Name that part...

Brando · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 5:10 am

LOL, I gotta a lot of name that (something) games going on lately. Anywayz, I always wondered what this thing was. When you take the dash apart (the colored platic part, bottom half), there's that one wire harness that keeps you from pulling the thing out of the car (of course you can unplug but that just leaves one more thing to forget to plug back in), well, it leads to the cigarette light, but it also leads to something that looks like uhh....kinda like a test tube, with two wires going into it. It's kinda darkish colored, kinda looks like a long burnt out light bulb :laughing:

So what is it, a burnt out light bulb for say the ash tray, or something else? I don't see how it would be a light bulb since I don't see anything that would switch it on and off when opening and closing the tray...but maybe.

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86Delta · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 2:02 pm

actually it is a light. it goes on when you turn on the lights and is effected by the dimmer switch. there is a housing and a socket, comes out with a 1/4 turn. pretty sure it is a 194 bulb.

88delta88 · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 2:45 pm

Yes! I found that in my ash tray aswell. It did a poor job of illuminating the ash tray at night. I took all that stuff out of mine when I installed the computer. was a bitch trying to unclip that wiring harness from thedash!