how to change the backlight from orange to white?

135iDCT · 03-30-2017, 05:58 PM

how?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5rLzN8rpgs

skip to 1:00

mstevens · 03-30-2017, 09:17 PM

More importantly, "why?"

BMW's have orange instrument lighting. It makes no sense that they made it possible to switch.

big stu · 03-31-2017, 05:29 AM

you need to unsolder orange leds and replace with white ones its hardware changes not coding

mstevens · 03-31-2017, 10:19 PM

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Originally Posted by big stu

you need to unsolder orange leds and replace with white ones its hardware changes not coding

Quite possibly.

On my M4 it's possible to change the backlighting from iDrive, even though that's just plain wrong.

jmg · 04-01-2017, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by mstevens

More importantly, "why?"

BMW's have orange instrument lighting. It makes no sense that they made it possible to switch.

You can toggle between white (sport) and orang/red (classic) in the M3/4. Personally I keep it on the classic red/orange but if you want to look like a M car I guess someone could go through all that trouble.

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