I have to take apart my dash trim for something unrelated in the near future. While doing research for this on the forum, I came across some old posts/threads referencing a light that should be inside of the shifter assembly that illuminates the end of the stalk. However, since the posts are so old, all of the instructions, photos, and etc are all gone. On top of this, it apparently hasn't worked on any of the cars I've owned, and I can't find any other photos to see what it should look like. Does anyone know about this? If so, any pictures and/or instructions on how to replace the bulb? What bulb type?
If you have the dash trim off to where you can see the shifter assembly, just take that out and turn it over in your hands. there will be a little round plastic socket thingy with skinny wires running to it that you can twist and pull out and there's an eety beety incandescent light bulb in it that probably has been burned out for about ten years now. There might be a little greenish plastic cap stretched onto it to make it that old-school "dash illumination" color. You can get it from Toyota. It just shines out from right near where the stalk sticks out. The shifter knob on the end of the stalk is transparent plastic inside, with a bit of it exposed around where the stalk screws in, so it captures the light there and conducts it to the letters and pattern on the face of the knob that you see. If you have that dash trim off, may as well change the eety beety light bulbs in the power button and the P button as well. They've probably all been burned out for years.
Good to know, any idea what bulb is used in them? I'd like to get everything ordered before tearing it apart. I assume it's a wedge base W5W or T10 or T5 or something. Weirdly, the Power and P button lights work fine, it's the shifter I've never seen working in any Prius I've owned.
It's a teeny weeny light like you've never seen before, and it comes from a Toyota dealership where you say "I need one of these, it's from the shifter of a 2005 Prius" and they look it up and say "here, it's this." There's probably a post here from me from around seven years ago with the part numbers, from when I changed those on a relative's gen 2 (they all had burned out), but I don't know how easy it would be to search that post up.
I went to a few Toyota parts places which had some part numbers, and they looked very much like T10 or W5W bulbs to me. I'll have to call up my local dealer to see if they're the right ones or not, or see if anyone would measure it with a pair of calipers for me. I did come across this Reddit post which shows T3 Neo Wedge bulbs. Are these the correct ones for the Park and Power button? In his last pic, the shifter bulb looks like a T10/W5W, which I just so happen to have a bag of.
Many times in other Toyota's it will be in buttons like the air conditioning button that turns blue or green it doesn't really matter those bulbs with the gray base that are twist in that can or cannot have a blue condom or a green condom or a yellow condom on them are available on other Toyotas when you're at the junkyard I used to get them and just keep them in a little container because they're in older vehicles they were used in lots of switches and they just carried over The base is usually gray and it twists You can see the wires on the base sticking through the base and flattened out on the other side so when you put it in the funny hole and twist it the wires touch the circuit board and therefore make a connection when something gets turned on per button is pushed or whatever so but I don't know the name of them the Toyota dealer will when you get to the Toyota dealer and tell them what you got going on he'll be like oh yeah and bring a bag of them out which is neither here nor there but that's generally how that will go could you buy them online probably so You could probably go on the Toyota site and look up the bulb and get a part number and convert that part number like on an osram Sylvania site to a real number and then there you go me I just go to the junkyard and snatch them out of switches they don't even want to charge you for them so just let you have the bulbs if you're an honest guy and walk through the line and say man I got these five little tiny bulbs maybe like you got to be kidding me
You can just pull the bulb out of the circular neo wedge base, at least on every other neo wedge bulb I've encountered. I have a stack of small T3 LED bulbs sitting in my desk drawer from rebuilding the gauge cluster on my Peugeot. So it looks like I don't have to order any for that. As for the shifter bulb, from what I found looking at parts diagrams, it appears to be 90981-11040... which is a standard T5/2721 bulb according to a Lexus forum. Already have a packet of LED's of those as well for another project
I had found Chapman's post some years back, and got the three bulbs - of course they are different - why would they use just one? Toyota #: 9001001039, 9098111040, 9001001061 (no, I don't know which number goes where) As mentioned, every Gen2 that I have seen has had the backlight on all 3 inoperative. Even if one was "good", I would replace all of them "because I was in there anyway". Whatever you have, can't hurt to see if they will fit. Can't imagine that any difference in wattage would be significant. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
You're going to have that piece of the chassis in your hand so I mean really you have everything in your hand that you can twist and take out and then hold the bulbs in your hand with their bases If anything looks like what you have tada and then while you have those that you just took out of the car see if the bulbs will pull off of those gray bases and please let me know I don't think so I thought in the switches the bulbs are built into the base and when you buy the bulb you get the gray base with it but I don't live at the Toyota anymore like I did in the '80s so I wouldn't know today usually they will throwaways and you couldn't find LEDs or anything to replace these You were getting incandescent bulbs I even think today you won't get LEDs with this type of base in colors and all that stuff everything but these actually
So I'm standing out here at the 08 with the shifter box sitting in my hand it's black The only ball I see is in the gray housing that has the detents for the shifter movement It's a peace marked ABS 932 left I guess that's left hand drive that's the cover that goes behind the shift knob It has a bulb in it I guess this is what you guys are calling a t10 wedge base with the green condom and it does pull out of the base because the base the base twists in You don't have to use a little screwdriver or anything like that screwed the base in like the gray bases in the switches so this lamp if this is the only one is very much unlike the ones built in the switches I took a picture of it but you know that nonsense doesn't post comfortably for me but all you do is just grab the gray cover with the shift knob off twist the wedge base withdraw it and there's your bulb those bulbs you can probably get pretty much anywhere they're made by koito or whatever that name is You know the one but I have the bulb right here in my hand and I'm looking at his little prism reflector and how all that works I don't know that there's any more in this housing I guess all the parts that max listed go in other places there's nothing coming down the metal stalk of the knob that would light the knob up per se which would be cool if this thing was hollow and you could shoot light up through the threaded stalk and into the my case the Gen 3 shift knob but I really have no interest in that so but some of the kids are probably rig that up directly
And the cord for that base and that bulb runs around back of the plastic housing and plugs onto a white main board holder and I don't see any other plugs or lamps on or near that board
