Gaugle light bulb difference question

[stateofidleness]

Gents,
I recently had one of the aftermarket blue led gauge lights go out on me (actually it works, but the base/metal prongs on the aftermarket led bulb don't make a good connection with the cluster and thus don't light)...

I changed back to the stock bulbs, but I "borrowed" them from some of the dummy lights so I'm ordering some new ones to replace them.

I remember initially switching because I didn't like the "Deep" orange stock bulbs. I noticed the dummy lights that I borrowed from are more of a "tan" glow (like a very light orange, almost brownish).

Can someone tell me the difference in the two bulbs offered on Pelican other than the watts? One says black, one says beige, but I don't know what "color" the bulb will glow.

http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/smart/more_info.cgi?pn=999-631-302-90-M97&catalog_description=Bulb%20with%20Socket%20Base%20 %28Black%29%2C%2012V%20-%201.2W%20for%20Dashboard%20Instruments%2C%20Boxst er%2FBoxster%20S%20%281997-00%29%2C%20Each

http://www.pelicanparts.com/cgi-bin/smart/more_info.cgi?pn=999-631-303-90-M97&catalog_description=Bulb%20with%20Socket%20Base%20 %28Beige%29%2C%2012V%20-%201.5W%20for%20Dashboard%20Instruments%2C%20Boxst er%2FBoxster%20S%20%281997-00%29%2C%20Each

Thoughts?

[Keith Newby]

It's been a while since I replaced the instrument bulbs in my 986 but I believe you need both the black and biege based bulbs. The biege is 1.5w and the black 1.2w. Sorry, but I forget which ones go where. As for color, my instruments light up to a light gold. Stock bulbs will put you back to the original illumination color.