Interior lighting

thiscarlife · 06-17-2018, 02:12 AM

Hi, after coming back from a road trip and driving at night, I noticed that the interior is too dark especially on the footwells. I did realize that we have lights on the door panels and also on the pillars but even those ones are very dim.

Would anyone know if there are options to do coding and make them brighter or even replace the LEDs?

Also, I noticed that there are no lights on the footwell to the point where I can't even see my own shoes when driving at night. Any way to do something about this? I think I saw some parts from BMS for footwell lighting retrofit.

thedza · 06-17-2018, 07:46 AM

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Originally Posted by thiscarlife

Hi, after coming back from a road trip and driving at night, I noticed that the interior is too dark especially on the footwells. I did realize that we have lights on the door panels and also on the pillars but even those ones are very dim.

Would anyone know if there are options to do coding and make them brighter or even replace the LEDs?

Also, I noticed that there are no lights on the footwell to the point where I can't even see my own shoes when driving at night. Any way to do something about this? I think I saw some parts from BMS for footwell lighting retrofit.

maybe a dumb question, but have you set them to the max brightness setting? I can't remember off the top of my head if this is a little turn knob thing near the lights or within the nav screen options. Coding allows you to have different settings for the different lights but I don't think it can do anything for brightness in general

thiscarlife · 06-17-2018, 04:55 PM

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Originally Posted by thedza

maybe a dumb question, but have you set them to the max brightness setting? I can't remember off the top of my head if this is a little turn knob thing near the lights or within the nav screen options. Coding allows you to have different settings for the different lights but I don't think it can do anything for brightness in general

Yes I actually just realized the brightness scroll for the instrument cluster also controls the ambient lighting brightness. unfortunately i've always had it on maximum all this time and it's still too dim

I've already ordered these. should be a fun little project

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/5-in-1-R...5bf4%7Ciid%3A1

upstate650 · 06-18-2018, 09:16 AM

In the US, ambient lighting color and brightness is in Idrive somewhere.

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