Charles Packer wrote:
The backlight on the LCD display of
our car radio has failed. I guess it's
the backlight -- I'm not even sure of
terminlogy. At any rate it allows you
to read the panel in the dark. When it
was working, its brightness was variable
and was controlled by the same pot
that varied the other dashboard lamps.
A search of newsgroup threads about
repairing such things suggests that
it's just an incandescent bulb or two
behind the panel that need(s) replacing.
Is there any reason to fear that the
backlight for this radio might be
more complicated and/or hard to obtain?

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Charles Packer
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You'd have to include a LOT more information for anyone to comment on
your specific problem.

One rather salient point is that on many cars, actually *getting the
radio out* of the dash is more complicated than actually repairing
it...not that the actual repair would be trivial to someone with no
prior experience. If you're expecting a socket on the outside of the
box, where you simply unscrew and screw in a replacement--like a fuse,
or the lightbulb in your closet--forget it.

Any car radio backlight is deeply embedded in radio itself, and not
conducive to user replacement.

jak