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Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - DiscoDad - 06-01-2013 11:53am
Morning All,
When approaching the car in pitch darkness it looks really nice all lit up when you press the unlock button.
The rear lights & front sidelights come on, puddle lights under the mirrors even come on so that you can see anything that you might need to avoid stepping in!
As you get in, the dash is lit, nicely showing you all the controls, except that is, for one (or two) important buttons.
The start/stop button is not illuminated.
The seat memory buttons are not illuminated.
These are the 2 buttons that I want to press first before doing anything else in the car prior to driving off.
Also, when parking the car in darkness, I always switch off the lights before turning off the engine, it's just something that I've always done. But when you do, the start/stop button goes out and you can't see it! the D4 was just the same.
Designers can be so short sighted sometimes don't you think?
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - scalle - 06-01-2013 12:40pm
hey, that is true, i'd also like the memorybuttons to be illuminated,
also i'd like that the ill. doorsteps would change color together with the ambient led-lighting!
Re: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - goldenboi79 - 06-01-2013 12:59pm
DiscoDad - Headlamps are automatic, no? Why are you manually turning them off before exiting the car? If you leave the on auto the interior will stay illuminated as necessary an lighting only extinguish on locking. Also does your cabin dome lighting not come on when you open the doors? This should easily allow you to see the start button and seat memory buttons. I enter and exit my Evoque in a pitch black drive and have never experienced any issues seeing buttons.
Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - gren_ru - 06-01-2013 03:54pm
((P)) button don't illuminate too.....
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - eddkawasaki - 06-01-2013 04:28pm
on the subject of lights I did find a kind of design feature which is quite nice, if you press the headlights button on the remote the headlights come on (kind of obvious i know) but if you are approaching from the back of the car press it again and the reversing lights come on too lighting up the approach from the rear.
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - Asty - 06-01-2013 07:36pm
The memory buttons would not need to illuminate if the memory function was linked to the key that unlocked the car. On our Z4, the seats move as soon as you open the door.
Totally agree with the start/stop button though.
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - slee18 - 06-01-2013 08:46pm
My memory button illuminate when the headlights are on
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - goldenboi79 - 07-01-2013 04:44am
Mine do as well. It sounds like DiscoDad manuals turns his headlights off for some reason though.
(06-01-2013 08:46pm)slee18 Wrote: My memory button illuminate when the headlights are on
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - Bowl - 07-01-2013 10:32pm
(06-01-2013 12:59pm)goldenboi79 Wrote: DiscoDad - Headlamps are automatic, no? Why are you manually turning them off before exiting the car? If you leave the on auto the interior will stay illuminated as necessary an lighting only extinguish on locking. Also does your cabin dome lighting not come on when you open the doors? This should easily allow you to see the start button and seat memory buttons. I enter and exit my Evoque in a pitch black drive and have never experienced any issues seeing buttons.
+1
I leave it on Auto all the time. A mad scientist spent some years of his life in his basement and finally came up with this very useful technology. For the sake of his contribution, I say let's make use of it.
RE: Car Designers - Missing the obvious! - ojonesyo - 07-01-2013 11:02pm
(06-01-2013 11:53am)DiscoDad Wrote: Morning All,
When approaching the car in pitch darkness it looks really nice all lit up when you press the unlock button.
The rear lights & front sidelights come on, puddle lights under the mirrors even come on so that you can see anything that you might need to avoid stepping in!
As you get in, the dash is lit, nicely showing you all the controls, except that is, for one (or two) important buttons.
The start/stop button is not illuminated.
The seat memory buttons are not illuminated.
These are the 2 buttons that I want to press first before doing anything else in the car prior to driving off.
Also, when parking the car in darkness, I always switch off the lights before turning off the engine, it's just something that I've always done. But when you do, the start/stop button goes out and you can't see it! the D4 was just the same.
Designers can be so short sighted sometimes don't you think?
erm.......I'm sure my start button has red glowing lettering?????