Light Bulbs

["Kevin Elmore" <elmorekevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the small light bulbs burned out behind the A/C panel of my '86 735i. 
  I pulled the whole thing apart, and got out the light bulb.  I noted that 
it was a .6 watt 12 volt light bulb.  SO I went over to the dealer, and 
asked for a replacement.  There, I found out that they no longer sold .6 
watt bulbs, but only 1.2 watt bulbs, which were meant to be the 
replacements.  I bought the $1 bulb and put it in my dash, and to my 
surprise, yeh right, it was brighter than all the ther ones...twice as 
bright.  Great.  Now I have the A/C selector switch brighter than everything 
else, and, loving the car the way I do, want to make everything the way it's 
supposed to be, right?  Does anyone know of some .6 watt bulbs I could get 
for the replacements?  Maybe I could get about 10 of them and put in all of 
them, but that seems crazy.  Could I hook up a resistor to lessen the 
current going to the bulb?
Why can't they just keep making .6 watt bulbs???; it would make life so much 
easier.

Kevin Elmore
1986 e23 735i
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