I have noticed something strange happening with my 2010 Mustang GT Premium two time. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not.

I have the the MyColor settings set for blue gauges, red halos, and white ambient lighting. When I first turned on my car this morning, I put the headlights and fog lights in the "On" position, not the "Auto" position. The gauges, halos, and ambient lighting were all on as expected. After driving for a couple of minutes, without touching a thing, the gauges reverted to the white color, no halo coloring, and the ambient lighting went off. I tried turning my lights to the "Off" positon and back on to see if the same thing would happen, but none of the MyColor colors appeared anywhere.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is this normal? I tried searching the forums and couldn't find anyone mentioning this particular issue, so maybe it is a bug in my car. I really don't want to have to take it in for service as long as this is normal.

Anyone and everyone, please chime in.

Thank you in advance!

 

Another person on another forum has given me an answer. It is below for anyone else wondering about the answer:


"This is normal. The ambient light sensor (little black dome thing on top of your dash, near the center of the windshield) is telling your car it's too light to use the 'night' settings for gauge backlighting (MyColor only activates when the gauges are illuminated with 'night' lighting).

Since the ambient light sensor said it's too bright for that, it illuminated your gauges with the 'daytime' settings for best visibility, which unfortunately you cannot change. Turning your headlamps on (during the daytime) has no effect on this. As soon as it gets dark outside (as determined by the ambient light sensor), your MyColor settings will take if your parking or headlamps are on.

So, to recap, you'll only get MyColor to show up IF:

1.) Your headlamp switch is set to headlamps, parking lights, or 'Auto'

AND

2.) The ambient light sensor agrees it's dark enough to transition from 'daylight' settings to 'night' settings."


Thanks anyway guys!

 

I've read that if you turn on your headlights and it is daylight out the gauges will display in white, rather than your chosen MyColor color. Perhaps Ford figures that unless it is dark outside, the gauges will be kind of hard to read with a darker color for the gauge face. I hadn't read anything about the Ambient Lighting also turning off but I suppose in daylight it would be hard to even see them anyway, so Ford programs them to turn off. My best guess, anyway.

 

Good info. Thanks for posting.

 

it seems to me with the auto headlights on there are 3 separate states, daylight, low light and night.
daylight = white face and headlights off
night = color choice face and lights on
low light= i have noticed several times that my headlights will go on in low light (dusk, heavy overcast) but the gauge faces will remain white.

 

Now, that is interesting. I am going to experiment with it to see these different states. If that is true, that is pretty amazing. Thanks for sharing!

 

You could always cover the sensor so that it thinks it's dark.