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Today I was in the process of changing out the stock bulbs in the odometer/cluster to the LED lights sold on ebay. It took a few couple of hours trying to get the **** thing to light up. After putting in a few bulbs, a couple wouldn't turn on. I'd reverse that bulb, then the other 2 wouldn't turn on etc. It was PITA trying to get it to work. Then finally when it seemed like I was almost done, I couldn't get one of the bottom three digital gauges to light up. Upon disconnecting the socket, I found a mini light bulb had fell out of the socket and trapped inside the white box and was inaccessible. Therefore I tried to remove the box from the circuit board to free the bulb held on by 4 torx screws... then it was all over, the ribbon cable had ripped off the circuit board.

So is there a way to reattach or solder this back on? Anybody with an extra cluster?

From this experience, I recommend against anybody wanting to modify their cluster with LED lights. I've found for some reason, the LED socket by itself fits into the cluster light bulb hole, but with the LED in the socket the clearance is not enough making installation difficult.

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