I30 2000. It seems the "fluorescent" dash lights are not as bright during the day as they once were. Has anyone else notice this? Are there bulbs behind the dash that go out?

 

you've read my mind ma man i noticed it this morning and i also have the same model and same color just as you, but then i thaught mayb its because of the crazy cold weather we are having today at new york. are your 9006 eurolites are nice and bright and get a lot of light to the road?

 

Ya, the eurolites were brighter than stock until they melted the headlight harness!! Now I'm back to stock bulbs.

Getting back to the dash cluster lights, mine seems especially dim on the left (gas gauge) side. How about yours??

 

I noticed that mine are not as bright when I first start up the car when its cold but they return to normal in less than a minute.

 

Get an I35 cluster with low milage and you'll be fine

 

y did it melt? The temp of the bulb way higher than stock? Anyway mine the whole cluster is a LOL dim but its not that noticable like my mom didn't notice it, it wasonly me but no big deal 1 more year and I'm getting a manual sport car.

 

Today the weather was in the 50's and the dash lights were fine. Must be the cold making them dim.

 

i did notice the same thing on mine too

 

The cold kills my car. The windows take longer to go up, the windshield sprayers don't work, the steering wheel audio buttons don't work until they are heated, the list goes on and on.

 

Do you notice they do funny things in the cold like when you hit the volume up button, the channel changes?

 

Or when you stop and a red light, don't touch anything, and the channel changes?

 

Haven't seen that one yet.

 

You are correct. In general, I guess fluorescent lights do not operate as brightly in cold weather. I don't know exactly why, but I Googled info about fluorescent lights and it lists this as one of their drawbacks.

 

it happens.. over time bulbs lose their brightness unless they are led

 

yeah cold weather makes our cars crazy few days ago when it was crazy cold my automatic climate control would turn off the fan i have to put it on manual mode and once the inside got warmed up it was all fine and i was smiling cus lux cars are wierd. lol