Actually the little bulbs that you have in the gauge do come in different

wattages. Usually in my experience the bulb in there is a 1.2 watt. You

can get a 2.2 watt bulb that will light up the gauge more. I think that

the bulb is made by Osram. I had one of these as the light in my foglight

switch. Don't use them for this function because it made the switch too

hot. I changed it to the 1.2 watt and its fine. The aftermarket VDO

gauges like the cockpit models matches the dash pretty well and they have

something like a 4 watt bulb in them. They are very bright. I installed

one of their boost gauges and it was too bright. VDO has available little

bulb condoms in different colors so I installed a green one and that was

just right.

Dave 82 242ti