During that delay, your instrument panel clustermay not be as bright as usual. Make sureyour instrument panel brightness control is in fullbright position. See Instrument Panel Brightnesson page 170 for more information.You can idle the vehicle with the lamps off, evenwhen it is dark outside. After starting thevehicle, turn the exterior lamp control band to off,then release it. The lamps will remain off untilyou turn the control band to off again.Twilight Sentinel® also provides exteriorillumination as you leave the vehicle. If TwilightSentinel® has turned on the lamps when you turnoff the ignition, your lamps will remain on until:• The exterior lamp switch is moved from OFF tothe parking lamp position, or• a delay time that you select has elapsed.See Driver Information Center (DIC) on page 203to select the delay time that you want. Youcan also select no delay time.If you turn off the ignition with the exterior lampswitch in the parking lamp or headlamp position, theTwilight Sentinel® delay will not occur. The lampswill turn off as soon as the switch is turned off.As with any vehicle, you should turn on the regularheadlamp system when you need it.Exterior Lighting Battery SaverIf the manual parking lamps or headlamps havebeen left on, the exterior lamps will turn off as soonas the ignition is turned off or RAP is active.This protects against draining the battery in caseyou have accidentally left the headlamps orparking lamps on. The battery saver does not workif the headlamps are turned on after the ignitionswitch is turned to off.If you need to leave the lamps on, use the exteriorlamp control to turn the lamps back on.169
