Glove and luggage compartment lights
Interior lighting
The glove and luggage compartments may have
lights that come on automatically when they are
opened and go off when they are closed.
Instrument panel and switch light-
ing
Ambient (background) lighting
Depending on vehicle equipment, your vehicle may
have ambient lighting in the doors and footwells,
which comes on when the ignition and the head-
lights are switched on.
On appropriately equipped vehicles, you can adjust
the brightness of the ambient lighting in the Vehicle
settings menu in the Infotainment system → page 26,
Infotainment system operation and displays.
The interior and reading lights go out when
you lock the vehicle or a few minutes after
you remove the vehicle key from the ignition. This
helps to prevent unnecessary drain on the vehicle
battery.
Fig. 79 To the left of the steering wheel: Thumbwheel
to adjust instrument panel lighting 1 .
Instrument cluster and switch brightness
You can adjust the brightness of the instrument
cluster and switch lighting by turning the thumb-
wheel → fig. 79 1 .
On appropriately equipped vehicles, you can also ad-
system operation and displays.
The brightness of the instrument panel lighting
changes in response to a change in lighting around
the vehicle, for example, when driving through
a tunnel.
The instrument cluster lighting is on when the
lights are turned off and the ignition is on. As
the lighting around the vehicle fades, the instrument
cluster lighting will also fade and eventually turn off.
This is to remind the driver to turn on the low
beams.
Interior and reading lights
Rear interior lights on.
Press the button to turn the door contact
feature on and off. When the feature is
switched on, the interior lights come on au-
tomatically when the vehicle is unlocked or
a door is opened. The lights go out about
20 seconds after you close the doors; they al-
so go out when you lock the vehicle or switch
on the ignition.
Reading lights on or off.
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