Interior Lights - Audi R8 Spyder 2014 Owner's Manual

Interior lights
Interior lights
The interior lights include the reading lights
for the driver and the front passenger .
Fig. 55 Section from head liner : Interior lights
Activating door contact circuit
• Press the button @ . The LED in the button
illuminates.
Deactivating door contact circuit
• Press the button @ . The LED in the button
goes out.
Front reading light s ~
• Press one of the switches ® to turn the
right or left reading light on/off .
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With the doo r contact circuit, the interior
lights turn on as soon as you unlock the vehi-
cle or open the doors. The interior lights are
also turned on when the ignition key is re-
moved. The lights turn off about 30 seconds
after the doors are closed . When the vehicle is
locked or when the ignit ion is tu rned on, the
inte rior lights are turned off .
When a door is open, the interior lights are
turned off after about 10 m inutes to prevent
battery draining.
The brightness of the lights is controlled au-
tomatically by a dimmer when they are
switched on/off.
Clear vi sion 49
Instrument panel illumination
The illumination of the instruments, displays
and the center console can be adjusted .
Fig. 56
Instrumen t pa nel illuminat ion
You regu late the brightness of the instr u-
ments with the left thumbwheel
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fig. 56 .
Ignition ON, light switch at @
With the ign ition switched ON, the glow of
in-
strument needles
can be adjusted to appea r
brighter or dimmer.
Ignition ON, light switch at
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or ~D.
With the lights switched on, the br ightness of
instrument cluster (i.e. needles, gauges and
displays) and center conso le illuminat ion can
be adjusted .
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Note
The instrument cluster and center conso le
illumination (gauges and need les) comes
on when you sw itch on the ignition and the
vehicle headlights are off. Be awa re of t he
fo llow ing difference be tween models bu ilt
to US or Canadian specifications:
- USA mo de ls: illumination of the instr u-
ment cluster (gauges and need les), dash
and center conso le around the gearshift
lever is controlled by a light sensor locat-
ed in the instrument pane l. The instru-
ment pa nel illuminat ion will automati-
cally become dimmer as the daylight
fades away and eventually will go out
completely when outs ide light is very
low. This is to remind you, the dr iver, to
switch o n the hea dlights before it get s
too dark.