Gauges Too Dark/Screens Too Bright

[ARAMP1]

OP, I'd bet forscan has something. It's really odd that your "brightness" is grayed out. There has to be a setting that is blocking that out. Found this on an F-150 forum, worth a shot:

Basically, put it in night mode, exit out of menu, then brightness should be available. There is also mention in that same thread that this bug should have been fixed in Sync 3.4, so make sure you have the latest Sync on your car.

Search is all over the place with gauges too bright or not bright enough. Found that brightness is greyed out when the lights are off, which was a SYNC3.4 update.
There might be something in the BMC. The search continues.

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[WItoTX]

Search is all over the place with gauges too bright or not bright enough. Found that brightness is greyed out when the lights are off, which was a SYNC3.4 update.
There might be something in the BMC. The search continues.

So it sounds like if you turn your lights on, you can then adjust brightness, assuming you are not in the "auto" mode?

Ditch the stereo. Make it a race car. Problem solved haha

 

[ARAMP1]

So it sounds like if you turn your lights on, you can then adjust brightness, assuming you are not in the "auto" mode?

Ditch the stereo. Make it a race car. Problem solved haha

LOL. The point of buying this car was so I had a commuter.

 

[Rapid Red]

Search is all over the place with gauges too bright or not bright enough. Found that brightness is greyed out when the lights are off, which was a SYNC3.4 update.
There might be something in the BMC. The search continues.

So why not turn on the lights, select the brightness, thinking that setting will be remembered next time the lights are turned on?

 

[ARAMP1]

So why not turn on the lights, select the brightness, thinking that setting will be remembered next time the lights are turned on?

As it turns out, I had thought of that. I roll with mine all the way down. Though, adjusting the brightness only works for the infotainment screen. The gauges are still too dark compared to the center gauge screen (and infotainment screen on full dim).

After some google-fu, it seems that brightness/darkness is all over the place. Just as many complain that it's not bright enough as are complaining that it's too bright. Even WItoTX says his center screen is difficult to read. I think what I may do is try some window tint material over the displays to see if that works. Maybe some trial and error will even them out.

 

[TonyNJ]

I often turn off the infotainment screen off... usually at night. Then it's just all about the gauges.

 

[Sean22]

We need to clarify. The "older style" gauges look far better than any digital gauge, ever. End of story

Also, I thought you could dim the radio LCD by itself. And I've personally never though the center stack LCD was too bright, so I am not much help on that, sorry

Nah, love my digital dash

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