[njbin1]

Recently mine has begun defaulting back to orange each time I start the car. Has anyone else seen this problem?

[arentz07]

Originally Posted by njbin1

Recently mine has begun defaulting back to orange each time I start the car. Has anyone else seen this problem?

Back to orange? Ours was blue when we first test-drove it.

Stays that way, too.

But no we haven't seen that issue.

[RigaTony1982]

Originally Posted by arentz07

Back to orange? Ours was blue when we first test-drove it.

Stays that way, too.

But no we haven't seen that issue.

I think the default color depends on the exterior color of the car. On my Sunset Orange the default was bronze.

[BklynNYBMW]

Traditional Orange in the X6. But blue in the M340i. The family was bored with the orange. I wanted the orange but the family voted me out. lol.
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2017 X6 5.0 MSport, Carbon Black Metallic w/ black leather. All options except vented seats and B/O sound system. AKA the Tumbler
2021 M340i xdrive. Tanzanite Blue with W/Oyster with Red Calipers. All options except Adaptive M suspension, Driver Assistance Professional Package, Cooling and High Performance Tire package. AKA Blue Angel
*Retired 04/30/21: 2018 340i MSport Xdrive sedan. Glacier Silver w/Oyster. All options except active cruise control and window shades. AKA Airstream

[wrickem]

Originally Posted by RigaTony1982

I think the default color depends on the exterior color of the car. On my Sunset Orange the default was bronze.

That sounds 100% logical but my Arctic Race Blue 430, Mineral White X5 and Carbon Black X7 were all set to Bronze at pick-up.

I like your thinking better than BMW's though

[zazzau]

I'm on blue but I coded in more colors so I go back and forth for a bit of a change.

[RigaTony1982]

Originally Posted by wrickem

That sounds 100% logical but my Arctic Race Blue 430, Mineral White X5 and Carbon Black X7 were all set to Bronze at pick-up.

I like your thinking better than BMW's though

Hmm, maybe I'm wrong then. I know someone on here before mentioned their Blue Ridge Mountain was set to green when they picked it up and I had a Portimao loaner that was set to blue, so I just assumed that was the case.

[TiMSport]

All I know is that I have tried a few different color variations and I always end up with blue. It looks the best to me and I like how it matches the blue stitch work on my leather seats and dash. Blue brake calipers as well!

I think my second favorite is lilac.

[madpistol]

Blue just feels right. Orange sometimes, but it feels a bit generic since most of the buttons are backlit orange.

[rico25]

Custom blue i coded, more like deep blue looks gorgeous

[rgmichell]

Blue, looks great with black interior! Also, matches my M brake calipers and Laser headlights!

[RigaTony1982]

Originally Posted by TiMSport

All I know is that I have tried a few different color variations and I always end up with blue. It looks the best to me and I like how it matches the blue stitch work on my leather seats and dash. Blue brake calipers as well!

I think my second favorite is lilac.

I'm in the same boat. The blue looks best with the stitching on my seats, but I sometime switch to bronze/orange since it matches the rest of the buttons. Be awesome if when you changed the ambient lighting the window switches/other buttons changed colors to match!

[arentz07]

Originally Posted by RigaTony1982

I'm in the same boat. The blue looks best with the stitching on my seats, but I sometime switch to bronze/orange since it matches the rest of the buttons. Be awesome if when you changed the ambient lighting the window switches/other buttons changed colors to match!

I wish it would adapt to drive mode. For example, if I switch to Sport, the lighting goes orange. My GLI did that and kinda miss it. The trade off is that the lighting in our cars looks 500% better.

[RigaTony1982]

Originally Posted by arentz07

I wish it would adapt to drive mode. For example, if I switch to Sport, the lighting goes orange. My GLI did that and kinda miss it. The trade off is that the lighting in our cars looks 500% better.

Yeah, that would be cool.

I actually programmed the Ambient lighting into one of my shortcut buttons so I can change it real quick

[KillerKhan]

At last, I could find a couple of hours in the dark to do some tests ... fitting everything to find some time is always a mess.

I haven't never fully liked the standard color combinations:
- the white is way too pure white (the plain #FFFFFF isn't used long since as too cold and simple)
- green and lilac have no reason to be, being completely out of any BMW tradition (they better look in the Alpina palette)
- the intensity is still quite low, especially in the door pockets (and in the bottle compartment the LED is also placed in a very stupid position)
- there is no way to visually coordinate the M colors (hellblau GLASURIT-BMW 5002 "Bayerisch blau", violet GLASURIT-BMW 4000, rot GLASURIT-BMW 353 "Texaco red").

However in the end the result is this:
- main lighting in red ///M (#F11A22, recalibrated to #FF0A0A to compensate the Hella RGB LEDs... reliable but a little German in the color profiles)
- footwells in blue/purple ///M (I kept the #0020FE of the standard profiles because the #2B115A turns to be very dark, almost invisible ... maybe you can work a little more to find a compromise)
- handles, pockets and door bottle holders in light blue ///M (#0080FE although the original recipe says # 0080C9)
- bronze yellow ceiling lights (the standard #D76E14 is perfect, having a ΔE* as far from the climate / button lighting orange as the bmw red)

All this while working in 360A/LIC_LCI_COLOR_LIBRARY_DATA.
Unfortunately, the pics do not show well the actual tones, even cause the dark parts (door panels, carpets) do not reflect much... and having shot with the S9 which is not much in the color rendering in the dark.
However you can have a glance.





Then, as a sporty option, I made an all-red, darker than all-orange (already in the standard profiles) just enough to make it different from the buttons lighting albeit coordinated... just by touching a bit the 360D/LIC_LCI_COLOR_PROFILES_DATA

[Punkwrock]

Originally Posted by SunsetSleeper

same here...I just say Hey BMW change ambient lighting to ..........Blue!!

Does voice command work with ambient lighting!?

[arentz07]

So my wife and I finally got around to creating a separate profile for her. We'd been using a combo of one for me and the "Guest" profile this whole time. When I created this profile, the ambient light defaulted to Bronze. Interesting!

So I guess this implies someone else test-drove the car before us and selected Blue. Or, the color is random. OR, it simply chose a different color from the other profiles.

[KillerKhan]

Originally Posted by arentz07

So my wife and I finally got around to creating a separate profile for her. We'd been using a combo of one for me and the "Guest" profile this whole time. When I created this profile, the ambient light defaulted to Bronze. Interesting!

So I guess this implies someone else test-drove the car before us and selected Blue. Or, the color is random. OR, it simply chose a different color from the other profiles.

Bronze is the color #00 in the color list so it is the default color for a new profile (or after a reset)

[RigaTony1982]

Based on what wrickem mentioned above, I guess the default is bronze. I was incorrect.

[KillerKhan]

Originally Posted by Punkwrock

Does voice command work with ambient lighting!?

Sure they do
Hallo BMW... set color green (with white border)

[PrinceM340]

Lilac since I got the car
I sometimes switch it but within a few minutes always go back to purple