Keeping the daylight GPS display

roll all the way up your panel light control located to your left side of steering wheel....

 

Honestly though, you need to be using the night time display. The daylight display is far too bright and it will affect your night vision.

Try playing with the brightness and contrast settings for the night display to get it to where you're comfortable with it.

 

There's an actual day-mode setting specifically for the GPS display. It will dim the display when you turn on the parking lights or headlights but it will maintain the same color theme. When the lights are on, press "display" and you'll see it. If the lights are off, the option disappears.

 

Even aftermarket GPS have day (light background) and night (dark background) mode. My garmin announces the change at sunrise and sunset it is not an option.

 

I often find I need to use my headlights when there is sufficient ambient light that I'd like to use the daytime illumination on the MFD. One of those times is when it's raining during daylight hours. Headlights should be on (believe it's in the CA vehicle code that they must be on if your wipers are on), but during the day, you want the daytime display of the MFD.

 

Press the display button on the side of the MFD. If your headlights are on, a button on the screen should appear marked "Day Mode". Press that and you are set.

There is another setting that allows you to adjust the brightness of the display, I think on the same screen.

 

Then just rotate the rheostat (the knob that dims the instrument panel illumination) up until it clicks and it'll automatically jump to day mode.

 

This is the situation where you should use the dimmer wheel in the full up position. This will brighten the speedometer display to the daylight setting, and cause the MFD to use the daylight setting.

If you want the MFD to display the daylight setting at night, use the daylight mode button on the MFD screen. This way the speedometer display dims as it should at night.

Tom

 

I do. Your post assumed the OP had his headlights on because it was dark. I was pointing out that there are conditions other than darkness where you want the headlights on, and under those conditions one might want the daytime display.