Instrument panel

hey guys

how does the instrument panel come out on a 90 civic DX? It looks like there's a burnt light bulb behind it and I would like to change it.

Maybe if i take off the air vent above it I can reach down..?

Thanks
Joey

Are you talking about the guage cluster or the heater/AC controls?

If you're talking about the guage cluster, there should be 4 phillips screws holding the cover on, 2 on the bottom of the front, and two by the wind-shield under some beauty caps that you pop up with a flathead screw-driver. Once the cover is off, you can remove the guage cluster itself, I think it's another 4 screws in plain sight. Once the guage cluster is out (don't need to disconnect the wiring), you can see the light-bulb locations. You just have to twist the knobs to get the bulbs out, and then you can see how to replace them.

If you are talking about the heater/AC controls, I'm not really sure, I've heard that replacing the bulbs in there is a pain in the ass. But you remove the console bezel that goes around the heater controls and stereo. There should be 4 screws holding it in. Two at the top on either side (you'll have to open your glove box to see the one on the passenger side), and one on either side that are in plain sight. Once you remove that, you can see how to take off the heater/AC control panel, 2 screws in the front hold it on... beyond that I don't know, but you can probably figure it out.

Oh, and if you ARE talking about the heater/AC controls, removing the vent above it will not get you anywhere.

yah the heater controls etc. :(

I wonder if you can just pull the knobs off and pull it forward or something.

Thanks for the info :)

Joey

yeh the heater controls are not that hard i did it in 15-20 minutes i think. u sjust take the console out and there are two phillips screws holdong the control panel on, when u take those two screws out the heater should move, then u take ur knobs off and it should slide off. BTW if u rip all the blue crap on the bulbs it makes it ALOT brighter.;)

awesome thanks for the info.

I've got next week off of work so I think im going to go teg console hunting and replace the bulbs at the same time.

hey Joey have u called van ryns yet bout the clock? (think thats what u were lookin for)

naw, do you know what street they are on in grimsby?

I drove through a few times but didn't stumble upon it. I've got an ever-growing list of things I need to pick up too :)

lol
well didnt u get the PM i sent u awhile ago??
i gave u the address and phone number hehe

hmmm no it says that there are no new pms.

Maybe I was drunk or something :)

lol u crazy drunk ;) hehe
ok well one min, i'll grab the phonebook and get the info lol

alright here ya go

Van Ryn Auto Wrecking
205 Alway Rd Grimsby

Phone: 905-643-2557

:D
hope ur not 2 drunk 2 forget that ;)

also, there on Grimsby mountain (the escarpment) lol

ah i didnt know they were on the escartment. That's why I never saw them :)

Naw, not drunk yet but I copied the info down just incase ;)


how's your car coming along? any recent pics?

its goin alright,
i had some new pics of my interior up here lol, just some pics of my neon install and thats mainly all i've done, started working on my hatch again tho, its startin 2 look good all shaved :) next time its nice i'll take more pics, still got a small exhuast leak i need 2 fix lol but right now its small shit b4 i can get the car saftied :) need 2 fix the horn, get the speedo cable workin, and get new tires lol :D
so if its nice tommorow or sunday then i'll take some pics :)

yah I saw the neon light thread. I'd like to do something like that under both front seats.

anyhow time to go get some food. If I swing by the scappers tomorrow I'll let you know. I can pick you up or whatever.

alright
hopefully its early cuz i got plans for 12:30 with my friend lol :)

also, next week sometime i'll have some old pics i'm tossin up cuz i took a roll of film in yesterday from like december lol :D

back to the original thread, it's a pain in the ass to change the bulbs. I took off the console and the only way to get the heater panel out is to take the radio out and i'm not about to start that :)

ah well maybe when i install the teg console..

Since I'm off this week (had my CPR course on monday/turesday/wednesday) I decided to try to change the bulbs behind the instrument panel today (one bulb was burnt out)

It's really not that hard to do. First you have to take the console around the radio/heater panel off. Most of you probably know how to do this. If not, there are 4 screws holding it into place. 3 screws are pretty visable (one on the lower left, one on the upper left and one on the lower right) and you'll find the 4th one when you open the glove box.

Once you've taken the console part off (or unscrewed it and pushed it down a little) just unscrew the 2 screws holding the car radio/deck in place and lower the deck a little.

Next you'll find 3 screws holding the instrument panel onto the dash. Unscrew them and then lightly push the panel inwards and then push it down.

There are 2-3 clips holding the "face plate" on it. You should be able to pull on it a little and it should eventually snap off. Make sure you take the knobs off the front of it first.

My wires for the light bulbs were very short so there was hardly any room to move the panel around. There are 2 bulbs in it, one on the upper right corner of the panel and one on the lower left side.

If you give the little "bulb holders" a twist they should pop right out of the instrument panel. You should be able to just give the light bulbs a little tug and they should come straight out.

The bulb itself is really tiny. I went to the local car shop to get replacements and after looking it up in the computer they sold me the wrong size twice. I'm going to try another store or maybe a honda dealership this weekend.

okay so i went to 3 different canadian tire's and they dont have the bulbs. I ended up having to go to the honda dealership and it was $18 FOR 2 TINY F'IN BULBS. Oh well at least I'll have instrument panel lights now.

lol thats bad. I just ripped sum bulbs out of my old guage cluster and they were exactly the right size.

yah i went to the wreckers today and i should have just ripped them out of a panel there. ah well.

the guy at the dealership was like "that will be $18" and I just looked at him and was like "$18 for 2 tiny light bulbs....do I get a 50 year warranty with those or something" and he was like "uhmm no there isn't a 50 year warranty sir".

That was the first and last time i ever go to a dealership for something :)