Hi everyone,
I'm a new i30 owner and I'm loving the car overall. There is just a small issue I have with the blue lights from the audio panel reflecting on the windscreen at night. I know the brightness can be reduced and there is a dark button but it still seems a little annoying pressing this when i change volume/channel. I might be obsessing a bit because I can't find anything else to fault yet lol. It would be good if it turned off automatically at night after a few seconds or something like that. Has anyone else noticed this and does it bother you?
Thanks guys.
P.S. Hope to get a photo of the car on here soon. It's a Czech model 1.4 comfort black (2010).
audio panel reflecting on the windscreen at night.my radio did that,after i removed the protective plastic film on the screen it didn't do it anymore. :rolleyes:
I can turn mine off by pressing the "dark" button.
All functions still operate only the light goes off
Some people say they don't have this issue at all and am wondering if those people have a different kind of windscreen or better radio.
Its definitely a height thing. I had a play around in my seat last night and I think you would only see the reflection if you are maybe less than about 5'8" tall. Varies a bit depending how far you have your seat away from the wheel. The further back the less likely you are to see it.its possably the brightness you've set the dash lights on. my wife is only 5' tall and shes not having this problem. I'm 6'2" plus and i drive with the seat all the way down and all the way back [im almost in the back seat] and i don't get a reflection either.try using the dash lights dimmer to take the brightness down a little. :idea: :razz:
this weekend I'm going to move my seat around to see if i can replicate this problem. as I've mentioned before my wife's around 5' nothing and she has no blue reflection. :razz:
... I understand you'll be really sick of this thread...
... Stuff like this grate me :mad: especially when i've paid 10k after saving a long time for a new car. I expect it to be just right. Enough moaning from me i'm gonna shut it for a while :wink:.
Also, if you place the resistor where you suggested, won't it also dim the lights behind the buttons?
turn down the brightness of the dash lights (the rolly knob by the key) thus will darkern the light so it will not shine on the screen
Also while there I noticed when in my driving position that the metal look stereo surround is reflected in my screen starting half way up the black matting and by tracing my finger back towards the display, I could see in the reflection that by the time I had reached the display my finger had moved off the top of the windscreen.
Somebody with longer legs but seat at the same height would probably find the display beginning to encroach onto the windscreen, however invariably I would suggest that longer legs would also mean longer back therefore sitting higher, negating the encroachment :question: :question:
I don't think the comfort model ever got athermic glass, certianly wasn't in the 2009 spec, my style has it though.
Wife: "arent you goint to watch the big political debate?"
Lorian: "no I'm going outside to look at the reflection of the radio in my windscreen"
Wife: "Don't blame you".
I have an idea that an appropriate resistance LDR in series with the dimmer switch might be an elegant solution, but I'm too tired to think about it at the moment. I need to pop the dimmer pot out an measure the range of resistance sometime.