Dash lights are too bright at night
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C Class W204 2013
Dash lights are too bright at night
Hello to everyone.
Model: W204 2013 CDI 220
Up to a week ago, the lights on the instrument panel behaved in an automatic way, i.e.: bright during the day and dim during the night.
Suddenly, they are bright all the time - i.e.: no dimming during the night, and it's annoying because they are too bright and interfere with the driving.
This doesn't seem to have affected the central panel (where the sound system main display is) - this changes to night mode during the night, as expected.
Is there a way to reset the system somehow, or perhaps a setting that may have changed to disable automatic dimming?
Thank you.
Model: W204 2013 CDI 220
Up to a week ago, the lights on the instrument panel behaved in an automatic way, i.e.: bright during the day and dim during the night.
Suddenly, they are bright all the time - i.e.: no dimming during the night, and it's annoying because they are too bright and interfere with the driving.
This doesn't seem to have affected the central panel (where the sound system main display is) - this changes to night mode during the night, as expected.
Is there a way to reset the system somehow, or perhaps a setting that may have changed to disable automatic dimming?
Thank you.
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Hello to everyone.
Model: W204 2013 CDI 220
Up to a week ago, the lights on the instrument panel behaved in an automatic way, i.e.: bright during the day and dim during the night.
Suddenly, they are bright all the time - i.e.: no dimming during the night, and it's annoying because they are too bright and interfere with the driving.
This doesn't seem to have affected the central panel (where the sound system main display is) - this changes to night mode during the night, as expected.
Is there a way to reset the system somehow, or perhaps a setting that may have changed to disable automatic dimming?
Thank you.
Model: W204 2013 CDI 220
Up to a week ago, the lights on the instrument panel behaved in an automatic way, i.e.: bright during the day and dim during the night.
Suddenly, they are bright all the time - i.e.: no dimming during the night, and it's annoying because they are too bright and interfere with the driving.
This doesn't seem to have affected the central panel (where the sound system main display is) - this changes to night mode during the night, as expected.
Is there a way to reset the system somehow, or perhaps a setting that may have changed to disable automatic dimming?
Thank you.
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C Class W204 2013
Thanks @whoover for your swift reply, I really appreciate that.
I don't recall ever touching the manual brightness control, however I will check in case it was turned all the way up (by one of the children, for example, who rarely but occasionally have access to the front seating), because the problem has indeed only affected the dash illumination, so that could be a plausible explanation.
In that case, I suppose that setting the brightness control to, say, half way, would resolve the problem.
Thanks again.
I don't recall ever touching the manual brightness control, however I will check in case it was turned all the way up (by one of the children, for example, who rarely but occasionally have access to the front seating), because the problem has indeed only affected the dash illumination, so that could be a plausible explanation.
In that case, I suppose that setting the brightness control to, say, half way, would resolve the problem.
Thanks again.
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In one of the menus you can set display to
Daytime
Nighttime
Auto
Should be on auto. That's also another option
Daytime
Nighttime
Auto
Should be on auto. That's also another option
