Oil Change Indicator - Description

DESCRIPTION

A change oil indicator is standard equipment on all instrument clusters. However, on vehicles manufactured for export markets, this indicator is electronically disabled. This indicator is located within the odometer/trip odometer Vacuum Fluorescent Display (VFD) unit, or within the reconfigurable VFD unit if the vehicle is so equipped. In vehicles without a reconfigurable VFD unit, the change oil indicator consists of cycling textual CHANGE and OIL messages which appear in place of the odometer/trip odometer information in the odometer VFD unit. In vehicles with the optional reconfigurable VFD unit, the change oil indication consists of a textual OIL CHANGE REQUIRED message which appears within the reconfigurable VFD unit.

The odometer and the reconfigurable VFD units are soldered onto the cluster electronic circuit board, and are visible through a window with a smoked clear lens located on the lower edge of the tachometer gauge dial face (odometer display) or the speedometer gauge dial face (reconfigurable display) of the cluster overlay. The dark lens over the VFD units prevent them from being clearly visible when they are not illuminated. The change oil indicator textual messages appear in the same blue-green color and at the same lighting level as the odometer information when they are illuminated by the instrument cluster electronic circuit board.

The change oil indicator is serviced as a unit with the VFD unit in the instrument cluster.