Electronic digital odometer hard to read (99 SL2)

Mar 11, 2008 3 Replies

This is my second Saturn, but the first with an electronic digital odometer. I don't like that too much: it's difficult to read in the daytime, except in full sunlight, and impossible at night. Turning up the instrument panel lighting has no effect. Is this thing *supposed* to be this hard to read??


My '01 lw300 has the electronic odometer and is rather easy to read both day and night. I think it is a backlit LCD though looks very much like an orange LED display.

Sounds like something in the backlight may have failed on yours.

You would hope it to be a simple bulb but the dash functions particularly are more and more, embedded LEDs. For that matter on many cars, I have spent close to an hour just trying to get access to a burried lamp to replace it. Not fun. Oppie

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