Replaced the ribbon cable in my head-unit this afternoon. I bought the solder-in style from someone in Canada for about $25. Directions said 3 hours start to finish and that was fairly accurate. I finally have all of the pixels working again.

Hopefully this is a one time job; it's tedious to get the unit apart.

Had mine open too this week - got a couple of rows coming and going. Put a tiny amount of contact treatment into joints and it seems to have cured it for now. We'll see... :rolleyes:

BTW, be careful of the Pelican Parts description of how to remove the MID from the dash - it's very wrong. Thank goodness I always cross reference stuff I read on the 'net! :confused:

Yep. Mine was just a quarter turn of the tiny Torx T8 screw under the volume knob, while pulling on the volume shaft.

The instructions that came with mine were a bit marginal; I used the YouTube videos of some Russian guy from NY; he has a 3 part series.

Mine too - Torx T10 I think though.

Yeah, GuedesNY does a great video series on this task. :thumbup:

Part one is here.

Ordered on Jan 26th and showed up Feb 9th so not bad at all

Black roundel inserts (last night)

http://i.imgur.com/hvpkUPz.jpg?1

Cant tell what side got the new bulb so far can you?
the other side will get replaced later this week when it warms up again

ill guess the new bulb is in the first pic?

You got to love those salt images

I am just glad its been a warm and pretty much snowless winter for us.