I ordered some bulbs from a Jaguar dealer in the UK, as one of my climate control display bulbs has blown. Strange thing is, the bulbs I received appear to be blue.

Before I start dismantling the centre console, can anyone confirm this? Has the dealer sent me the right bulbs?

 

There's two different colours of bulb used in the Aircon Control Panel:



Seven Blue and two Green. As far as I can recall, the colour is a sleeve over the bulb and not coloured glass.

Graham

 

Thanks, Graham. The bulbs I have are JLM11965, n°2 in the diagram above. They appear to be clear bulbs with a blue sleeve on them. From the diagram, it would appear to be the correct bulb, but why blue when everything else in the dash is back lit green?

 

It's a while since I've done a bulb change on the Aircon but I remember even my local Jaguar Dealer (Stratstone) wasn't certain of the Blue/Green locations when I got them and there isn't a diagram in JTIS.

Mine had Blue except for the ones illuminating the Temperature Selection arrows in the centre which were green. I suspect it may not make a whole lot of difference.

I've got a DSC switch panel (the one below the Aircon) on my desk at the moment. It has six bulbs - five Blue and one White behind the Hazard switch.

Graham

 

Believe it or not the blue bulbs result in the green lighting. They are correct.

 

Great thanks I will go ahead and swap them out.

 

Steve beat me to it. Yellowish color temp filament bulb + blue 'condom' = green light.