When I istalled the 5 watt bulbs in my gauge cluster, I did it with the intention of keeping them turned down a bit but at a bit brighter than I would have had with the rheostat at full brightness with the 3 watt bulbs. I'm going to try to keep aware of any odd smells or thin wisps of smoke coming form the cluster though. So far so good and its nice to look at a brighter cluster. I also cleaned the prisms in the cluster as well. Its easy to do. There's a good tip on how to do it at Boostnbenz's site.

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84 300D Turbodiesel 190K with 4 speed manual sold in 03/2012