Illumination brightness control (wrx-sti), Headlight beam leveler (u.s. spec. wrx-sti) – Subaru 2004 Impreza User Manual

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Illumination brightness control

(WRX-STi)

The brightness of the combination meter can be ad-

justed in five steps with the headlight switch either the

OFF position or the “

” or “

” position.

When the control dial is turned upward or downward,

the instrument panel’s illumination brightness is indi-

cated by the trip meter. The brightness is shown in five

steps from “

” (dimmest) to “

” (brightest).

If the control dial is not turned for three seconds, the

trip meter returns to its original trip meter indication.

Headlight beam leveler (U.S. spec.

WRX-STi)

The WRX-STi version has High-Intensity Discharge

(HID) headlights on the low beam setting. The HID

headlights generate more light than conventional halo-

gen headlights. Therefore a driver of an oncoming ve-

hicle may experience too much glare when your head-

light beam height adjustment is high due to the vehicle

carrying heavy load.

The headlight beam leveler can be used to adjust

beam height to avoid such a condition.

The higher the number the knob is turned to, the lower

UG3032AA

UG3511AA

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