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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 07:38 AM
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New here, question about cluster lighting on a C36

Hello all, just picked up a 1996 C36 AMG, loving the car but I had one question. At night I would really like to see the "AMG" on the instrument cluster, light up. Wondering if they do normally and a bulb is just out on mine or if there is a mod that people have done perhaps to get it to light up like in the C43's.

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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 08:28 AM
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Congrats on purchasing one hell of a car! I also have a '96 C36 AMG and unfortunately no, the C36 clusters did not illuminate the AMG but they changed that in '98 with the C43 cluster. I always wanted the same thing aswell lol. Congrats on the Purchase and take great care of her and she will do the same to you. They're getting rare these days!
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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 08:48 AM
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It's may possible to put a km/mile dial from C43, isn't..?

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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 09:10 AM
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Thanks BenzMaster! yeah she's got higher K but I bought it off of the original owner and have all receipts for service .

I'm wondering that as well cm60k, what abought swapping in a C43 cluster completely? or are they different plugs etc?
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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 09:23 AM
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C43 cluster will fit perfectly, and all plugs & connectors are the same, the only problem with BAS/ESP or BAS/ABS light will shows-up, cause both having different BAS/ESP/ABS set-up,,

if you can get C43 cluster, you can just swapping the dials to your C36 cluster..

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Old Sep 16, 2014 | 01:10 PM
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5 or 6 bulbs are out in my cluster on my 97 C36. I tried accessing them without taking the wheel off but you can't get the middle ones.
I've seen some guys replace the bulbs with LED ones.
Anyone heard of this?
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I'm not sure if U.S version will accept LED's..!?!,

in Euro/Japan version you have to put Error Canbus LED's,,

http://www.autolumination.com/py24w.htm

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C43 cluster will fit perfectly, and all plugs & connectors are the same, the only problem with BAS/ESP or BAS/ABS light will shows-up, cause both having different BAS/ESP/ABS set-up,,

if you can get C43 cluster, you can just swapping the dials to your C36 cluster..

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Sweet thanks for the info Zayed!, now to find the dials! now if I just do the dials will the AMG light up or will i need to somehow wire in LED's to get it to work since i'm guessing that my cluster will not have a spot for the bulb that goes there on the C43. perhaps easier to just swap the C43 cluster and remove the BAS/ESP/ABS bulbs?
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Welcome Mate.,

Sure, you can swap the C43 cluster and pull-out BAS/ESP/ABS bulbs, i'm NOT prefer that, depend to you,,

you can also order the dials from Moman(Adam), they have brilliant quality illuminated dials for any AMG's:

http://moman.pl/eu/

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Old Sep 19, 2014 | 12:42 AM
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