I discovered, after I purchased the car, the LED is the gauge cluster have some problems in the earlier models such as my 2004 SL. Unfortunately, I didn't take many pictures of the process as I did this work before decided to create this blog/website thing.
Below you will see three pictures. The before picture is the one showing the ABS error (It was fixed before I took delivery of the car).This is only readable in the dark with the headlights on. In daylight, they are impossible to read. The second picture is the LEDs removed. The damage you see is how they looked in the dash. And the last picture is the final product with the new LEDs installed.
If you click the 'Find out more" button below, it will take you to Tanin Auto's website where you can purchase the LED set for ~$280.00. I'm not affiliated with these folks and found them via a Google search.
Finally, I've included the two youtube video's I found to help with this project. The first is from Tanin themselves (a must watch so you know which side is up for the display and things like removing a protective film), and the second video is where I strayed from the Tanin video as I chose to not break the display cluster down as far as Tanin (I pried the gauges open just enough to remove and replace the LED's like in the second video.
Scare score 8-10 ($280 worth of glass LED's and boatload of clips that could break)
Actual Project difficulty: 3 out of 10
In summary, you need to go very very very slow. I walked away a few times to avoid rushing. Total project time was about an hour and a half.
And zero broken clips!
