trouble seeing guages/needles in 89 SHO

[SHO SUM]

Man..having one heck of a time seeing my guages at night, light controll is turned all the way up, and cant see the needles at all. Also cant see the clock readout at all. Question is are there brighter bulbs for the guages made? Also thought about coloring the needles with a highlighter or day-glo orange paint, any other ideas? Do ALOT of night driving and not knowing how fast your going SUCKS! Thanks again in advance!

 

[BlackOnBlackATX]

sounds like something may be wrong. its usually pretty obvious when a bulb is burned out. are yours just dim? perhaps buying new bulbs and taking the time to swap them all out may yield some better results. im not sure if there is anything brighter out there on the market though for that sort of thing. perhaps someone else knows.

 

[DJ SHO]

SOunds like burned out bulbs. If one goes out, it can take out a decent sized are on the cluster. I had one out behind my temp guage, so that was dim as ****, and also made the needle of the fuel gauge dimmer, and half of that guage was dim too. FWIW, my dad's 99 Taurus (a 3 year old car at the time) had liek 4 bulbs out in the cluster. What a pain in the **** trying to see that thing at night doh .