I did the LED mod and think I fried the cluster and now the cluster won't light up. I think the wires were touching or something and it just turned off. I check the fueses but they were all fine. When i start the car, the miles and other lights come on, but when i turn the lights on, the numbers and needles dont light up....I think im goin to have to get some indeglow gauges and light up needles. what do you guys think?
THANKs....

 

dude, the same thing happened to me and just changing the gauge faces won't help, the problem is with the green board and there is no fix other than to replace it and in doing so your mileage is also going to go back to zero... I don't know much about the reverse glow or how they work (how they're lit up) but I do know that your green board is pooched... good luck bro

 

I am in the middle of changing my guage faces and for the speedometer Honda will ask you for a copy of your reg. I know because i have a TL-P and i want TL-S guages, i have the techometer and the fuel guages but not yet the speedometer.

 

You can't change the gauges. Many people trying to put on indiglo gauges pulled/moved the needles, which messes up the spring calibration. So you'll probably have to live with dead needles unless you wanna have gauges that are all off.

 

Maybe I can help; I did the mod last year (actually i chaged all dash illumination in the car to blue) and had the gauge cluster out many times. The basic LED mod in the dash just involves changing over to LEDs mounted to small wedges which insert into the original bulb sockets, unless, like me, you were adding even more LEDs by soldering directly on to circuit board. Can you explain what you mean when you said wires were touching?

 

I think the positive and negative ends of the LEDs touched somehow because i was trying to adjust it to where the LED would light up the part of the cluster evenly, so I heard something fry and I also smelled something burn. I think I'm going to need a whole new cluster or change the whole green plate on the back of the cluster.

 

lol!

 

some one is selling one on ebay for $100.00 plus $9.00 shipping.just do a search for Acura TL Instrument guages '99 -'03.hope this helps

 

Yeah that is a bit of a chuckle although I know its not really funny since its going to cost him some dough now. Well if you smelled something roasting you will have to replace the board. Bummer. When I was working on my cluster, I had in on my desk and I used a 12 volt power supply to light it up. That way the only circuit that was energized was the illumination circuit.

 

dyum sorry to hear that my cluster is also acting up too it lights up, butthe tach or speedo dont work so i'ma probly get another

 

fyi, the OEM part # for the green board in the TL-P = 78146-S0K-C03
the part # for the TL-S = 78146-S0K-C11