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Instrument lighting, Interior lamps – Mini 2012 Coupe Roadster Convertible User Manual

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Lamps

CONTROLS

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Turn on rear fog lamps:
Press the switch downward

To switch them off, press the switch upward or
downward again.

Front fog lamps

The parking lamps or low beams must be
switched on for the fog lamps to operate. The
green indicator lamp lights up when the fog
lamps are switched on.
Depending on your vehicle's equipment, the fog
lamps are switched off when you activate the
headlamp flasher or switch on the high beams.

If the automatic headlamp control is acti-
vated, the low beams will come on auto-

matically when you switch on the fog lamps.

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Rear fog lamp

The low beams or parking lamps with fog lamps
must be switched on. The yellow indicator lamp
comes on when the rear fog lamp is switched on.

Instrument lighting

You can adjust the brightness of the instrument
lighting only when the parking lamps or the low
beams are on.
The intensity of the brightness changes up to a
predetermined end point, and then decreases.

Adjusting brightness

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Briefly press button: brightness changes in
stages.

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Press and hold the button. Brightness
changes in a continuous manner.

Interior lamps

The interior lighting, the footwell lamps and the
luggage compartment lighting are automati-
cally controlled.

To reduce the drain on the battery, a short
while after the ignition is switched off,

refer to Start/Stop button on page

60

, all lights in

the vehicle's passenger compartment are
switched off.

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Switching interior lamps on/off manually

To switch the interior lamps on/off.
Press the switch.
To switch off the interior lamps permanently,
press the switch for about 3 seconds.

Reading lamps

To switch the reading lamps on and off.
Press the switch.

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