CactusCat

Why are you apologizing for the pic from the Galaxy S3? Photo quality on the S3 is amazingly good. However, glad to see you're not shy about digging into things, but that's a bit rough.

FLZapped

Those are 240 ohm resistors, not caps.

-Bruce

tstar

Yes I know... Did you copy and paste that out of context? It looks like I was trying to explain to someone that I've never seen capacitors that were black and marked with a rating.

Tim

nativefl

Any ideas, I put all new bulbs in the climate control. they light up nice and bright. The issue, they will not dim with the dimmer switch and will not go out after a period of time, like the other lights in the car.

reath1

Just finished doing the "fix" on this. Works great. About 1.5 hours start to finish. Changed my blinker relay while I was in there with the console pulled. Also worked like a champ. Was going to send the hvac controller to the ebay guy to fix. Glad I didn't. Now I have $50 extra to spend on bling...which we all know doesn't go very far.

redazz

repaired the hvac display on my 99 this weekend. using the pictures and instructions from this thread makes it simple.
thanks
John

nnicholas

I am going to fix mine this coming weekend. I did fixed my door lock issue by installing a new relay in the relay box that is inside the door panel this past weekend. Thanks to the information from the forumI was able to accomplish this task...

Bill McCassey

I performed the repair this weekend and the display is now perfect.
I did find that I had to clamp the resistors down then solder them.
I attempted to solder the first one with out the clamp and it came right off the board after very little heat. I used a small clamp and I put a small cloth on the back side of the board so the clamp would not damage anything.

I did forget to let it self calibrate so I Had to disconnect it, plug it back in, and then let it do it's thing, then it worked perfect.

Thanks again for this thread.

mike2c5

this may be an old thread, but it is still a good one. i just did this fix on my 98 c5. it worked great. thanks for the info.

nnicholas

I fixed my HVAC dim dark display and works great. I followed the instructions in the thread and it just took 45 minutes.

Mark Markel

Fixed Thanks to all who helped with this fix. Took about 2 hours to get to and remove board. Resoldered surface components, worked good since.

Roger Willingham

WhoHoo.... Fixed my '04 tonight.... About 30 min total...

I was thinking it may have been a ground problem untill I found this thread...

rielcrazy

Sweet fix! Just did this AND replaced all the burntout bulbs on the board. The bulbs were 2 bucks apeice at radio shack 50 milliamps 12 volt. I think i used 14? looks like new!

FLZapped

No, but you did. I copied the entire posting text.

sereneDelusions

Like so many before me, I finally got the console removed and this done. Had a few slide on me a little while soldering...but it works great now. Thanks!!

plad99FRC

Add me to the list of success stories. Had one move on me during soldering but i got it lined up pretty close and we are back to full brightness. Never soldered before and dont really plan on doing it again unless the display fades again

Thanks!

miami993c297

Done, working as new, and thank you...

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Christian

PNW Vett

I am going to try this...

Tired of guessing and I have only had the car a few days! Thanks for this tip! -Glenn

nnicholas

Believe me it works. A tip.... is to put a little weight on the capacitors to keep them from slipping when you solder them. Just touch up the solder joints and you should be good to go.

ericstanley

Awesome write-up. A huge thank you!! Worked great. Bonus: not only it is fixed, I got to break out my soldering iron that I haven't touched in a good 8-10 years. I was surprised that I even had solder around let alone remember how (but I guess it's like a bike... you just don't forget how).

Anyway, thank you!!