Auto Headlight On Question
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Melting Slicks
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Auto Headlight On Question
If this is in the manual I can't seem to find it. I will feel really stupid if I missed it. In any case, I am wondering if there is a way to adjust how dark it has to be outside to turn on the auto headlights. Mine seems to require more darkness than I prefer. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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If this is in the manual I can't seem to find it. I will feel really stupid if I missed it. In any case, I am wondering if there is a way to adjust how dark it has to be outside to turn on the auto headlights. Mine seems to require more darkness than I prefer. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
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Haven’t heard of any adjustment - sometimes it would be useful if there was some kind of adjustment available..
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If this is in the manual I can't seem to find it. I will feel really stupid if I missed it. In any case, I am wondering if there is a way to adjust how dark it has to be outside to turn on the auto headlights. Mine seems to require more darkness than I prefer. Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Something you could try to get the headlights to automatically turn on sooner is to tape tinted plastic film over the sensor. For example, some food wraps that come on rolls are tinted. I remember people doing that on other cars that didn't have sensitivity adjustments for auto headlights.
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mine also are on even in the middle of a sunny day sometimes when in auto
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Supposedly the headlight sensor is particularly sensitive (though accounts here seem to confirm and contradict that). Most people complain the headlights are on too much, and this can be from any shadow, like a radar sensor behind the mirror, trees, etc., being cast over the light sensor. Conti's mechanic just discussed this in a video that came out this morning.
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Seen the other post with same issues and seems to be a good many already having the same issue. Something in a software update or was a batch. Might be good if in the other thread (seems to be more posted in there) to start investigation with date built of last 5 of Vin number. See if some pattern stands out because in the other thread the 2020's have not seen this issue or noticed it (if software related in newer update).
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Must be something with the sensor then. I noticed yesterday full sun the lights came on went into shade area while driving down the road and they went off so almost opposite. Yet I did not notice it to do the same thing later on. So it seems that it is not consistent reading the LUX.
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Well, this thread seems to have gone off track from the original question I asked. I was specifically referring to a sensitivity adjustment for the auto control of lights turning on. My lights work fine - go on and off as they are supposed to. Many of you are complaining about the lights staying on all the time. This is not related to the question I had. 
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Well, this thread seems to have gone off track from the original question I asked. I was specifically referring to a sensitivity adjustment for the auto control of lights turning on. My lights work fine - go on and off as they are supposed to. Many of you are complaining about the lights staying on all the time. This is not related to the question I had.