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dose anyones aftermarket dial's fade or not light up?
i had my dials put on 1/2 a year now but today the dials just died.. i donno y that happend... but during the past week they have been slowly fading.. i dont know the problem can anyone help me out? coz i now have to drive guessing the speed at night hehe

which after market ones r they?

wouldnt it just be the globes behind the dials or maybe the wire supply to the globes?

i dont know what brand they are but they are stuck over the stock ones..
anyway, the seam to work now but sometime get relly dim and cut out.
once the cut out the dont come back till the next day... i dont get it
but yeah.. do u think its the batterly? or the subwoofer? coz i dims sometimes when i put my woofer high.

i think its normal for your lights to dim when u turn up the sub, coz the amps will be using more and more power...

maybe its your battery, does it take longer or harder to ignite the engine in the morning? or maybe the connections to the back of the lights are loose?

yeah myabee they are loose .. how do i get them connected properly?
well yeah.. maybee it is the battery hehee , in the morning my car turns on as normal but dosnt sound verry healthy hehehe but thats another problem hehehe... >_< thats y i diddnt drive to the cruse and came in the evo hehe:P

Doesnt sound like the actual bulbs...perhaps the connection, but that is unlikely since the turn and slot in and if they were loose they would probably drop right off and it should be more of an off/on problem not dimming.. You can easily remove the dials and open them up but I would more think it is the battery or other power related problem, although you should also be seeing other signs of that as well...

If you remove the stock dials behind it should also brighten it up as well.

Are we talking about dials which are lit by the bulbs behind the dash or EL dials which light up themselves when electricity is passed through them?

thecook wrote:i think its normal for your lights to dim when u turn up the sub, coz the amps will be using more and more power...

maybe its your battery, does it take longer or harder to ignite the engine in the morning? or maybe the connections to the back of the lights are loose?

If you running high power audio gear, then yes your light with dim or "jump", all you have to do is get a capacitor, it holds & feed the voltage/charge to your amp properly when you need it (Pumping out heaps of bass or just mega loud). So it won’t or shouldn’t affect other electronics. What size cap its depends on your system.

Ohhh my short definition for a "Cap" for all you I.T geeks is "UPS"

yeah im talking about the ones that dont have a light bulb.. i think as i dont think there will be enough room behind it.. it is so anoying cutting out and coming back and then dimming then normal... so unpredictable... my drive is like a light show .. anyway... so u think that a compaciter would fix it? how do i install one ?