Interior Lighting: Overview

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The interior lighting system includes:

An approach lamp in each door mirror
Two footwell lamps for the passenger and driver
Glovebox lamp
Interior lamps in the front and rear overhead consoles
Two vanity mirror lamps in the sun visors
Interior door handle ambience lighting Light Emitting Diodes (LED) (4 off)
Door armrest ambience lighting LED (4 off)
Door pocket ambience lighting LED (4 off) - if fitted
Ambience lighting LED in the floor console
Luggage compartment lamp
Front and rear footwell ambience lighting LED (4 off)
Treadplate illumination LED.

All of the interior lamps are controlled by the Body Control Module/Gateway Module (BCM/GWM) assembly.

The approach lamps, interior lamp, footwell lamps and rear interior lamps provide interior lighting, which operates automatically. The BCM/GWM assembly operates these lamps simultaneously when the vehicle is locked and unlocked, the doors open and close, the start/stop switch is pressed and the interior lamp is selected on and off.

The BCM/GWM assembly operates the luggage compartment lamp automatically when the luggage compartment lid is opened and closed.

The ambience lighting LED's in the floor console, on each door, footwell ambience lighting LED and in the luggage compartment operate with the interior lighting and with selection of the side lamps and headlamps. The following variants of ambience lighting are available depending on market and model specification:

Strong phosphor
True red
True white
True blue
Amber
Orange
Magenta
Lime green
Moonlight white
Daylight white.

The glovebox illumination lamp operates automatically when the glovebox door is opened or closed. The side lamps or headlamps do not need to be selected for the glovebox illumination lamp to operate.

The approach lamps are selected on and off by their related door module, in response to a High Speed (HS) Controller Area Network (CAN) body systems bus signal from the BCM/GWM assembly.