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My family encountered a similar issue with something even simpler, console LEDs. Some of the LEDs that lit up the control console in our old Toyota Sienna blew
by scottLobster 9y ago
My family encountered a similar issue with something even simpler, console LEDs. Some of the LEDs that lit up the control console in our old Toyota Sienna blew out, so we asked a dealer how much it would be to fix. Turns out they'd have to take off the entire dashboard just to access the LEDs, several hours of labor and several hundred dollars. We could literally get a new set of tires for cheaper.
As it was we committed the control locations to muscle memory and just had dark controls at night until it died several years later. The fact that replacing a simple LED is so horrendously complicated is laughable.
- mark-r 9y agoMy 2007 Sienna has the same problem, a blown LED. Luckily it lights a part of the dash I don't need often. I don't understand how LEDs can blow out, they're solid state and should last nearly forever.
- scottLobster 9y agoProbably less the LEDs themselves and more the circuits powering them. Too much current can blow out an LED the same way it can blow out an incandescent. Solid state doesn't protect the diodes from heat damage.