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| MCS & Cobra 427 | Ambient Lighting ?? Hi All, Just picked up my new MCS and have got to grips with most of the things via the manual. The one thing that is eluding me is this ambient lighting. There is reference to it in the manual but nothing understandable. I have located the two mini-LEDs in the overhead panel (the switch changes the colours on the 2 small LEDs from orange to purple) but I've read that other parts of the interior should also light up (eg door panels, footwells) - is this still the case ? In which case, is there something I should be doing to switch this on ? So far all I have on the ambient lighting side are the two small LEDs above in the roof panel and some minor lighting behind the airbag signs. Thanks Dave |
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Offline | It's a bit hard to see during the day, but just wait til it gets dark and you'll quickly spot it. As far as I can remember, in addition to the two LEDs by the rear-view mirror, there's an LED cluster at the back of the door pulls/struts as OJM mentions, as well as one inside the door release on each side. I leave mine set to blue, but I've noticed that it makes things a bit brighter than other colours (just down to the nature of the hue, i think) - the orange blends in a bit more with the dash lights, but for some reason I find it distracting. |
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| Away with the Fairies Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blackburn Local Time: 02:47 AM
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Offline | To change the colour just keep moving the switch,from memory towards screen ends up with blue, away from screen ends orange. the lights are as stated above but the lighting is not that obvious, it really is just 'ambient' but amazes small children ![]() |
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| MINI2 Regular Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: nr Boston, MA Local Time: 09:47 PM
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Offline | And there is also a light over the door bins, but I find that some colours light it up more than others, red is basically invisible! There's a little arc just over the seatbelt upper mountings too. Now proud owner of a 2007 Cooper S! |
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| MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Warwickshire Local Time: 02:47 AM
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Offline | Is that right? The only illumination I have on my 07 clubman are the two lights near the rear view mirror and the illumination of the B pillar airbag covers. Should there be more ambient lighting than that? |
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| MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Warwickshire Local Time: 02:47 AM
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Offline | Thanks. Hmmmm, I am absolutely certain that it doesn't (i do a lot of night driving). Are they LEDs or is the light distributed from a bulb somewhere via some sort of fibre optic cable? I don't really want to make a trip to the dealer for something so trivial....................... |
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| scrap merchant Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: York Local Time: 02:47 AM
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Offline | Have you got anything in the door pockets? If you have, you tend not to be able to see the lighting below the armrest from experience. Also, the shades between the two extremes of blue and orange never seem to be as bright... ![]() |
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| MINI2 Newbie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Warwickshire Local Time: 02:47 AM
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Offline | I am officially a complete muppet. ![]() Becuase I had the colour set to that sort of violet colour and the dash illumination set to minimum its too dim to see that the door pulls and door pockets are illuminated. Switching it all the way round to the full blue or the other way to the full orange I can see the pulls and pockets illumination is actually working. Anyhow at least that got that cleared up........ |
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