One more stupid question

[dagenham]

The hvac controls are supposed to light up red like the gauge cluster, correct????
If so, are the bulbs red, or are there red diffusers inside like the cluster????

[JTurbo]

Yes they are supposed to light up. Bulbs are clear, just make sure if you need to replace you don't use ones that are too high of a wattage. Ask me what happens when you do....

JT

[Meotchh]

You could avoid the wattage or high heat problem that JT speaks of by switching to LED bulbs.

[dagenham]

You could avoid the wattage or high heat problem that JT speaks of by switching to LED bulbs.
Yeah, I was already considering doing that.
But what I really want to know is what color the hvac controls are supposed to be when lit, red or green?????????????
Mine light up green.

[JTurbo]

All 84-86 SVO's are Red, same as the dash lights.

[MikeFleming]

Mine light up green. It appears that your HVAC box is from a non-SVO model. Note Joe's comment below:


All 84-86 SVO's are Red, same as the dash lights.

[JTurbo]

Early 4-eye cars use green dash lights. 79 thru 82 I believe. I'm pretty sure the red dash lights started in the 83 model year.

Its not a terrible job to replace the hvac control module with the correct one. Just have to be careful because the plastic housings tend to get brittle with age.

JT

[dagenham]

Damn!
Well at least I found paint today for my needles, and maybe the hashes on the speedo that i just picked up.
I looks like Testors model paint has a discontinued color (of course) flourescent red seems to match an unfaded spot on on of my needles. I looked at different flourescent oranges but they did not seem to be anything close to a color match.