Instrument Display Brightness: Lights On

I don't see this suggestion so far:

Do you have a dimmer switch next to your EV switch? If so, rotate it all the way up until it clicks. On the US model, this puts all the dashboard lights and MFD to their non-headlight brightness when the headlights are on. If I have mine clicked to the top with the headlights off, then turn the headlights on, I notice no difference other than the headlight indicator coming on.

 

Hello,
seems to me that I have the same controls as you do. Try to hold the dimmer button for a second or two, that does the trick for me. With lights on, pushing the button cycles through three levels of (already dimmed) brightness just on the speedometer. However, holding it down for a while changes both the speedometer and the MFD to the brightest setting, exactly the same like with the lights off.

Hope this works for you too. Have a nice day.

 

well whaddya know... it works!
Thanks, Martin! There you go, sidecar.

 

You are welcome. I googled this somewhere about two months ago and it was like a second Christmas to me. The only drawback is that it does not remember the brightest setting and resets itself back to the usual "dimm-dimmer-dimmest" when the car is turned off.

 

Was playing around with my nav display with lights on. I was able to switch to "Day" mode on the display with headlights on which gave me full day time brightness. I hit the Setup button and then the Display button in upper right to get to that adjustment.

 

The gen2 setup I believe is some what different to the gen3.

It was not the MFD display that was the problem the controls for this do not affect the speedo display that remains dim irrespective of the MFD settings when the lights are on.

It seems as the rest of the world apart from the American continent does not have the dimmer thumb wheel but I may be wrong.

The speedo lights are adjusted by using the miles/kilo button while the lights are on and even the operation of this seems to differ. This operation is not at all obvious and is very easy to miss in the manual and not listed in the index.