Hi all,How do you alter brightness of lights on dash,

car is 2013 rapid 1.6tdi se.

Cheers mick.

It's usually set in the infotainment system, provided yours is high-end enough. If not just look in the owners manual

 

looked in manual but can`t find anything , will check settings.

cheers Mick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

looked

47 minutes ago, mickholmwood said:

looked in manual but can`t find anything

If you have a infotainment system then you might have a second manual just for that.

 

Thanks. AG Falco

My manual writes about setting the brightness in the "lighting and visibility" chapter, no idea how this chapter is actually called in the English manual. Page 60.

 

It says "When the lights are on (excluding DRLs), dashboard lighting brightness can be adjusted in the "Infotainment" system (and then has a direction to the infotainment manual).

https://www.skoda.co.uk/apps/manuals/Detail?model=Rapid_NH&edition=05-2013&market=&manualLang=en

 

 

There appears to be an adjustment possible in Blues and amundsen but cannot find it in the swing

Edited 12 November, 20232 yr by Stonekeeper

6 minutes ago, Stonekeeper said:

https://www.skoda.co.uk/apps/manuals/Detail?model=Rapid_NH&edition=05-2013&market=&manualLang=en

funnily enough, the paragraph within the "note" about instrument lighting in the 2016 Rapid manual is absent here... seems there isn't any mention about adjusting the brightness!

looked all through manual and no mention of dimming dash lights, radio is a swing type.

Assuming the radio is this style of Swing:

 

I wouldn't expect it won't have any settings to adjust the brightness.

 

If anywhere, I'd expect the adjustment to be next to the headlight switch on this age/platform:

 

However, as the 2013 owners manual doesn't mention anything. I expect it's 'automatic' and no user adjustment can be performed 😞

 

23 hours ago, Stonekeeper said:

There appears to be an adjustment possible in Blues and amundsen but cannot find it in the swing

 

Pretty sure that will only effect the headunit brightness and not the instrument cluster etc.

4 minutes ago, langers2k said:

Assuming the radio is this style of Swing:

 

I wouldn't expect it won't have any settings to adjust the brightness.

 

If anywhere, I'd expect the adjustment to be next to the headlight switch on this age/platform:

 

However, as the 2013 owners manual doesn't mention anything. I expect it's 'automatic' and no user adjustment can be performed 😞

 

 

Pretty sure that will only effect the headunit brightness and not the instrument cluster etc.

The switch alongside the light switch is to adjust headlamp height when carrying a load

Just now, mickholmwood said:

The switch alongside the light switch is to adjust headlamp height when carrying a load

 

Yes - I am aware of that

 

I was just saying that if anywhere - that's where I'd expect,. For example on this VW Polo:

 

You can probably retrofit it but you'll likely need to add three wires to the BCM and possibly recode it.

 

2 hours ago, langers2k said:

 

Yes - I am aware of that

 

I was just saying that if anywhere - that's where I'd expect,. For example on this VW Polo:

 

You can probably retrofit it but you'll likely need to add three wires to the BCM and possibly recode it.

 

Agree with you thats where I would have thought it would be,

the needles light upwhen ign on,the back light only comes on with lights , is this normal.

3 hours ago, mickholmwood said:

the needles light upwhen ign on,the back light only comes on with lights , is this normal.

 

I believe so - I think it's to encourage you to turn the lights on.

Newer rapids (MY16+) have a light sensor in the instrument cluster so it does light up even when lights are off, but only when there is sufficient daylight hitting the instrument cluster (so you would turn the lights on when it's dark). Then the brightness with lights on is adjustable in the radio. Swing 1 was already replaced with Swing 2 which has car settings so it's no longer a problem.

6 hours ago, Kostas123 said:

Newer rapids (MY16+) have a light sensor in the instrument cluster so it does light up even when lights are off, but only when there is sufficient daylight hitting the instrument cluster (so you would turn the lights on when it's dark). Then the brightness with lights on is adjustable in the radio. Swing 1 was already replaced with Swing 2 which has car settings so it's no longer a problem.

Mine is a 2013 and the radio is a swing