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      07-19-2018, 01:33 PM   #1
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Ambient lighting coding for newer cars

Has anyone found a way to get the extra colors on the ambient lighting on a newer car?

Seems to have worked like a charm on 2014-2017 cars
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Has anyone found a way to get the extra colors on the ambient lighting on a newer car?

Seems to have worked like a charm on 2014-2017 cars
It works on 14-17' unless you have SW update. I would also assume no given a fix hasn't been found for the SW update
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Has anyone found a way to get the extra colors on the ambient lighting on a newer car?

Seems to have worked like a charm on 2014-2017 cars
It works on 14-17' unless you have SW update. I would also assume no given a fix hasn't been found for the SW update
Did they just remove something in the update that doesn't allow us to change them now? Or are they just blocking it from working.
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Has anyone found a way to get the extra colors on the ambient lighting on a newer car?

Seems to have worked like a charm on 2014-2017 cars
It works on 14-17' unless you have SW update. I would also assume no given a fix hasn't been found for the SW update
Did they just remove something in the update that doesn't allow us to change them now? Or are they just blocking it from working.
Honesty not sure. My guess is they just removed the ability.
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Has anyone found a way to get the extra colors on the ambient lighting on a newer car?

Seems to have worked like a charm on 2014-2017 cars
It works on 14-17' unless you have SW update. I would also assume no given a fix hasn't been found for the SW update
Did they just remove something in the update that doesn't allow us to change them now? Or are they just blocking it from working.
Honesty not sure. My guess is they just removed the ability.
Such an odd thing to block people from doing. I wonder what their reasoning is.
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I think this was taken care of already
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The ambient lighting coding still does not work even with the update
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I think this was taken care of already
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Yep this has been a long point of discussion already in the dedicated threads. Not fixed.
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Yep this has been a long point of discussion already in the dedicated threads. Not fixed.
My car was in for service earlier this week... I was worried, but they didn’t mess with my settings 🙂
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Yep this has been a long point of discussion already in the dedicated threads. Not fixed.
My car was in for service earlier this week... I was worried, but they didn’t mess with my settings
You can also ask them simply not to do it.
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