I was a guilty driver when I first had a car with switchable running lights (Alfa). There was no information in the manual explaining their use and did not say that though the front lights were on the rears were not. In dusky conditions I was happily driving along and wondering why I was being flashed ... as far as I knew my lights were on ... but of course I subsequently discovered they weren't! Embarrassing and dangerous.
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Headlights on during day
- Thread starter Chewie
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I was a guilty driver when I first had a car with switchable running lights (Alfa). There was no information in the manual explaining their use and did not say that though the front lights were on the rears were not. In dusky conditions I was happily driving along and wondering why I was being flashed ... as far as I knew my lights were on ... but of course I subsequently discovered they weren't! Embarrassing and dangerous.
On M40 driving south in bright sunlight yesterday at noon, I noticed that the car icon on the IC had headlights on. Have not seen this before. Lights were set to auto. 2020.32.5. I don't know if the lights were actually on, dipped or full beam. Apologies for fuzzy image from passenger's phone.
I happened again this morning, again in bright sunlight, after update to 2030.36.11 overnight. Feature of fault?
Did you use the windscreen washers? That turns the headlights on.
Glan gluaisne
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Thanks for that little snippet, it's solved something that's been puzzling me for a couple of days. During a drive last week, in bright sunshine, I spotted that the headlights had suddenly switched on (saw the reflection clearly in a road sign). At the time I thought it was just a glitch in the headlight switching, from a shadow or something, but I'm pretty sure I was also trying to clean dead flies off the windscreen at the time.