Beanbag Girl

Is there any way to turn this feature off? Its great when there is an SUV or a truck behind me, but on the freeway I hate not being able to clearly see what's going on behind me.

Cheers,
Jojo

Andy Hedin

Small piece of black electrical tape over the 2 sensors and it shouldn't function anymore.

S4_Obsessed

hence the interpretation of night and the resulting dimming.

Is my interpretation bad?

Andy Hedin

Or maybe it's just covering the rear-facing sensor so it never sees "headlights"....can't recall.

P. Bauer

Or, covers them, so they don't detect light, thus not auto-dimming.

Beanbag Girl

Well I can't figure out if it works by detecting low ambient light (i.e. nighttime) or if it detects flash of extra bright light (i.e. glaring headlights) and dims the rearview.

I've tried driving around with my thumb over the sensor but nothing changed. Maybe it wasn't the sensor? I assumed it was the little node on the bottom of the rearview frame.

I'll try covering it and waving flashlights in front of it this evening, if someone knows for sure where the sensor is

Cheers,
Jojo

Neptune

...that you could adjust the sensitivity of it somehow. Am I dreaming that?

Vtec_Killer

There is a little sensor on the front portion of the mirror as well.

S4_Obsessed

front of the rear view mirror with no success. Previously covered them etc. No luck.
Since I've gotten used to it a little, but it still bugs me.

leslie

feature when I drive cars w/o them...