porshapower

Hello I am cleaning up the interior a little and adding a new shift boot on my 88. Noticed when I lifted off the little console cover(that houses the PRND shift indicator) that there is a location for 2 light bulbs but I only have one? There is a location by the "P" which has no bulb and there is a location by the "1" where I do have a bulb? Should there be w bulbs there? Thanks in advance for the help! Nel

Cliff Harris

I took my console top off recently and noticed the same thing. No bulb in the front location. It seems to have worked OK this way for 26 years so I guess I'll leave it alone.

I have been replacing my interior bulbs with LEDs, so that could happen here.

Joe C

my 85, 90, and 96 are configured the same way - one bulb.

Chewch87

One Bulb in my 87 as well.

SQUIRMIN VERMIN 84

Same here in my '84.....one bulb, two sockets. Someone at Bowling Green have a slow learning curve?

Maybe hired one of them Canadian ilegals......

oldalaskaman

I installed two in mine (splice) makes it nice and brite, but not to brite.

porshapower

Thank You Guys for the responses! I was ready to start tearing the car apart to look for this other bulb and wire harness I wonder what the malfunction was on that one..maybe they were trying to keep the weight down to make the car faster

porshapower

BTW...I like the splice idea...maybe if I ever come across another wire/bulb like this one I will do the same.

383vett

I retrofitted a 4l60e into my 84 which came with a 4+3. I assumed there were 2 bulbs in the cover and wired it accordingly.

Mr. Peabody

Naw it's just a spare socket in case you lose one.

85vet

I did the same thing when I installed the 700r4.

PLRX

Another thumbs up for 80s GM engineering

nutz4c4

Maybe this guy??

dukeallen

I heard he goes down to mehico now because it's easier to get over the border

nutz4c4

You know those felines are sneaky....Just gotta watch out for the Taco meat.......Oh the TMC...

RICEKILA

Pix's of missing bulbs

thomasbordercollie

mine has the one bulb, but a wire that could be used for the second socket. It had no bulb holder...?

Cliff Harris

GM probably used the same reflector/bulb combination on multiple cars and put in the option to have the bulb at the other end.

JoeUser

Mine's just bright enough with the one bulb. I imagine that if two were in there it would be obnoxiously bright (and probably distracting or annoying).

Joe C

- i also thought that the same part could be used in the RHD export by just rotating the assembly 180. i've never seen a RHD console though, and do not know exactly how the console is configured - if the indicator lens is on the right or left of the shift lever. also, it very well could be that during early c4 development, it was decided that one bulb/socket was sufficient. eliminating the additional bulb/socket from C4's over the life of the program, even if it was only $1 per unit, would have saved over $350K.