You need to press the switch on the other side
Should be Page 24 of your manual, but I don't know the page number for the US Manual
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There are no such buttons on my console. There's just empty plastic in their place.
US Spec must have struck again then. Do you have a manual? US Manual is available online if not
The car was provided with the manual, but there's nothing in it about the overhead console. Only the Owner's Information DVD contains the info about it, and it shows that there are no extra buttons, just left and right switches.
Us dealer's are probably far more used to modifying parts of cars seeing as they are a lot more relaxed with the laws on changing parts then we are in Europe