Factory Switch Bulb Replacement

[SatiricalHen]

I thought I saw someone saying something about the bulbs in the factory switches burning out or something, well I got a fog light switch in the mail today and it looked pretty close to the same idea as the 97+ switches I’ve taken apart to swap guts before. So I took it apart.

I’m sure you can take it apart more and I could’ve taken the switch and bezel out as one if I was just getting to the light, but it’s just a bulb with some leads soldered to it. I know for a fact I have LEDs laying around that would fit it well, and I might even have incandescent bulbs somewhere, but I just thought I’d share this little tid bit. Just in case someone was wondering, but hadn’t gone into tearing their own stuff apart yet.

 

 

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[Minuit]

That looks to me like a 5mm T1.75 wire lead bulb, but it might be a 3mm T1 bulb. Both were extremely common in electronics of the time and are still readily available in 12V versions. My experience is that they last for a very long time, but they do burn out eventually.