speedometor and tactometor lights out
 

i have speedometor and tactometor lights out and wondering how to fix them. also, lights on my dashboard are out. how can i fix them? if possible send me pictures on how to diassemble it and put it back together. also, what light bulbs i can use to make them brighter, if any. please send as soon as possible.

ummm,

year and model?

have you checked fuses?

Yeah - year and model would be a help with this ...

Brighter bulbs = more heat = more current. Maybe not a good idea ...

it is a 2001 saturn sc2

What makes you a saturnbadgirl, or are you just a wanna be pretender?

As I recall, the power for the instrument lighting comes from the parking lamp fuse(10A) located in the underhood fuse block. From there, it feeds to the Body Control Module (BCM), and is controlled by the dimmer knob located on the dash. A failed (open) dimmer will keep the lights off all the time while a shorted dimmer will have the lights at full brightness. Of course, it's always possible that the BCM is bad ....

I'd check the fuse first, then the dimmer, then make sure the dimmer is seeing voltage. Oh, also, make sure the dimmer is not set to minimum. If all these things are good, then I'd disassemble the dash, and start checking the lights ....

to sw2cam . what makes me a saturnbadgirl is that I can drive circles around you!!!!!!!!!!.

thank you ocean archer. for the info. i will check it out.

Talk is cheap and the cheap do alot of talking.

Well at least we have a resident BadGirl

Cool -- we've always needed a badgirl on this forum!

AND she wants to take care of her ride -- so give her a chance.....

Once she gets the dash lights solved, she'll be able to tell us how fast she's driving those circles and at what rpm -- even under cover of darkness (mysterious and all-- you know.....)

Any progress to report yet, Badgirl?

Who's holding the money on the bets for/against the race ?????

Unless she is coming to me to back up her statement ......... it's all talk. I was just wondering what made her a bad girl. Time will tell if she's bad enough to stick around the site.

i know its not a fuse, but i was wondering how to change the bulbs in the gage cluster? if possible send some pictures. thank you

to sw2cam-what kind of ride you got?

rides ............. she said rides

to sw2cam-what you got a couple of rides?

Have had 10 S-CARS, 4 IONs, 1 VUE, and thats just the SATURNS. Does that make me the saturnbadboy?

I think it makes you an honorary Saturn distributorship

Well I have you beat
11 S series
6 IONs
2 Vues
1 LW300

so bagboy bagboy what ya gonna do
what ya gonna do when they come for you

you must spend half your life at the dmv (unless you're stealing these vehicles, in which case you're spending half your life in parking lots).

Why are there always really stinky dredgy peeps at the dmv? What services could they possibly require? They clearly are not in a hurry to get back to their jobs -- which they clearly don't have.........

The lady at the dmv I go to in NJ has worked there for years -- she loves to yell directions at the people who don't speak a word of english and then get belligerent when they still don't follow her directions......sometimes I throw out my license just so I can get to visit this dmv to get a new one and watch the circus......

ummm I think it's "bad boys" not "bag boys" (????) [ WTF would that mean ]

I can sing it any way that I like, and I'm singing in a way that says he is not the badboy.

Indeed, Rj --
You can have anything you like
At Alice's Restaurant

I overlooked the subtlety of your lyrical implications.....quite clever indeed....

I mean you no ill will, brother.

So I guess now you're claimin the title of saturnbadboy around here?

to sw2cam-what makes you a saturn bad boy?

I do not believe I made or implied any such claims.

No ill will taken man .............. as long as the bagboy doesn't ban me I think we will be ok, and no I do not want to have the childish distinction.

childish

Sw2cam,

you kinda asked if you're the saturnbadboy ----

but no to your point, you did not stand up and declare to be so....
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Well
they say the sky's the limit
and to me that's really true

but
my friend
you have seen nothing

just wait 'til I get through -

Because I'm bad
I'm bad - come on

You know I'm bad
I'm bad - you know it!
You know I'm bad
I'm bad - come on

And the whole world has to answer right now

Just to tell you once again who's bad!

(Michael Jackson -- Bad)