Burnt out backlight bulb on A/C controls

canman · 07-27-2005, 04:36 PM

My Titan is a little over 1 year old and about 20k and I just noticed that the backlight bulb behind the controls for A/C (the three knobs) is burned out. The backlight for the stereo and other stuff is fine and the little bulbs for the A/C on (inside the knob) and the recirc button (again inside the knob) still work.

Has anyone seen this before? How hard are they to replace? I have to take my Titan to the dealer to install my new chromed OEM rims (long story, I will post later) and he said that he would cover under warranty, but I am not sure he fully understood what I was talking about so I need to talk to a real technician. What do you guys think, should it be under warranty?

baseballfanz · 07-27-2005, 04:43 PM

Should be under warranty if only have 20K miles on it.

drags1998 · 07-27-2005, 04:45 PM

Before you freek out and think that your the only one, Your not!!!!! NOW, try this, Just ajust the brightness of your dash lites and your heater control lites will be back!!!!! I know you dont think this will work, BUT TRY IT!!!!!! Let us know!!!!

canman · 07-27-2005, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by drags1998

Before you freek out and think that your the only one, Your not!!!!! NOW, try this, Just ajust the brightness of your dash lites and your heater control lites will be back!!!!! I know you dont think this will work, BUT TRY IT!!!!!! Let us know!!!!

Alright, now I feel like a complete jack@*#. How/why did that work? All other lights were already on and the brightness was not all the way down, but I cycled it and it worked like a charm. Go figure.

Thanks, drags, I will shut up and try not to ask stupid questions anymore.

drags1998 · 07-27-2005, 05:04 PM

The ONLY dumb question is the ONE that is not asked!!!!!!! Glad I could help!!!!!

QWIKWHIP · 07-28-2005, 06:10 AM

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Originally Posted by canman

Alright, now I feel like a complete jack@*#. How/why did that work? All other lights were already on and the brightness was not all the way down, but I cycled it and it worked like a charm. Go figure.

Thanks, drags, I will shut up and try not to ask stupid questions anymore.

There are many of us with that problem and Nissan isn't brite enough to figure out a fix yet so I just deal with it for now.

warrenm · 09-28-2006, 09:20 AM

I am sure glad I did a search b/c I was about to pull the dash and change out a bulb. It does not take much adjustment towards dim for the AC control lights to go off...

Shane06fl · 10-02-2006, 06:04 PM

And I know drags had a $hit eat'n grin on his face as he typed that.

Warren I keep my dimmer down low and every time some one new gets in my truck at night they ask the same question.