Illumination Brightness Control (Wrx-Sti); Headlight Beam Leveler (U.s.-Spec. Wrx-Sti) - Subaru 2005 Impreza Owner's Manual

Instruments and controls
Illumination brightness control
(WRX-STi)
The brightness of the combination meter can be ad-
justed in five steps with the headlight switch either the
OFF position or the "
When the control dial is turned upward or downward,
the instrument panel's illumination brightness is indi-
cated by the trip meter. The brightness is shown in five
steps from " " (dimmest) to "
If the control dial is not turned for three seconds, the
trip meter returns to its original trip meter indication.
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" or " " position.
" (brightest).
Headlight beam leveler (U.S.-spec.
WRX-STi)
The WRX-STi version has High-Intensity Discharge
(HID) headlights on the low beam setting. The HID
headlights generate more light than conventional halo-
gen headlights. Therefore a driver of an oncoming ve-
hicle may experience too much glare when your head-
light beam height adjustment is high due to the vehicle
carrying heavy load.
The headlight beam leveler can be used to adjust
beam height to avoid such a condition.
The higher the number the knob is turned to, the lower
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