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Dim instrument lights?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:18 am
by pogweasel
I have noticed that the instrument backlighting on both my 316 and 318iS is pretty pants. Is this a general e30 thing???
If yes, what can be done to improve? Alot of my driving is done at night (I work engineering shifts on the underground and it a 100 mile round trip) and it would be nice to have something more than a orangey glow....
Any assistance greatly appreciated!
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:25 am
by Sooty
Hi Nick.
Good to see you made it at last
Dim lights could be down to just old, tired bulbs (how long have they been in there?) or may be one or two died behind the dash.
Only way to tell is change them. They're only a few pence each so it's not going to hurt to try.
PS. 10.30 ish tomorrow OK for you?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 2:13 am
by Jesus325iTouring
I don 't mean this to sound patronising,but are you aware of the dash light adjuster on the light pull switch?
Reason I say is on my first E30,i put up for a long time with dull dash lights until I discovered the adjuster switch!
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:37 am
by pogweasel
Jesus325iTouring wrote:I don 't mean this to sound patronising,but are you aware of the dash light adjuster on the light pull switch?
ha ha! Yes, found it straight away - I'd had a diet of Vauxhall for several years before beemer-dom and they have the same system!
Sooty - sounds fine!
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:53 am
by Sooty
Doh!!!!
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:15 pm
by nwmlarge
i'm suffering from dim lights too if not lack of
sometimes they come on straight away some times they take till the end of the road
with it adjusted to full
is it just a case of cleaning the connections?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 4:49 pm
by Russ
Jesus325iTouring wrote:I don 't mean this to sound patronising,but are you aware of the dash light adjuster on the light pull switch?
Reason I say is on my first E30,i put up for a long time with dull dash lights until I discovered the adjuster switch!
I was gonna say that!
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 5:00 pm
by 6potWil6pot
Dont turn it up to max brightness! Youll blow the bulbs! It happened to my old 316i
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:38 pm
by Russ
6potWil6pot wrote:Dont turn it up to max brightness! Youll blow the bulbs! It happened to my old 316i
lol, is that a joke?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:43 pm
by 6potWil6pot
No it happened to both my 4 pot and the Citroen i had, 1st thing i did with them was turn the dash brightness up to full and they blew within a few weeks! I keep my dash lites quite dim now!
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:48 pm
by Russ
Ah, thats good advise mate!
1. Always let the turbo cool down (Ԛ£850 bill?)
2. Always dim the instrument lights (50p bill?)
;)
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:22 pm
by 6potWil6pot
Every bit helps! Save the Ԛ£ for fuel rather than needless repairs!
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:03 pm
by nwmlarge
6potWil6pot wrote:Every bit helps! Save the Ԛ£ for fuel rather than needless repairs!
amen to that one
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:59 pm
by krazypaul
Jesus325iTouring wrote:I don 't mean this to sound patronising,but are you aware of the dash light adjuster on the light pull switch?
Reason I say is on my first E30,i put up for a long time with dull dash lights until I discovered the adjuster switch!
Thank goodness for that snippet of advice! I'd thought I was going totally crazy trying to work out why sometimes the dash lights were dim and other times not (inadvertently twisting the light pull as I turned them on)!
Cheers!
kp