In article <9zvKc.32709$vO1.155230@nnrp1.uunet.ca>,
"Brian Smith" <Halifax@NovaScotia.Canada> wrote:

> >3. No interior light sensor to adjust dash lights brighter when headlights
> on during daylight (overcast, >rain, etc.).
>
> This is something that I don't believe Honda will ever do anything about. I
> found it a nuisance annoyance back in '79 with my first Accord (but, then
> reaching forward and turning the dash lighting control up, solved that
> problem).

But the 04 is way, way different than anything before it with respect to
the dash lighting. In a normal car, in daylight conditions where you'd
want the headlights on, it doesn't matter--because the dash lights
aren't required to see the instruments. You don't even know they're on,
quite frankly.

But in the 03 and up Accord, the dash is black until the car comes on.
When you turn the headlights on, the car ASSUMES--that's a bad
thing--that it's nighttime out, and so it automatically lowers the
REQUIRED instrument lighting a good deal.

The car has no way to accommodate those situations where it's not really
dark out and the dash lights SHOULDN'T be down that far as if it were
dark out.

In other words, the car should have a small light sensor on it to guide
the behavior of the REQUIRED instrument backlighting, such that the
instruments are still visible in the daylight even though you may have
CHOSEN to turn the headlights on.

Either you're just not getting it, or you're out to cause an argument.