noel48

I've tried everything.When I open door lights go on,shut door they stay on.When I try using the light switch nothing happens.When I leave the car lights stay on until the battery saver feature shuts them off after 20 minutes.Can anyone help,please

crabman

Your saying you push the dimmer switch and they do not turn on and off?

Vette_DD

Yep, that's what I had to do to get mine to turn off. Just push in and hold the dimmer switch while turning it counterclockwise.

noel48

It worked! You guys are great,Thanks

stanleyp

How long the lights stay on after leaving the vehicke is user programable. REdo your Personal Settings in your DIC

tome

Mine did the same thing about a month ago, and in fact they wouldn't even shut off when driving at night with headlamps on. took to dealer, and they fixed pronto. not sure what they did.

jschindler

I had that happen twice - I about panicked the day I brought the car home. I don't know the exact sequence, but I think it had to do with turning the car off, walking away with the FOB in my pocket - then returning to the car and only using the ACC mode (not starting the car). Then turning the ACC mode off and walking away.

I found that by going back and starting the car, then turn it off in the proper manner and walking away made everything happy again.

stanleyp

One mo' time:
How long the lights stay on, after leaving the vehicle, is user programable. REdo your Personal Settings in your DIC

jschindler

That's not the issue. They were staying on WAY past what they were programmed for. That's the first thing I checked when it happened to me.

Vette_DD

Yes, same here. Mine were programmed not to stay on at all.

stanleyp

Ah! OK.

z06monster

Try holding the button firmly and saying "David Hill" 3 times backwards. It works everytime.

LS WON

These lights aren't that bright to begin with can they be shut off to stay off until you want to activate them?

crabman

You activate the lights by pushing the dimmer switch, push it again to turn them off. Each side can also be activated individually by pushing the button on the rear view mirror for the respective side. To dim the dash lights you turn the dimmer switch and hold and the lights begin to ramp up or down in intensity depending on wich way you turn the ****. Release at the desired level.

LS WON

It should be turn on and turn off simple as that. Don't know why they made this simple function a complicated thing that will wear out your bulbs and battery faster.

crabman

In use it is no more complicated than the next (modern) car. When the active steering in my wifes car went out I ended up talking to an engineer from BMW and we jawed for some time about the car from stem to stern. I complained about some of the features that I thought were more gee whiz than useful and one of them was the intricate lighting. He told me that folks percieve the car as having higher qualitly and better engineering when the lights use fades to turn off and other such trickery. My guess is we are seeing this in the C6 for the same reason.

LS WON

I just remove the bulb there no power drains..

Vette_DD

If they made it that simple, 9 out of 10 would want something different: more than 1 way to turn them on or off, lower or higher lighting, etc.

It's not complicated if you want to use it one way all the time. Just pick the method that suits you.

Don't see how it's going to wear out your bulbs any faster if you turn them on when you want and off when you want.