WelshCherokeeCRD wrote:
You're joking, right? You have a five-year-old vehicle and you're complaining about a LIGHT BULB? If you've never seen that in your life, I can't expect you to be older than what, 17 or 18? More to the point, if you leave your 1986 CJ-7 out in the weather with no top on it, that kind of tells us what kind of fanatic you are about vehicular maintenance.
If the UK models are the same as yours, you need to remove the grab handle, pry up the dash panel that has the grilles for the tweeters in it, and then you can access the screws. I may have missed a step or two.
Of course if you couldn't figure this out on your own, which I assume you couldn't from your post, I can't trust you're capable of such a drastic undertaking so I'd recommend having it towed to a garage at your earliest convenience so you can enjoy their substandard coffee and stale breakfast pastries from this past Wednesday.
Not to mention I'd recommend you learn how to either use spell check, or learn to spell ridiculous.
ok ok. I'm sorry. I will try to keep my posts more in line with people who have real problems. I will also try to spell my words more carefully. I have a degree in English and that mistake is an obvious example of my quick anger after coming in from a cold windy night working on my KJ. (My CJ 7 is a swamp machine with a Chevy 350 and most of it is water proofed save for the old dash lights... which still work) I have seen grammatical and usage mistakes far worse on this site I might add, including a complete lack of homophone awareness, but I have not yet pointed that out to anyone. I'm sorry to have wasted your time with my venting, and while I'm at it, I'm sorry that we spell many of our words without the "u" I don't get it either. Don’t get me started on aluminum. I think it was an attempt to shorten the time it took to set type or perhaps the origin was indeed a more malicious attempt to tell people from Great Britain to get bent, a statement which certainly seems appropriate in this case too.
Either way, thanks for the info on pulling the dash panel up. I WISH we could get breakfast pastries here, especially those little meat pies that I ate so often in London and during my time living in Australia. Even when they reach several days old they taste great. Here if you let a McDonald's sandwich fall to room temperature you might as well throw it away. We can certainly learn something from the way you guys make breakfast food. For example, I have never gotten tired of beans on toast. So simple, yet so filling.
You’re right that I have not owned very many cars. I’m 31, but I bought a Buick Century in high school that lasted until I purchased my 95 Subaru. I drove that one into the ground too and never had any major problems due to the standard maintenance I performed. All the lights worked. I did replace a fog light on the Subaru once because I cracked the lens on a snow bank on an old back road. Anyway, I donated the Subaru to charity and bought the CRD. Again, it runs fine. What I should have been more specific about with my complaint was a condemnation of DMC’s ability to put a quality product on the road. Let’s face it, it’s the little things that count right? That’s why BMW and Mercedes have been making so many good cars. It’s the attention to detail that really satisfies people. Therefore, the fact that I have a light out inside of my dash would indicate to me a lack of attention to those little things that make people so happy with their cars. I’ve said in other posts that my brother worked there and he was critical of Daimler’s desire to remove so much cost from the construction of the cars. Obviously labor costs were an important factor, but the non-essential products (like dash lights) were produced in countries with, dare I say it, less quality. I digress. As a tax-payer who has a vested interest in a company bailed out with public money, I question whether it was worth saving in the first place. Oh well, we can’t all drive Jags right? Well, I drove a 76 Jag for three months in Australia. Its lights worked too. It had an actual wooden dashboard. In fact, the only thing it ever needed was tune-ups and a new hood when my host family hit a kangaroo at 140 KPH. Wild stuff.
Anyway, I’m going to double check that the light is indeed out. There is something going on because I can’t see the three at all during night driving. I wonder if something is there blocking the light? Strange. I’ll figure it out. Thanks guys.
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Cheers though, this was what happened when I read it. 
). Admittedly, I my second pair were much brighter and burnt out quicker (they were nicer than stock though)...just like the packing said they would...