Dashboard lights too bright

[Umai Naa!!]

Thats what I thought too. Because one of the few things that had to be done on my Jap import Silvia to get it registered in Oz was the addition of a light dimmer. Although that was 18 years ago now I would have thought the law was still the same.

Unless you can adjust the brightness with a compatible OBD scanner? Not sure that would be a sufficient-enough loophole to not require a dimmer, though.

[brenno]

Dashboard lights too bright

The dashboard lights dim automatically. There is a sensor on the dash monitoring light levels. If you cover it with your fingers you should see the range of the dimming.

The light sensor on your car may be defective. Does the light dim noticeably when there is a sudden change of light, for instance, driving into a tunnel?

[steveyoshi]

I thought so yes... I was driving late the other night and thought it was a bit too bright and I was not even on the highway, got a bit tiring too quickly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the ability to dim the instruments is an ADR requirement.

Shirley there has to be some way to dim them.

[steveyoshi]

Where is the sensor? Suppose I could consult the manual... especially coming into the darker months.

The dashboard lights dim automatically. There is a sensor on the dash monitoring light levels. If you cover it with your fingers you should see the range of the dimming.

The light sensor on your car may be defective. Does the light dim noticeably when there is a sudden change of light, for instance, driving into a tunnel?

[brenno]

I just had another look again and can't find the sensor....oops. Must have been something else that had a visible sensor.

If you shine a torch at the guage cluster at night I can definitely see the Maxidot and the Swing display change brightness. It looks like the guages do too, but to a lesser extent.

[Difinity]

I haven't found a way yet. The issue is too much brightness at night, on a country road (Hume & Federal H/way). I have always run it at minimum anyway - my eyes are very sensitive to glare...