Sierra SLE headlights soulution?

jamin87ss · January 19, 2015

Well guys n gals the other night i took my kid to my aunts in the boondocks, I decided to try something on the way home, take a piece of paper and hold it over the intelilink screen and you will find this greatly helps the headlight situation, while this is not the whole problem, (lights still suck) I found this to help alot, gonna order some privacy screens off ebay and trim them to fit, will report when I do this

Imcrazy · January 19, 2015

i turn my dash light brightness all the way down at night, it helps.

jamin87ss · January 20, 2015

Imcrazy, yes but I love the dash, and it drives me nuts turning it down, lol always loved a bright dash going back to my trans am days, its a shame to dim that cluster,

POS VETT · January 20, 2015

You do know that you can darken the HMI to complete darkness, right?

The instrument cluster and the steering-wheel-mounted buttons are a different story. They're still too bright at the lowest setting when driving on an unlit road.

jamin87ss · January 20, 2015

Pos very do u mean the intelilink screen bye HMI? If so then no I don't, help me out,

Thanks

BowHunter1 · January 20, 2015

You do know that you can darken the HMI to complete darkness, right?

Would like to know how you do this as well

POS VETT · January 20, 2015

Start from the Main Menu. Select Settings. Scroll down and select Display. Select Turn Off Display. The HMI screen will turn off to completely dark.

This is temporary. Touching the screen or pressing a button in the center stack (including HVAC) will light up the screen back to the last window. Select Turn Off Display again if desired.

jamin87ss · January 20, 2015

Start from the Main Menu. Select Settings. Scroll down and select Display. Select Turn Off Display. The HMI screen will turn off to completely dark.

This is temporary. Touching the screen or pressing a button in the center stack (including HVAC) will light up the screen back to the last window. Select Turn Off Display again if desired.

thank you, tried it on the way home, can't wait to c how it is at night,

thanks again, not sure how i missed that when i was playing around with it,

BowHunter1 · January 21, 2015

Start from the Main Menu. Select Settings. Scroll down and select Display. Select Turn Off Display. The HMI screen will turn off to completely dark.

This is temporary. Touching the screen or pressing a button in the center stack (including HVAC) will light up the screen back to the last window. Select Turn Off Display again if desired.

Awesome....I'm soooo slow when it comes to the techy stuff these new vehicles come with lol

jamin87ss · January 21, 2015

Thanks again, big difference

POS VETT · January 21, 2015

You're welcome.

I wish there was a dedicated, physical button for this function. Often I think that electronics in a mass-produced vehicle nowadays were developed in such a rush and with insufficient operation simulations. I wonder if the team who designed the interior lighting ever tested or considered driving in complete exterior darkness for an extended amount of time. The fact that button and instrument cluster illumination cannot be turned off and turned down very low completely baffles me. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone on this.

southern_sierra · January 21, 2015

Ram 2013 and up have a physical button . Push once turns display off push again turns back on simple. Why couldn't Gm do this. They could have made the back ground of the display darker instead of a light grey in the middle. Dimming the back lighting down dims the gauges to much for me but you have to dim it all the way down to get the display dim enough aleast for me. But its what it is still love my Sierra.