Lighting problem with on on-board computer

[turge]

The lighting on my on-board computer is very dim. You can't see whats on the screen at night and its hardly visible in the day time. Does anyone know of a way to fix this or will I have to get lucky at the j-yard?

Picture provided below:

[jlevie]

You need to replace the light board behind the display in the OBC

[reelizmpro]

or solder in replacement bulbs $2.49 each from radio shack
or do led conversion.

[HippyEarly]

i just fixed mine after dealing with it for a couple years. heres a like to pelican's write-up

http://www.pelicanparts.com/bmw/techarticles/JF-Tech/BMW_E30_3_Series_ODBC_light_replacement.htm

the part, to my knowledge, can still be bought from bmw. Not the whole obc just a white plastic piece with two bulbs on it. however i have replaced just the bulbs twice now with no ill effects. go to radio shack and pick up some bulbs and solder and a soldering iron.

the piece is this http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/...FiX%2C%20M3%20

and looks like
(hot linked from pelican, don't know how long that will last)

[turge]

Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the info. I'll make this a weekend project since I get payed this Friday. I might as well add on the Aux cable to my car's stereo while I am add it since I'll be working on that section of the car.

Anyways thanks again.

[Kershaw]

i did the LED conversion. just use ONE led....

[turge]

OBC Fixed :D

Just an update here. The OBC lighboard is fixed and is now using 2 red LEDs.

Here's some pictures:

[Kershaw]

that's 2 leds? mine was much brighter than that with 2...

looks good. nice job.

[nando]

that's 2 leds? mine was much brighter than that with 2...

looks good. nice job.

you must have used some really bright LEDs, mine looks stock with 2 of whatever I had lying around.

[turge]

I didn't use the high brightness ones since I would have needed a better resistor. Nevertheless I can see it clearly in day time and really well at night. Probably going to convert all of my other lights to LED as stuff starts burning out.