Fog Lamps; Interior Lamps; Instrument Lighting; Reading Lamps - BMW 2006 5 Series Owner's Manual

Fog lamps*

The parking lamps or low beams must be
switched on for the fog lamps to operate. The
green indicator lamp in the instrument cluster
lights up whenever the fog lamps are on.
The fog lamps are switched off whenever the
high beams are switched on.
If the automatic headlamp control is acti-
vated, the low beams will come on auto-
matically when you switch on the fog

Instrument lighting

You can control the lighting intensity by using
the knurled wheel.
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Interior lamps

The interior lamps, footwell lamps, door entry
lighting and courtesy lamps
automatically.
With the courtesy lamps, LED lights are located
in the door handles to illuminate the exterior
area before the doors.
To protect the battery, all lamps in the
vehicle are switched off approx. 15 min-
utes after radio readiness is switched off, refer
to Start/Stop button on page
Switching interior lamps on and off
manually
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Press the button.
If you want the interior lamps to remain off con-
tinuously, maintain pressure on the button for
approx. 3 seconds.

Reading lamps

Reading lamps are located in the front and rear
adjacent to the interior lamps. Press the button
briefly to switch the lamps on and off.
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