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.

 

[Logan T]

The biggest annoyance for me is the lights constantly deciding to come on, and stay on, during bright days and sunshine.

 

[Martinonline]

Lights coming on in sunshine and bright days was fixed for me with SC007UK update. There is a thread about this back in 2023.

 

[MG Clive]

The biggest annoyance for me is the lights constantly deciding to come on, and stay on, during bright days and sunshine.

Mine come on if I go under a bridge, but they go off again on the other side, I'm sure oncoming traffic must think I'm flashing them.

 

[andyverran]

Mine come on if I go under a bridge, but they go off again on the other side, I'm sure oncoming traffic must think I'm flashing them.

Many brands do this, i think many/most people now realise its automation.

I just wish they came on with the wipers, since its required to have them on when its raining, but that seems to have been missed.

 

[DBedford]

Many brands do this, i think many/most people now realise its automation.

I just wish they came on with the wipers, since its required to have them on when its raining, but that seems to have been missed.

The trouble is that having the headlights come on when ever the wipers are used, is that you could use the wipers just to clear the screen with one or two passes. As a result appear to be flashing on-coming vehicles for no reason at all, and thereby introduce an additional hazard!!

 

[Wildthing]

I had a habit of flicking on to high beam with the back of my fingers - wow what a mistaka to maker, I manged (twice now) to catch the tiny switch and turn off the lights off because I had it set on manual lighting which put us straight into the dark on unlit country roads which frightened the pants off us. Beware if you pickup that habit, it's easy to do!

 

[andyverran]

The trouble is that having the headlights come on when ever the wipers are used, is that you could use the wipers just to clear the screen with one or two passes. As a result appear to be flashing on-coming vehicles for no reason at all, and thereby introduce an additional hazard!!

add a min time delay and keep then on for 15 seconds, or a min wipe delay, keep them off till 4 or 5 wipes have been done.

 

[Roger001]

Many brands do this, i think many/most people now realise its automation.

I just wish they came on with the wipers, since its required to have them on when its raining, but that seems to have been missed.

That rule is very country-dependent, in the UK, the Highway Code states

Rule 226

You MUST use headlights when visibility is seriously reduced, generally when you cannot see for more than 100 metres (328 feet).

So the use of headlights is not directly linked to the use of the wiper blades.

 

[Logan T]

Lights coming on in sunshine and bright days was fixed for me with SC007UK update. There is a thread about this back in 2023.

Sc007uk is an update of which module? I presume there's no way for me to check which version i have?

 

[Martinonline]

I do not know, the update occurred at the car's first service and was combined with other changes, one of which was ACC. See the thread below (not a link).