DIY: Climate Control Globe Change in 3rd Gen

[Lugo]

Now remove the four screws from the rear of the fascia of the climate unit, as shown below. Note the unit will not fall apart when these are removed, it is still clipped together.


Once the screws have been removed very carefully pry the black fascia off, from each of the four clips one clip at a time, the 2 on top and 2 below. Be careful to ensure the board behind the fascia remains on the unit itself, and does not come away with the fascia, as it is physically connected permanently to the unit.


Once that it removed carefully lift the front board up so you can see the underneath of the borad, without applying too much pressure to avoid damaged the wiring connected to the board from the unit.

Following that, locate the globe to be removed and twist it 1/4 turn to the left, then lift the globe out.



Then simply insert the new globe, make a 1/4 turn to the right to tighten it in place, then rebuild the unit following these steps in reverse.

Hope this makes its easier for anyone needing to do this than trial and error, I know I sure as hell would have preferred a guide.

Shouldn't take you any more than 15-20minutes or so to do the entire thing, took me half an hour, but I had to pull 2 units apart, my replacement globe was in my old climate control unit.

Have fun guys n gals!

[s_tim_ulate]

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[doddski]

great write up!

(shame its no use to me, but still great writeup)

question - if you wanted to change the colour of the backlighting, you could do it by following these steps to get it apart and replace?
out of curisity - how many backlighting LEDs are back there?

[Magnette]

those things are filament lightbulbs, not LEDs...?

[Boozer]

those things are filament lightbulbs, not LEDs...?

they are small lightbulbs, not LEDs, they are also the same ones you'll find behind your instrument cluster (P,R,N,D...etc) well at least they look the same...

[RoGuE_StreaK]

Looks like they are the same as the ones in the 2nd gen centre console (aircon, clock, etc...), which I've yet to find an LED replacement for; for that matter, in all my searching through lists of car bulbs, I've yet to see this globe type, so still don't know the code (same size as T5, but with trailing leads rather than wedge)

[Magnette]

its a mitsu parts desk special, hehe

i once soldered LED/s directly to that type of flexi contacts those bulbs screw into.
If you do it quick with a good iron on low heat, it don't screw up the flexi layer.
Used 5mm LEDs that had a inbuilt resistor and could be hooked direct to 12V.

was too lazy to visit the mitsu dealer, as that would mean having to
reassemble the dash just to drive there then redismantle to install.

[Madasacutsnake]

Lugo, love the write up, well done

Question - I am trying to determine how many of each globes are required. From your pics it seems there are 4 of the T5 Neo Wedge for the display and 9 T4 Neo Wedge for the controls. Does that sound correct?

The T4 globe,...are they simple twist in globes or do they need to be soldered in place?

Thanks heaps