Adaptive LED headlights

[Roadster_Robbie]

If it’s got ALH it won’t have AFS as well, the function of the AFS is incorporated in With the ALH.

[paulcroft]

@SB19

Hi guys hope you can help. I have just collected a 2.0l RF Sport Nav+ with safety pack and can’t figure out whether the Adaptive Front Lighting System (AFS) is working. Its got the Adaptive LED Headlights (ALH) which activates the high beam, but the lights don’t appear to corner. Due to a paint defect, last week I had my dealers demonstrator Sport Nav+ and the cornering lights worked fine so I would hope that I’m not being daft and just not realizing its on.

I have searched through the settings and can turn the ALH on and off, the owners manual indicates I should be able to do that with AFS? Could anyone confirm if there is a setting somewhere in the depths of the infotainment system and if so the path to it?

As I read the spec, if you add the safety pack this adds ALH at the expense of AFS.  So you lose the lights which appear to turn as you turn the steering wheel (but in practice add virtually nothing to visibility at night) and, instead, gain a system which, on unlit roads, turns a powerful extra light on, either to the nearside or offside as you enter unlit left hand or right hand bends and adds genuinely useful extra illumination into dark areas.

HTH

[SB19]

Thanks guys. Can’t help feeling this needs to be made clearer in the literature.

[NickD]

How quickly does this technology react and can you still manually dip the lights in the normal way? 

My normal route to and from work involves rural A roads, B roads and then typical suburban roads. They all have bends in. 

What has noticeably increased is the number of vehicles that no longer dip their lights in advance of a car coming into view. We all know the situation, you can see the oncoming vehicle’s light pattern ahead of a bend and dip before they actually come into view. It is noticeable now the increasing pattern of lights dipping after initially coming into view. On the A roads it is less worrying as the separation distance is generally much greater. However on the B roads it is far more of a hazard as the vehicle comes round a bend less than 50 yards away with the full Eddison Rock effect. Of course there are instances where this happens without notice but in the vast majority of cases you do have forewarning that something is coming the other way and can, by the old fashioned method, dip lights ahead of time.

The same is true if I am walking, the number of cars that no longer dip lights has noticabbly increased. 

[Drumtochty]

I’m guily of not dipping my headlights to be honest and I have to sort that. I find on my GT+ the headlights do all sorts of clever stuff but do not auto dip.

Therefore, I just have to get better at dipping my lights.

[Roadster_Robbie]

You can manually dip the headlamps and override the ALH and HBC systems.