well the other day i parked my car and when i went to get back in my car i started it up and all of the lights on the stock gauges came on exept the fuel gauge, coolant temp gauge, and the little thing that says lancer. But my speedo and tach work fine. Whats wrong here and how can i fix this? BTW this is on my 2003 VIII. Thanks guys..

-nick

 

have you checked you fuses?

 

I checked the fuse inside the cabin thats for the gauges, is there any other fuse i should check? Everything else lights up fine expet those 3 items.

-nick

 

Same thing is wrong with my gauges as well. The speedometer and half of the tach light up, but everything else is out

 

There are normal bulbs in the cluster that just burn out. I think they are 194 bulbs. I just put my white face gauges in and I saw the bulbs.

 

time to upgrade to leds
http://www.lightrikz.com/misc.htm

 

If you've checked all the fuses, take the gauge cluster out, its not that hard. Any bulbs with black deposits around the base are out.

 

Thanks for the site. Looks like good stuff

 

Actually the bulbs are not burned out, last night the lights came back on, but when i shut it off and got back in my car they were out again. WTF IS GOING ON? thanks for the help guys...

-nick

 

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/sh...ghlight=condom

I would also just change the bulbs, doing so, you also make sure there's no connectivity issues.

 

oh yeah.....good stuff Jake

 

I'm having almost the same exact problem with mine, they kind of flicker sometimes, there super dim and hard to read the tach at night. I thought there might have been a short in the dimmer dial, but it seems fine. the problem seems to be only with the light bulb thats rigt in the middle of the cluster.

 

You guys should get these gauges. You wont have to worry about bulbs burning out

 

Ok i fixed the problem, the bulb was just loose i guess. I also took the bulb condoms off and the cluster is 10x brighter now, looks 100% better.

-nick