The bulbs are at the car parts store down on the corner. The Crank Position Sensor is in the same place, but behnid the counter. Most auto parts stores are on line these days, I use Kragen, Advance Auto - aka AutoZone - and my favorite, NAPA. NAPA does not have the best prices around, but if you need a part, they have a catalog that shows it.
The bulbs can be found by looking them up, or by removing them and matching them up.
I *think* they are the same. I have AutoZone in my neighborhood that has Advance Auto on some of its stuff hanging in the store, and Advance on the trucks that bring in more stuff. I could be wrong on that, but I was thinking that I saw on NASCAR that Advance and AutoZone are one and the same. I tend to have few too many beers while watching NASCAR on TV, so I could be confised.
Where would I look the bulbs up? I've looked all over the place and can't find a spec for the dash bulbs. I want to replace all of the bulbs at once, and I don't want to take the dash off to find the bulb type because then I won't have a way to go to pick up the replacements.
Ask as the parts counter. They'll look it up for you. My local AutoZone doesn't even have paper catalogs hanging in the electrical, filter or wiper sections, everything is one the computer.
-- "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with whips....r" R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days.
I got interested in this question and poked around a bit. AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) and Advance Auto (NYSE: AAP) are seperate, competing companies. AZ bills itself as the larger, AA as second largest. I agree, they do tend to stock their shelves with the same stuff, I suspect that it is "low-bidder syndrome" -- their car radio section confirm that thought. Here's an article on the growth of auto parts retailers in the US:
It's pedal to metal for auto parts - 2005-01-17 - Atlanta Business Chronicle
AutoZone (and perhaps others, I dunno) does do one thing that I think is pretty clever: They've got a contract with FedEx that uses them to move their stock around, instead of owning a dedicated fleet of trucks.
-- "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with whips....r" R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days.
Your talking about the dash lights for the gauges etc?.. I'll take a look at my spare cluster tomorrow to see if any of the bulbs still have their number.
should have one that you need.You can either get the one you need to hardwire in or the original one.I opted to go to my friendly neighborhood dealer and get one.IIRC it is part # 33004761 for the original cps 88 xj 4.0 auto$39 my discounted cost just about 4 months ago. later, dave AKA vwdoc1
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