Exciting Brake Dust content and irritating Panel lights

[Edmund Dorf]

I noticed the rear wheels of my A110 are caked in brake dust, more so than the fronts. Even after a simple motorway drive with no spirited driving at all. Should this be considered normal on the A110? On other cars, there is more brake dust on the front wheels which seems logical to me as the brake bias is to the front.

One other thing that bugs me: The panel lights always switch to "night mode" during the day, especially in bright sunshine. After restarting the car they are back to normal, later they switch again to night mode which is difficult to read in daylight. Anyone else have this?

[johnnyreggae]

Over-sensitive night mode has been mentioned before without any mitigating solution

[biggles330d]

I think the brake dust is normal. Mine is the same, lots on the rears and seemingly quite a lot even without using them hard.

The irritation for me on the night mode is that the sat nav screen dims, so on a dull Scottish day you can find the screen unreadable! Not the end of the world though. The rest of the car is great.

[RikkertBiemans]

Cant you fix the night mode thingy by just turning the lights from auto to manual (off or on)?

[Edmund Dorf]

Thanks to all for the replies. Sounds as if it's a feature, not a bug.

@RikkertBiemans: No, switching to manual lights does not change it. Only thing you can do is stop, switch off the engine and re-start.
A bit annoying but not the end of the world, as said above.

Edited by Edmund Dorf on Wednesday 23 August 13:23

[7en]

Could the rear brakes be the electronic braking 'nibbing' system kicking in?

At motorway speeds even on long corners it could start kicking in.

[LE62NDE]

My car has just had its first service: with 8000 miles on the clock, front pads are down 15%, rears 10%.