I personally think this alone is ridiculous beyond belief. We spend so much money on our cars and we barely have any control over how it operates? Seems ridiculous to me. Even more so when you realize how much code is in a car these days, updates should happen more than when the dealer happens to do it to fix some issue.

 

I'm doing blue most of the time, then purple, but change on occasion.

The dealer loaner I had was different colors all around, and changed! Kinda freaked me out.

 

I keep mine on purple all the time. I'm a Baltimore girl. The dash is orange for my O's and the ambient lighting is purple for my Ravens.

 

My 6yo Son has decided that they must be dark green and that they must stay there...

 

How do u change them?

 

Orange

 

Toggle switches up by the rear view mirror, second one over from the right. If you keep pressing it it will go through the colors. If you hold it down, it will fade from one color to the next. I'm partial to purple and red, but I like that I can change up the look inside the car when I feel like it. While not all that dramatic, I love this little feature because it separates the MINI from other cars and it's one of those cool, uniquely MINI quirks.

 

You know, there are certain times when orange is the obvious color!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53074154@N00/6671359649/

 

 

I only have the blue and orange and leave it on orange since my interior color is Redwood Lounge (orangy color). Blue (or I guess purple) doesn't seem to go as well.

 

I had it set to orange to match the rest of the vehicle. My wife keeps changing it to cycling. So I gave up, and now it is cycling. I suspect that eventually she will set it to purple.

 

So far I've just left it on blue, the color it was set on when I bought the car last fall.

 

I do the color in between Blue and the next color. When you hold it down, it does the color that is between the two!

 

Yep, night vision red. I would love to be able to turn off the dash lights for dark country road driving and zero mood lighting but I can't seem to find a way to do it!! Maybe hacking the loom and adding toggle switches...

 

I usually do red to match my CR interior but sometimes orange to match the dash lighting. My girlfriend like green because she's a Packer fan... ugh.

 

From page 62 ...

 

Yes, that second from the left toggle controls the interior mood lighting, but the tach button that controls the instrument lighting goes from bright to really bright, not off to bright.

I have considered tinting the speedometer and tach lenses to cut down on the glare

 

That's strange, I was sure I got mine to go all the way down to very dim, then to off all the way. I will check again when the sun goes down. I am pretty sure I was able to completely shut off the dash lights by pressing that button repeatedly.

 

Wow! That would be great. Please let me know what you find; I might be headed to the Service Dept to get it fixed to go off when desired

 

I use red to match the exterior trim

 

I can't decide so I let it continously change.

 

I'm sorry SMOG, I was wrong :( it only gets very dim, not all the way off.

 

No problem Scott

I went out and tried again and found the same thing. Looks like a tint shop and try some samples of different shades of black tint to see which level of tint will hide the numbers/indicators when on the very dimmest setting. I will probably try to cut little windows in it where important warning indicators would show if something went wrong.

The bright blue glare of the high beam indicator is really obnoxious! If you can't tell your high beams are on then start taking the bus

 

LOL right?

 

I've had my car for about five weeks now and I don't even know if my high beams work! Where I live there's no opportunity to use them.