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i just bougth my first beretta its the 94 base model and i love it but cant stand the shift lite how do i disable that lil bastard

take the bulb out ?

Taking that bulb out will let the engine light come on, and the fan will constantly run.

Really ? just for taking the shift light bulb out ... wow that sux

Yes...when the engine light was on I thought its something worse than a broken bulb definitely.

That bulb is inside a check circuit with the fan relais and some other important things, therefore the ECM can not distinguish which one of these is broken.

Interesting, since I do have that bulb out in my 92, (because I have auto trans cluster in manual trans car and it light something different, can't remember what it was) no error codes.

i guess i will just ignore it then thanks guys.

Maybe he can give it a try...all my knowledge applies to Quad cars...

i never heard people get sick of the shiftlight, lol... alot of people i know still are amazed when they see my car got a stock shiftlight...

Put a black peice of tape over it thats my great idea. I just got use to mine whatever works for you though.

removing the shift light bulb can have the quad driver DTC pop up, but not all calibrations have it enabled. might as well try it.

remove bulb, paint bulb black, install bulb, re-install cluster... still works and you dont see it...

Nice looking car. I assume from your name you have the 2.2 four-cylinder? With that engine and the five-speed, you probably get as good or better MPG than most of the new cars in the dealer lots... I can't tell from the pic for certain, but it looks like someone put "Beretta GT" emblems on your doors. They look good, and the car looks very well kept. Congrats on your first Beretta, I warn you though, they can be addictive.

what about replacing the bulb with a resistor of equivalent resistance, or close to it?

would work just fine...

those bulbs are around .2 amps, maybe a little less? that's a little under 3 watts that the resistor would need to dissipate when at 14 volts.

you can go significantly lower though, the quad-driver's sensing circuit isn't that sensitive... could put in a ~200 ohm resistor for roughly 1 watt or ~400 ohm for 1/2 watt or ~800 ohm for 1/4 watt or ~1600 ohm for 1/8 watt.

i'm not sure i would go much below 1600...