Infotainment System Lighting

[monkeynuts]

At the bottom of the Infotainment System you have controls for Heating Temp and Sound Volume but when its dark these do not light up .

Have I missed a setting or is my System not well

 

[SRGTD]

No, you’ve not missed a setting, nor is it an indication your system’s unwell - that’s just the way they are.

Lots of discussions on many VAG forums of VAG’s ‘oversight‘ to illuminate these slider panels for heating and volume adjustment below the infotainment screen.

 

[monkeynuts]

No, you’ve not missed a setting, nor is it an indication your system’s unwell - that’s just the way they are.

Lots of discussions on many VAG forums of VAG’s ‘oversight‘ to illuminate these slider panels for heating and volume adjustment below the infotainment screen.

Cheers For the reply .How they could design it this way is beyond me and dangerous at night looks like I will have to add something so I can see

 

[Seastormer]

Cheers For the reply .How they could design it this way is beyond me and dangerous at night looks like I will have to add something so I can see

A head torch from Amazon is popular I believe.

 

[SRGTD]

Cheers For the reply .How they could design it this way is beyond me and dangerous at night looks like I will have to add something so I can see

It does certainly seem to be an oversight.

There’s a view by some that backlighting of that panel isn’t necessary as the audio volume can be adjusted using the steering wheel controls, and the climate control can be set to auto to maintain the desired temperature. Whilst I agree it’s less of an issue with the audio volume, even in cars that I’ve owned auto climate control I’ve still found there were situations when I’d need to make temperature adjustments when the climate control was set to ‘auto’ (not currently an issue for me as my 2020 VW has conventional illuminated rotary knobs for heating, ventilation and A/C).

The last car I owned without illuminated heating controls was a mk1 Ford Fiesta back in 1980-1982………?