About 3 years ago, the lights on my console for the a/c and blower fan speeds burned out so I replaced them with new bulbs from a MB OEM supply place. I'm assuming the ones that burned out were the originals, which lasted 21 years.

The new ones I put in already burned out!! I don't know what brand they were, but how disappointing is that??? Good thing for me, I remember how to take the old ones out, and put the new ones in, but....who wants to go through all this work a 2nd time around? Unless there's something else going on that I don't know about (fuse or some way to turn those lights off/on), then I have to assume they burned out.

They were the original color ones too, not the blue tint ones.

Very disappointing.