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The bulbs are not replaceable easily, they are soldered. Disassembly to even see it is a bit of a pain. Basically, unless you want to solder, buy a used gate. See pics of module:
The bulbs are not replaceable easily, they are soldered. Disassembly to even see it is a bit of a pain. Basically, unless you want to solder, buy a used gate. See pics of module:
Anthony I recently changed mine. Not too tough with a map .
Bulbs: need soldered bulb. Now once I got the bulb number for the soldered bulb in the sport switch. Let's say it is 1cm long. I had a few so planned to use in j gate. When disassembled I was surprised to see they were 0.5cm long (lengths relative not exact). I ignored that and used the longer one, he k the blue condom over the bulb fit fine. Ttytt it gets a bit too hot. Wish I'd used shorter bulb.
How to:
1 remove jgate surround.
2 remove center console
3 disconnect and remove sipped control and sports
4 unscrew j
5 disconnect j gate wire harness. Connector for 1998 is under front left corner of j gate.
6 disassemble j gate. Don't forget screw above " 2" on top of jgate
Have a radio shack desolder wick or a desoldering gun handy to remove bulb. Fine point, not much space.
Let me know if I can help more.
John
Circuit bored contains bulbs. Have desolder wick ready to remove old bulb. Solder gun with fine point.
J gate wire harness on bottom. Disconnect to remove jgate.
DSD, I just looked at my photo. I only see 2 incandescent bulbs. Wish it was a better photo, I'd have sworn there were 4. Nope just looked at photo, I must have a bad memory. Will look for any better photos.
Don't recall what the square yellow orange items are sorry.
I changed my bulbs a couple of years ago and it was an absolute nightmare, although things are first time round.
Anyway I've come back to this thread because I noticed tonight that where the P indicator is it isn't very bright and I haven't really noticed this before.
I couldn't remember how many bulbs are on the circuit board and looking at this thread I see there are two and I'm pretty sure both bulbs are working so it must just be a slightly dark patch on the P area.
Also if I was doing this jobs again first time round I would make sure you can obtain a spare J Gate circuit board just in case as it is very tricky, removing it and also removing the bulbs. I ended up resoldering without removing from the car and made a bad connection on the circuit board causing me to rewire one of the bulbs.
Also removing the J Gate surround is an absolute nightmare, you can break the clips and when it is removed there are two metal brackets on either side of the J-Gate. I didn't actually refit these as didn't think it was necessary as only makes the J-Gate surround more difficult to remove if you need to do it again.
Not a perfect fit but they worked. They are thinner and slightly longer than the originals with the wire leads about 1 mm closer together than ideal. I had to carefully bend outward the wire leads and they could not sit flush on the wafer board. I also had to glue the blue bulb condoms on since the bulbs are thinner. Lights up good on the bench and looks nice. Here’s pics with more detail including dimensions of both the bulbs I used and the radio shack ones I could not locate.
This shows the dimensions of the often-suggested Radio Shack Bulb that I could not find.