Does anyone actually use their dimmer switch?

at night in the city I like it bright and outside of town I turn it down low. use it almost everyday especially in the winter.

 

I use mine every time I drive at night, which is often.

If you decide to remove the switch all together let me know. A friend of mine (who uses his as well) is in the market for one.

 

^This.

 

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I use mine all the time, I can't stand that bright ass dash in my face when I'm on some dark ass road in the middle of the night.

 

It's the kind of thing you rarely use, but when the time comes, you're oh so glad to have it. A couple hours into a drive on an empty freeway at night and those gauges look mighty bright, even with the amber hue. The ultragauge is a bad offender here, the screen will disappear in the daytime shadows if you set the minimum brightness to less than 6% or so, but at night it really needs to be 0%, and it's buried in menu options to turn it down so no easy on-the-freeway adjustments.

Just think, it could be like Honda's most retarded idea ever: put white, red, and blue LED-lit gauges in the car bright enough to see in sahara sunlight, then make the tripmeter reset button into a little knob (still in the same place as our Taco one is) and make that the dimmer.

If you see people driving a Honda and have half their arm through the steering wheel going down the highway, you'll know why.

 

I keep mine as low as I can and still read it. Hold over from night flying...I'm constantly turning down the illum in the cockpit to improve visibility outside of the helo.

 

This ^^

 

I have mine dimmed to about 40%. Helps keep my eyes focused on the road. At full brightness, I think the dash is pretty bright.

 

This is how all my rides are. My gf hates it because she likes them bright. She adjusts the honda one, but not the tacoma one, probably because she never drives it.

 

I just set it to almost off at night then forget it.

 

i do. i cant stand it when im driving at night and the lights on the dash are bright. maybe i have pussidis, but it hurts my eyes.

 

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i turn mine all the way off and then as soon as they come on leave it right there (dimmest setting). better visibility out the windows

 

i use mine all of the time.

 

I use mine at night when the wife wants to lay her head in my lap on the ride home

 

The bright orange on my 09 is to bright for me on long highway stretches, especially when there's not much other traffic around. I turn it down then quite a bit, easier to see and easier on the eyes.

 

When I first got my Tacoma, I drove out of a gas station at night with my head lights off not realizing they were off because I thought my Dash being illuminated = lights on lol. I was used to have to turn my lights on to see my dash with my F150, so I thought they were already on... And Man I felt retarded at that moment.

 

Same here. I dim at night. Can't stand all that bright light!

 

On the Tacomas, what happens if you click the dimmer wheel all the way down? On my F-150, it puts the interior in dark mode, and cuts all interior lights, to include the dome lights, even when the doors are opened. I am hoping the Tacoma works the same way. That feature is nice when you need to have a door(s) open for extended times, and don't want to drain your battery. If it doesn't function this way on a Taco, is there another way to disable the lighting when a door is opened?