removing climate controls., the stickies arent much good since, well, only one of the five works.. Options

[3sgteLuke]

i say: i want to remove my climate controls to change the lights

you say: omfg this topic has been covered a million times cant you check the stickies!?

i say: they dont work anymore.

you say: sad face

so who can tell me how to remove the climate controls? i removed all of the screws but cant manage to disconect the "heater control switch lines" <--- [correct terminology?] there happen to be two of them and they are preventing me from removing the whole assembly. any suggestions?

also, if someone has a dash clock for sale i would definitely buy it... i shorted mine out and 3 of the four digits work now... dont ask..

[godsowndrunk_109]

I thought I would tag along on this post and hopefully someone is still watching it So I swapped in the Scion stereo which looked bad next to the green cluster gauges so I changed the color of those, and now the climate control looks pretty stupid next to everything else. You can see where I'm going here, one change leads to another leads to another....I've read several of the posts on the topic of changing the climate control colors and now feel mostly confident that I can do it. However, none of the topics asked the question that I have. I'm going to keep it simple at first and keep the individual button LEDS green or orange for now. I am hesitant to use LEDs for the backlights for two reasons; 1) light dispersion (I know there are ways around this) and 2) the inability to dim LEDS without reducing the life. Since the lights are original on the car (13 years old) I don't want to take them out, paint them only to find all of the stress from the process has broken one I figured I would take the next easiest route and just replace the bulbs with newer colored bulbs. I found the following online and thought it would be pretty easy to simply replace the three existing light assemblies. Unfortunately I don't know which (if any) might work. Can someone who has done this before or maybe someone who has their climate control sitting in pieces give me an idea which one to order. I prefer instant gratification and don't want to take the thing apart, measure it and then wait for the shipment

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