I bought this thing back in March and I am ashamed to admit I've only driven at night a couple times. Tonight I went to go flip on the heated seats and steering wheel and realized I couldn't see what I was doing. and had to flip on the map lights. The orange lights come on when the heated seats are on, but don't the symbols on the buttons themselves light up? Am I missing something?

 

Annndddd I feel dumb. I just went to check the headlight switch and it wasn't in the "Auto" position. I drove 3/4 of a mile home tonight with it on "Off."

 

IIRC, from my own 2016 CX5, the intensity (visibility) of the accessory lighting also depends on whether you've cranked-up (or -down) the illumination intensity dial. I'll check it again early this morning when I head out, but I think that if you dim the brightness down on the illumination dial then those accessory lights also dim. Certainly does the tach/odo, but I'm pretty sure it can also completely turn off those accessory lights if you dial it back enough.

 

We've all been there. ;-)