Bulb In Little Storage Compartment?

[thegoat54]

Anyone know which bulb is in the little compartment thats right underneith the temperature controls? I wanna replace it with a blue one.


thanks

[ImSoBored]

If you've got a bottle of blue touch up paint, just paint it with a lite coat.

[2fst4u]

don't paint it, they get too hot and smell really bad. put in 3 leds. it will work a lot better. just drill a hole the same size as the led, and slip it in. 3 of them in series will give the right resistance to 12V

[Cyber Knight]

It's not one you can just pull out and replace as easily as other bulbs. You have to remove the front panel around the head unit and take that whole centre piece out to get at it. LED is the way to go to replace that, I used just one and a resistor.

[PlainOldOlds]

I put in a red one (incandescant) I ordered online w/ my LED dome lights. I may switch to a LED if it ever burns out. I agree on the paint... painting a bulb with regular paint will smell bad when hot, and wrinkle and flake off after a short amount of time.

Its a little bulb. I don't have time to pull the trim off right now to make sure, but I believe it's a #74... have someone confirm that before you buy anything.

[ImSoBored]

k there is where you're both wrong, Ive painted mine bout two years ago, no smell, no flaking or fading. Looks the same as the day I painted it.

[PlainOldOlds]

I suppose it will all depend on what paint you use. I have used Testors candy apple red transparent rattlecan (Heat = stinkbomb, at least for a few weeks.. stays on well enough though.) and I forget the other brand that I used on a bulb in the past, it was a brush on. (Didn't stink as bad, but flaked off in a month.)

Do you remember what you used that worked?

Either way, bulbs that are commercially prepared with high temp paint are cheap enough online, that it would probably cost about the same after shipping to buy a few than to buy clear bulbs locally, and the paint to do it right.

Granted, the paint could probably do 100 bulbs... but how often does a #74 bulb burn out? Those little suckers last forever, which is why they are so popular for those hard to get to locations like idiot lights and our deeply buried cubby hole light... 5 would probably last the life of the car, maybe as low as 2... I think I paid 75 cents each for mine online, less than an auto parts store would want for clears ones to paint! :)

[2fst4u]

i used high temp paint for the brake calipers. it smelled like crap. i'd like to know some good paint, too