Brightness Wheel Switch Doesn't Work

Deleted User 1286 · Post by **Deleted User 1286** » Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:05 pm

I've noticed that the wheel switch right next to the power tailgate button which is supposed to let us adjust the brightness level of the instrument screen/display doesn't do anything. Anyone else have the same issue?

pjm007 · Post by **pjm007** » Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:44 pm

Do you have all the other Settings set correctly? This is a very complex area.

Deleted User 1286 · Post by **Deleted User 1286** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:19 am

Thanks for the reply but this really doesn't address my question/issue. When the car is running, if I try to adjust the brightness of the instrument panel, it doesn't do anything. The brightness level doesn't change at all.

Tommo · Post by **Tommo** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 12:08 pm

I think I read somewhere that the dash illumination is altered automatically dependent on the ambient light inside the car to give optimum view of the dash

morrishey · Post by **morrishey** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 1:19 pm

Does anything else change when you rotate the knob (switch backlights etc)? I would expect that the instrument cluster screen is automatically adjusted as Tommo says.

MrParkson · Post by **MrParkson** » Mon Jun 25, 2018 2:28 pm

jagstyles wrote: ↑Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:05 pm I've noticed that the wheel switch right next to the power tailgate button which is supposed to let us adjust the brightness level of the instrument screen/display doesn't do anything. Anyone else have the same issue?

I've noticed a similar glitch with mine but only a couple of times, I've experienced all the displays being very dim when starting the car, I've then tried to adjust them using that roller switch but nothing has changed, only when I've turn the car off and on again I regain use of that switch, which definitely does increase/decrease the brightness, hoping it's an easily fixed software glitch rather than anything else in my case...

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:44 am

jagstyles wrote: ↑Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:05 pm I've noticed that the wheel switch right next to the power tailgate button which is supposed to let us adjust the brightness level of the instrument screen/display doesn't do anything. Anyone else have the same issue?

What time of the day are you trying to use it?

Try at night (darkness) and see if it works then?

Deleted User 1240 · Post by **Deleted User 1240** » Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:37 pm

Yeah, mine only has an effect at night when the lights come on.
Can't say I've ever felt the need to adjust it during the day.

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » Wed Jun 27, 2018 4:18 pm

pp67 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 27, 2018 3:37 pm Yeah, mine only has an effect at night when the lights come on.
Can't say I've ever felt the need to adjust it during the day.

Yeah agree.. As Tommo said think there is a ambient sensor and so the brightness wheel has no impact in pretty much most daylight hours. Might be a legal requirement that driver display needs to be bright enough in daylight to be seen. You can't therefore dim below that level.

Deleted User 1286 · Post by **Deleted User 1286** » Wed Jun 27, 2018 7:50 pm

Confirmed here, brightness wheel switch only works when it's dark.

Brightness Wheel Switch Doesn't Work

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