Good afternoon everyone, I encountered a problem with poor illumination of the upper part of the speedometer. If anything, all the backlight bulbs are new, all have normal contact, I'm attaching a photo.

Other Felicia owners will know better than I.

My quick thoughts -

Was it darker there too before you changed the bulbs? Could just be how they are because of lighting mileometer and tripmeter.

Perhaps the bulb(s) are not sitting correctly, or there could be muck on them, did you put your fingers on the glass part, could be muck on or around the dial gauge.

Reflector might be dirty or tarnished or depleted with age.

Is one or more bulbs bright in themselves than others?

Did you check the bulb and holders had clean contacts, perhaps sprayed with electric contact cleaner if no visible crud?

Modern made bulbs are often poorly made, paying more for better quality often saves time, hassles and money.

That's me out of ideas.

Thanks, maybe this week I'll take it off and disassemble it to find out exactly what the reason is.

Did you accidentally touch the upper part of the bulb with bear hands?

Those bulbs were from a quality brand or bulk?

5 hours ago, nta16 said:

perhaps sprayed with electric contact cleaner

Plus this above.

too bad

6 hours ago, Camera said:

Thanks, maybe this week I'll take it off and disassemble it to find out exactly what the reason is.

Fair enough but that might be about as good as it gets if bulb and connector and position and location of bulb, are all good.

Let us know how you get on.

Not identical but looks much better, what did you done?