You must have a second gen... the first gen suffers from amber backlighting straight out of the 1980's.
Yep, 2011 (it is in my member description on the left). So glad it is not amber.... blech.
You could use a bit of dark window tint to take the edge out of the indicator light brightness. It goes on easy, you can make it look really nice, and will leave it transparent enough to still function as an indicator
Yeah, but I fear nothing would really look all that good without it being done behind the clear plastic. And I am unwilling to do that right now. Good idea, though. I think a perfect compromise would be a MOSTLY opaque, dark, circular piece of "cling vinyl" to stick on the outside of the dash, right over the lamp. Remember "Colorforms?" Something like that. No adhesive residue, easy to remove for cleaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorforms