triumph7 said:

Is it me, or is the blue main beam light as bright as a laser? Drove my new panda in the dark for the 1st time last night and basically had to stick to dip beam due to the excessive brightness of the main beam light in the rev counter... . time for some black tape I think!

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triumph7 said:

Oh god really? Its sooooo off-putting bordering on dangerous.....

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babbo_umbro said:

but that bloody "Shift" light will have to go somehow.

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jrkitching said:

If you ever get into serious ecodriving you'll hardly ever see it .

The idea is to have changed up before the shift light comes on - if you wait until it illuminates, you've already missed the optimum change point for best economy.

But in fairness to the 99% of drivers who drive in, er, shall we say a more 'normal' way, IMO Fiat ought to make it possible to disable the shift light through the menu system. I don't think it's right for car makers to try to tell us how we should be driving. You earned the money, you paid for the fuel, so why should Nanny Fiat keep nagging you about how you're choosing to use it?

Those who find it useful could always leave it turned on.

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babbo_umbro said:

I'm learning to ignore the Shift light now, other than as a joke - you're going up a steepish hill and just about to change down and it's suggesting you change up. Its shift points are just crazy, especially when you're running the car in for its first few thousand miles and don't want the engine to labour.

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