I have even repaired the common soldering fault in the instrument pack.

The one issue left is the lights on the heater control panel. Around a year ago I replaced the panel as one of the switches failed and also the lights were playing up.

With a replacement (second hand) panel in place all was fine for a while but more and more the panel lights on it are not working. They sometimes work for a day or two then stop for a week or more.

It is only the panel illumination, all the other instrument lights in the car work.

I know that the lighting on the panel is LED not bulbs so unlikely to have blown.

I am guessing that it's likely to be a faulty earth connection or loose wiring connector but, knowing how much of a pain it was to change the panel last time, does anybody have any ideas before I start?

Cheers

Jules

[chicken_eyebrow]

Is it the full climate control or just the three dial aircon panel?

The three dial panel just has a bulb behind the centre dial. If it's the climate control then that has an LCD display and LEDs underneath the buttons but I wouldn't fancy pulling that apart and trying to solder/fix things, I'd probably try a car stereo specialist/electrician and see what they can do with it

[julesandtash]

It's just the three dial aircon one but I was sure that it has LEDs on it when I put it in - maybe my memory serves me wrong though. Just being a bulb would be great.