Display Brightness

[AlFischer]

I think I will have to discuss this with the dealer. What I am seeing is totally illogical and pretty much unacceptable. I 'THINK' it used to work normally. This appears to have started after my last visit to the dealer.

 

[pfd66]

With the lights set to Auto, they will dim out completely with headlights on, If you select Day, with the Night set to 10, the will still dim with headlights, but will remain brighter. Auto seems to be a Dimming level, not a selecting of automatically dimming.

So adjust your Night dimming level, and leave the selection on Day, and turn your headlights on and off, you will see the difference compared to Auto.

 

[AlFischer]

Interesting But NOT logical. I will go out and play with it again today.

 

[MattandLana]

The light sensor is the little dome in the middle of the dash, out front against the windscreen.

Lateral tip may or may not work for you: I want headlights on in daytime for safety, but have them auto off when I leave the car. All my other cars have had this feature for a decade so I'm afraid I'll forget to manually switch them off in this one. I found that a plastic coke bottle top just fits neatly over the dome, and stays in place with some double sided tape, and looks quite built-in. You can paint over the coke logo if you want. That way the car thinks it's always nighttime. I leave the headlight switch on "Auto" all the time - lights on when driving and off when I shut down, full auto. Only down side is I have to use the dimmer switch under the headlight switch to brighten the dash during the day as described in post #3 above - hardly a killer chore to roll it past the detent and back each morning/evening, in return for no risk of accidentally leaving headlights on when parking.

 

[AlFischer]

The light sensor is the little dome in the middle of the dash, out front against the windscreen.

Lateral tip may or may not work for you: .

What do you mean by 'Lateral tip' ??

What the headlights do isn't my proble. It's the brightness of the display. Both EVIC and the uConnect. If it is sunny and dims it cannot be seen.

 

[MattandLana]

What do you mean by 'Lateral tip' ?

Sorry, it was late and I was unclear. I meant: here is a tip, coming at the problem laterally (ie from the side, from a different direction). What you do with the headlights influences how your dash brightness behaves. So, messing with what the headlights do is a possible alternative way of solving your dash brightness problem.

Hope you've got it sorted now. Good luck.