GCAJH77

I have a 2007 Honda Civic EX and was in a car accident a few weeks ago. I had a lot of work done to repair the front of the vehicle. I got the car back 2 days ago and have been inspecting it to make sure everything is as it should be. Once driving it at night... something seems different about the interior lighting somewhere around where the speedometer, mileage gage, steering wheel, radio, and/or air conditioning controls are... I just can't put my finger on what it is exactly and I don't know if it's just because I got used to a different lighting in the rental car that I drove for 3 weeks.

The main thing I am not sure about: BEFORE, after I cranked up the car, I don't remember the lighting of everything (that was already lit before turning on the the headlights) dimming down once turning on my headlights... I thought that it stayed the same brightness even after turning on my headlights... but now it gets significantly dimmer. Can someone with this model/year civic - who has one in good condition - please tell me what happens when you turn the headlights on? Or someone with a lot of knowledge of this specific model/year civic?

The other big thing: The area that controls the air conditioning lights up so that I can see it in the dark, but no part of my radio/auxiliary/cd unit control area lights up so that I can see where it is in the dark... all I can see in the dark is the blue screen that tells what I'm presently listening to. I can't remember... should I be able to see this area (with the volume/channel knobs, saved station buttons, forward/rewind buttons, aux/cd/radio buttons, etc.) lit up?