For some reason, over the past thousand miles or so, my odometer light seemed to become not so bright. even at night with the lights on its still quite difficult to read it. i remember at one point it being very easy and rather bright. any idea what might have happened? did a bulb just burn out back there? or something more

 

just go order the back light bulbs from mitsu, and take your cluster out and swap them.. its really easy and if not that then check fuzes and wires

 

Another thing if/when you do that look into replacing the cluster and dash lights with LEDs. Not only will everything be much brighter you can change the color. Search around on these forums on where to get the bulbs. They're cheap.