Auto Headlights

[micknomates]

Dropping a friend off on Boxing Day after football Boxing day who lived in the sticks and driving pitch black country roads, auto dipping headlights worked perfectly every time. Empty road, full headlights. Every time approaching vehicle, automatic dipping and full when clear. First time driving for any length of time on dark country roads and pleasantly surprised.

 

[siteguru]

That reflects my usual experience ... very rarely do the main beams fail to dip, or be too slow to dip.

 

[Roger001]

They operate a bit slower than you would hope the driver of an oncoming car would manually dip their lights, but they also operate far quicker than many drivers manually dip their lights (if they bother).

The one thing that is not clear is whether there are any regulations that state how quickly a car should automatically dip its lights, or are manufacturers just making it up as they go, currently?

 

[Diggsy]

I find them inconsistent at best. Sometimes they work really well and other times they are either too slow to dip, or they go to main beam when the car in front has moved slightly around a bend in the road ahead, meaning the main beam blasts them momentarily when I negotiate the same bend!

In a previous VW I had (ICE car) you could adjust the auto lights to activate faster or slower, but there was no need as the default setting never let me down once in 4yrs. They were literally (pardon the pun) light years ahead of the MG

 

[Rolfe]

I don't use the feature because the damn car was always mistaking other things for an oncoming car (house security lights, even the reflection of its own lights from a road sign on a dark road) and leaving me without visibility. I wonder if this has been improved by an update since I first tried it in 2023.

 

[ClaretFozzy]

They work as well as on any other brand I’ve owned on my MY2025. No complaints at all.

 

[NLMGSAN]

It uses the front camera. Anything obscuring the camera will have an effect on auto high beam.