focus diesel dash lights adjustment

[pugdriver]

Hi

I'm currently on holidays in New Zealand. The rental car is a 2007 petrol manual Focus hatch, base model. Lovely car.
The NZ cars are German assembled, so aren't precisely the same as Aussie models, which come from South Africa.

The car I'm driving has no adjustment for the brightness of the dashboard lights, the speedo / tacho is way too bright for me and I find it dazzling. I have searched online and there are several complaints from UK websites that they indeed have no brightness adjustment for the dash lights.
Of course there is no owners manual in the car.

The dash on this car has the earlier dials (equiv to LS LT in Aussie) without the silver grey shroud around the dials. but has the red trip computer (like LV and LV2).
In the menu I can go to settings and the only setting available is steering - sport / normal / comfort.
I can't find any other settings and when I get into the steering settings I can change settings but can't seem to get out - every thing I try results in toggling between sport/normal/comfort but nothing confirms that setting and goes back to menu or progresses through the menu.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a dash brightness setting here somewhere?

Do the Australian (SouthAfrican) DIESEL LV Mk2 cars have a dash lights brightness adjustment? I'm looking at buying one when we get back to Australia. But it would want to have the adjustment... this display is bloody awful, way too bright.

I can't believe Ford would be so miserable as to delete this adjustment. Our Mk1 Cortina when I was a kid had it.

Still, our 99 Barina - the interior light only works on the front doors, not the back doors, there is no switch on the back doors - the GM and Ford ba$tards cut corners, no wonder people buy Jap or Korean...