radio. Light burned out:

[Custom88]

Are the backlights for the face of the radio replaceable? I had a light burnout that lights up the Traffic, P-Type, Info, and AM/FM buttons. If they're not, or not easily, I'll just have the dealer replace the radio under the extended warranty. What a waste. buy a new $900 cd player just for a burned out light.

[JimW]

Think it happened when you pulled the headunit?, maybe you jarred a few things around.

There MUST be a way to take of the stock HU's faceplate and replace a few LED's or whatever in there

[Custom88]

JimW said:

Think it happened when you pulled the headunit?, maybe you jarred a few things around.

There MUST be a way to take of the stock HU's faceplate and replace a few LED's or whatever in there

It was otu before. i was just too lazy to think about replacing it. lol. If it's anything like a lot of GM radios the lights are soldered in and you'd have to solder in new ones.

[JimW]

Thank you to the General

[Aurora40]

I'm sure you can replace them. But a dealer won't. It's a single item to GM, non-servicable. I believe it is cheaper overall for them to do this than to pay the labor on it.

[mal]

While I've got a Classic, I just noticed this same issue on my Bose when I replaced it a couple of months ago (for a bad CD unit). New (used from ebay) and old both had about 6 burned out LEDs each.

The LEDs are soldered onto a circuit board. They aren't "normally" replaceable. Since I had 2 units, I unsoldered the dead ones from my replacement unit and did the same with a similar number of good ones from my old unit. I then soldered them back into place on the replacement unit. They all work fine now. I'm not sure how many folks are comfortable enough with a soldering iron to do it (without overheating anything), but it can be done.

Since I had a second matching unit I had a source of replacement LEDs. Without some kind of specs, I'm not sure what a decent source of matching (especially covered in an opaque blue) LEDs might be...

Al