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Old Feb 4, 2013 | 09:35 PM
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I've pulled my air bags and module but haven't got the car back together just yet. I know my light is going to kick on as soon as I start the car so while I've got it torn apart what do I need to do to disable the light? I've took my gauge cluster apart but the light looks to be part of the circuit board so I didn't mess with it. Is there a wire or something I can cut to kill it? Thanks
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Old Feb 5, 2013 | 01:07 PM
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I've pulled my air bags and module but haven't got the car back together just yet. I know my light is going to kick on as soon as I start the car so while I've got it torn apart what do I need to do to disable the light? I've took my gauge cluster apart but the light looks to be part of the circuit board so I didn't mess with it. Is there a wire or something I can cut to kill it? Thanks
The light will remain on since the module is no longer communicating on the class 2 line.
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Old Feb 5, 2013 | 01:54 PM
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Pull the cluster and pop the led off the board.... My ABS, air bag, and brake lights are all removed from the cluster.
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Old Feb 9, 2013 | 12:23 PM
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Did your service vehicle light come on after you popped the LED off? Mine came on so I removed it to. No problems now just curious.
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 11:13 AM
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No.. My ses light functions normally.
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Old Feb 10, 2013 | 02:00 PM
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Originally Posted by SPEEDYws6
Pull the cluster and pop the led off the board.... My ABS, air bag, and brake lights are all removed from the cluster.
will this work for a 2000 camaro also?? all my lights are on even the engine light lol
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Old Feb 11, 2013 | 08:53 AM
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It actually wasn't the SES light that came on it was the Service Vehicle right under the high beam indicator. Its weird.
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Old Feb 11, 2013 | 11:16 PM
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I've heard of people putting a resistor inside of the connector that the air bags were connected too. This way it thinks its still hooked up and the light wont come on in the dash.
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Old Feb 11, 2013 | 11:50 PM
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Unsolder the light bulb.

Here is the step by step of what I did to get rid of the trouble lights I did not not need.













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Old Feb 20, 2013 | 07:37 PM
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Did the mods removed the above mentioned led bulbs, but when I installed the cluster my low oil light now illuminates along with the check guages light. Where could I have gone wrong??
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Old Feb 20, 2013 | 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by VandykeT/A
It actually wasn't the SES light that came on it was the Service Vehicle right under the high beam indicator. Its weird.
Service vehicle indicates electrical fault.

I had an o2 sensor wire get burned and short. Took me a while to find it so I just turned the code off to get it inspected. Once I turned the sea light off the service vehicle light came on and stayed on until I found the short and fixed it.

The least labor intensive way would be to wire in a resistor. The warning light comes on because the circuit is not within spec I guess you'd say. It needs to see certain voltages or level or resistance
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Old Jun 12, 2013 | 11:28 PM
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does anybody know which led bulbs go to the "low oil and check guages"
after i removed my abs,engine light,brake light, something went wrong and no have therse others on. thanks
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Old Jun 13, 2013 | 06:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bigbrdf250
does anybody know which led bulbs go to the "low oil and check guages"
after i removed my abs,engine light,brake light, something went wrong and no have therse others on. thanks
If you look at the black gauge cluster face, you can almost see which bulb is for what warning label. There's only a handful of them, so just match it up.

Instead of taking the bulbs out, I took some heat shrink tubing and placed it over the bulb. Once I 'shrunk' the tubing, it stayed on and you couldn't see any lights. I did it for a few of them.
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