I wondered if any of you has tried changing the instrument lighting colour to either red like a BMW or Audi or blue like a new VW? Should be very easy to do... just remove the bulbs and paint with a solvent based glass paint, which is available in any art and craft shop. I haven't done this to mine but I have coloured indicator bulbs orange to go behind the clear euro indicator lenses.

Don't change the instrument cluster light to blue, blue light is the absolute worst for night vision.

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Ali Al-Chalabi

2001 CLK55
1999 Dodge Ram 2500 Cummins Diesel
2002 Harley-Davidson Fatboy
Merlin Extralight w/ Campy Record

Yes, agreed. I have heard (I think from Larry Bible and others) that looking into the night after looking at blue lighting (IE instrument cluster), makes it very hard to see. I would just keep the lights the way they are... Mercedes knew what they were doing when the put the lights in!

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2006 E350 w/ 155k miles (Daily Driver)

Previous:
1993 300E 3.2L Sedan w/ close to about 300k miles
2003 E500 Brilliant Silver (Had 217k miles when totalled!)
1989 300E with 289,000 miles (had for <1 yr while in HI)
03 CLK 500 cabrio (Mom's)
2006 C230k (Dad's)
1999 S420 (Mom's/Dad's)
2000 C230k Sport sedans
2001 CLK320 Cabrio (Mom's)
1995 C280 My First Mercedes-Benz... (155k miles. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOMOBILE. Was Very hard to let go of!)

Yeah, I had tried several coloured bulbs before, and the blue and red were awful in the dark. What I found quite pleasing (IMO) though were orange coloured bulbs that are normally used for side indicators.

Still using them.

Interesting, that the new SL's cockpit gauges are illuminated with BLUE!!! The engineers must not read this forum.

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car