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Considering how bright this screen is at night on my 15 Silverado, i was thinking about having it tinted. I wish there was a separate brightness adjustment, but maybe this will be a good alternative. Anyone have any experience with this? Thanks a lot.

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I'm wondering if after you tint it, it will be too dark in full sun. I know when I back out of my garage I wish it was brighter some days. I've taken to just hitting 'Home', 'Settings', 'Display', 'Turn off screen' at night if it is annoying me. You can still control most things via the steering wheel / driver information center.

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With all the functions available on the gauge cluster I just turn mine off at night. In settings under display. Just tap it to turn back on. I wish it was easier to do, but use this all the time.

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I tinted mine about a year and a half ago, the brightness at night was driving me nuts. Just picked up some 50% and 30% VLT stuff from the parts store as well as a set of screen protectors made by Tech Armor on Amazon.

 

This allowed me to trim the tint and apply directly to the screen protector which is fairly rigid and then put everything in the truck after the tint had bonded to the screen protector. Unfortunately I'm not sure if I ended up with the 50% or 30% stuff on the truck but it's much better at night. It is a little difficult to see at times during the day if the screen is in direct light but that doesn't happen too often.

 

These trucks really should have a way to control the radio screen brightness independently from the cluster lights but that will never happen.

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I dont have a K2 but i read pretty much everything that catches my eye on these forums. But here's a thought that came to me when i read this one.

If you can figure out which wire makes the screen dim it may be possible to put a potentiometer in line with it so you could control the brightness independant of the other dash lights?

SouthernSilveradoGuy85 Senior Enthusiast

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Maybe it's a setting and I can't remember but both the DIC in the gauge cluster and the 8" screen in the dash dim when the headlights come on at night (not daytime running lights). At least that's what it does when I have the headlight setting to auto, maybe it doesn't do it if I manually turn the headlights on.

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I dont have a K2 but i read pretty much everything that catches my eye on these forums. But here's a thought that came to me when i read this one.

If you can figure out which wire makes the screen dim it may be possible to put a potentiometer in line with it so you could control the brightness independant of the other dash lights?

This was my original plan but there's basically just a single data cable going into the screen and I didn't want to risk breaking something by trying to tap into that and figure out which one was for brightness if it's even possible.

 

Maybe it's a setting and I can't remember but both the DIC in the gauge cluster and the 8" screen in the dash dim when the headlights come on at night (not daytime running lights). At least that's what it does when I have the headlight setting to auto, maybe it doesn't do it if I manually turn the headlights on.

My issue is that the 8" screen doesn't dim enough. For me out in the sticks, the radio was still too bright even with the dimmer at the minimum setting. At this level, I couldn't really see the instrument cluster.

SouthernSilveradoGuy85 Senior Enthusiast

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My issue is that the 8" screen doesn't dim enough. For me out in the sticks, the radio was still too bright even with the dimmer at the minimum setting. At this level, I couldn't really see the instrument cluster.

 

You must have sensitive eyes then or you wear glasses that have bad glare because it's never bothered me ever since getting my truck 2 years ago and I wear glasses.

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You must have sensitive eyes then or you wear glasses that have bad glare because it's never bothered me ever since getting my truck 2 years ago and I wear glasses.

I don't wear glasses and don't believe I have overly sensitive eyes. The GMC theme has a blue blackground with light blue accents under the preset buttons and on the center of the screen. The result is the entire screen is brighter at night.

 

There are others who have the same problem. I've never had an issue with other vehicles so I don't think it's just me. I just prefer a dark cab at night. Another fix that would be easy for GM to implement (since they claim adding something to adjust the radio 8" screen brightness would require a hardware mod) would be to provide an update to the system with a night theme.

 

My Harley has this and so does my $100 Garmin. The screen colors switch to a completely black background at night and therefore reduce the overall brightness from the screen significantly. The truck color scheme doesn't change at night.

Rock1500 Senior Enthusiast

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I don't wear glasses and don't believe I have overly sensitive eyes. The GMC theme has a blue blackground with light blue accents under the preset buttons and on the center of the screen. The result is the entire screen is brighter at night.

 

There are others who have the same problem. I've never had an issue with other vehicles so I don't think it's just me. I just prefer a dark cab at night. Another fix that would be easy for GM to implement (since they claim adding something to adjust the radio 8" screen brightness would require a hardware mod) would be to provide an update to the system with a night theme.

 

My Harley has this and so does my $100 Garmin. The screen colors switch to a completely black background at night and therefore reduce the overall brightness from the screen significantly. The truck color scheme doesn't change at night.

I believe the 2014 had 2 themes, one white and one black. I've always ran the black theme. I heard it was removed in the 2015 and up models. I'm not sure why they would do it. It's not like they put any effort or thought into the infotament system.

 

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I believe the 2014 had 2 themes, one white and one black. I've always ran the black theme. I heard it was removed in the 2015 and up models. I'm not sure why they would do it. It's not like they put any effort or thought into the infotament system.

 

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The Sierra's, at least my 14 All Terrain only has the one stock theme. I know the Chevy's have more though.

SouthernSilveradoGuy85 Senior Enthusiast

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My '14 LT has 4 themes but all of them have a black background where 1 is just black and I think all the rest has a design but is still black. The main difference is the design of the touch buttons.

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