Instrument Cluster Lighting Question

parshal · January 25, 2012

I've searched around but can't find what I'm looking for so please forgive me if this has been answered before.

I want to dim my instrument cluster more than the factory setting allows. When I'm on back roads in the middle of nowhere for hours at a time I like to dim my gauges and they are still pretty bright. Has anyone figure out a way to allow them to go dimmer? I don't care if it dims them a bit more at full brightness as the darned things are blinding if there's no lighting from the roads.

Sir Dan · January 27, 2012

I can turn my dash lites down until they are just barely visible at night...is that still too bright for you? What truck do you have?

txab · January 27, 2012

I think they may be able to be reprogrammed by the dealer.

parshal · January 27, 2012

I have an '09. They are still pretty darned visible at night when there is no outside ambient lighting.

I have a call to the dealer but they can't find anything at this point.

nickvrebel · January 27, 2012

I have an '09. They are still pretty darned visible at night when there is no outside ambient lighting.

I have an '09 also, and I agree. I frequently travel open areas with no other lighting and my dash lights are entirely too bright, also in certain instances I park my truck and stay in the truck, the dash lights stay on unless I open my door - annoying.

On my 2003 you could dim the lights all the way until they were no longer was visible.

tesnoboy · January 27, 2012

Get some of those old people night time driving glasses. You guys must really live out in the sticks to be so bothered by dash lights?

nickvrebel · January 27, 2012

haha, I live in the city, but during deer season every weekend I drive 150 miles away to my camp which most of the trip is on unlit roads, it really bothers me when I get on the dirt logging roads near the lease on a night with no moon.

tesnoboy · January 27, 2012

haha, I live in the city, but during deer season every weekend I drive 150 miles away to my camp which most of the trip is on unlit roads, it really bothers me when I get on the dirt logging roads near the lease on a night with no moon.

We don't have that problem around here.

You can't turn the lights all the way off anymore?

MikeNH · January 28, 2012

We don't have that problem around here. You can't turn the lights all the way off anymore?

Nope. I agree the dimmest setting can be too bright in the country where I live. No streetlights and not much devlopment makes for dark roads.

tesnoboy · January 28, 2012

We don't have that problem around here. You can't turn the lights all the way off anymore?

Nope. I agree the dimmest setting can be too bright in the country where I live. No streetlights and not much devlopment makes for dark roads.

Boy you guys have sensitive eyes. Like I said above, wear them old people night time glaucoma glasses.

Damn they really are changing the new trucks. You can't even turn off your dash lights anymore! How about putting a piece of tint over the gauge cluster lens?

MikeNH · January 28, 2012

Boy you guys have sensitive eyes. Like I said above, wear them old people night time glaucoma glasses. Damn they really are changing the new trucks. You can't even turn off your dash lights anymore! How about putting a piece of tint over the gauge cluster lens?

Not really, I just live in the woods. You're from Massachusettes so you probably have never driven on a true country road before.

tesnoboy · January 28, 2012

Boy you guys have sensitive eyes. Like I said above, wear them old people night time glaucoma glasses. Damn they really are changing the new trucks. You can't even turn off your dash lights anymore! How about putting a piece of tint over the gauge cluster lens?

Not really, I just live in the woods. You're from Massachusettes so you probably have never driven on a true country road before.

Not since I stopped driving to NH to visit my Ex-Girlfriend.