Lighting Features; Entry Lighting; Battery Load Management; Exit Lighting - Cadillac 2016 CTS Owner's Manual

170 Lighting
To manually turn the reading lamps
on or off:
Press or next to each
overhead console reading lamp.
Press the lamp lenses over the rear
passenger doors.

Lighting Features

Entry Lighting

Some exterior lamps and most of
the interior lights turn on briefly at
night when is pressed on the
Remote Keyless Entry (RKE)
transmitter. See Remote Keyless
Entry (RKE) System Operation 0 30.
After about 30 seconds the exterior
lamps turn off, then the remaining
interior lights dim to off. Entry
lighting can be disabled manually by
changing the ignition out of the OFF
position, or by pressing
RKE transmitter.
This feature can be turned on or off.
See Vehicle Locator Lights under
Vehicle Personalization 0 153.

Exit Lighting

Some exterior lamps and interior
lights come on at night, or in areas
with limited lighting, when the driver
door is opened after the ignition is
turned off. The dome lamp comes
on after the ignition is changed to
the OFF position. The exterior
lamps and dome lamp remain on for
a set amount of time, then
automatically turn off.
The exterior lamps turn off
immediately by turning the exterior
lamp control off.
This feature can be changed. See
Vehicle Personalization 0 153.
Battery Load
Management
The vehicle has Electric Power
Management (EPM), which
estimates the battery's temperature
on the
and state of charge. It then adjusts
the voltage for best performance
and extended life of the battery.
When the battery's state of charge
is low, the voltage is raised slightly
to quickly bring the charge back up.
When the state of charge is high,
the voltage is lowered slightly to
prevent overcharging. If the vehicle
has a voltmeter gauge or a voltage
display on the Driver Information
Center (DIC), you may see the