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Old May 29, 2007 | 09:39 AM
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Ambient Lighting: What color are you?

Enough of this talk about important stuff...what color do you run on your ambient lighting???

I actually had to intentionally take my Cooper out after dark last night to see how the ambient lights looked. Very nice...especially coming from an earlier Cooper which had none!!!

So I'll be running blue pretty much all the time. As has been reported, it seems the brightest.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 09:39 AM
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:01 AM
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+ 2. It matches the LED's I put in
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:07 AM
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Wow...I wonder if anybody uses the other shades?
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:11 AM
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LOL..I use blue too! Makes me feel like I'm in a space ship.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:12 AM
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I think blue looks more interesting. I might have used red, if available, but amber doesn't do much for me.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:20 AM
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I like blue the best but I noticed the two blue dots in the front tend to catch my eye to much sometimes so I'll switch to orange ,my wife likes pink,I wish you could switch the dash to blue but it might be to soothing and put you to sleep.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:26 AM
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Blue here as well. Wife tried to change it to purple but I would have none of that.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Robin Casady
amber doesn't do much for me.
I know. I believe the ambient lighting in R50/53 was orange-only. I wonder if it was brighter.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:28 AM
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I usually use blue. Sometimes purkle. But I have to say, overall, I find the ambience lighting fairly unimpressive. The only place it is really noticeable is on the seatbelt anchors and I can't exactly see them while driving.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:34 AM
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I run the orange because it matches the speedo/tach
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 10:52 AM
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Blue here too.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 11:16 AM
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I have to admit that the colors look fab at night, I go for Blue, wife likes Pink. It would be neat if all the console lighting could be varied using the same technology.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 11:31 AM
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It won't be orange!

Gig 'em Aggies!
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 11:59 AM
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It'd be awesome if the color could be set for each key, so per se when the wife puts hers in its pink and mine is blue. Unfortunately I couldnt it see it when i test drove one during the day.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:07 PM
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Anyone have pictures of it, I did a quick search and couldnt find any.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:15 PM
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I use blue on mine, eventhough I haven't drive nat night yet. I'm more anxious to see the HIDs in action.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:19 PM
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I guess you all should realise that this "MOOD" lighting in our Minis may cause a spike in the US birth rate in the future
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:37 PM
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Originally Posted by LynnEl
I usually use blue. Sometimes purkle. But I have to say, overall, I find the ambience lighting fairly unimpressive. The only place it is really noticeable is on the seatbelt anchors and I can't exactly see them while driving.
It's a shame that they did not put the ambient lighting on a different dimmer than the dash lights. To get the ambirnt lighting bright enough to really see, you have to crank the dash lights up all the way.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:40 PM
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The blue is brightest and shows off the interior better, but is distracting, so I stick to the orange.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 12:48 PM
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I keep it at orange, seems to be a better match with the rest of the instrument panel.
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 01:12 PM
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Chalk up another blue. soothing blue...
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 01:14 PM
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blue here as well. The other colours seem too distracting
 
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Old May 29, 2007 | 02:51 PM
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Ditto

Originally Posted by Klasse Act
I run the orange because it matches the speedo/tach
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Old May 29, 2007 | 03:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 4xAAA
It won't be orange!

Gig 'em Aggies!

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same here, any but orange
 
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