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      04-06-2021, 01:59 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Qsilver7 View Post
Kind of. If you go into iDrive, you can select multiple color combinations. If your car has been unmolested (code wise)...then you have ORANGE, BLUE, and WHITE color selections. If the current color is ORANGE or BLUE...you can change the footwell (or lower) LED selection to WHITE. This should provide a bit more light...but honestly, the purpose of the ambient light option is to be subtle...but it appears that many owners prefer it to be less subtle since there are hundreds of threads about making it brighter. And then there’s the additional “coding” that brings in multiple (new) colors and combinations.

Again, the ambient lighting feature uses 3 different levels (upper/middle/lower) and you can select one color or different combinations of colors.
Multi-colour ambient lighting was never offered in the F-xx generation 6-series. It was orange or nothing. Coding for brightness is limited and there is no coding that can change the colour since the LED modules used for ambient lighting are are two-wire, single colour modules. On the 5 and 7 series where you can switch between white and orange lighting the modules use 3 wire connections and have switchable LEDs.

Check out my ambient lighting upgrade thread here.
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