I'm currently our of town, and will be so for several months. With that said, my wife told me today that when she pushes the lever forward for the high beams that nothing happens, but when she pulls it to the rear (as if she were only flashing the high beams) they work fine.

I was wondering if anyone has had this issue before and what the fix was. I figured I could either order parts while i'm away or start doing a lot of homework to find possible issues/fixes.

Thanks in advance,

Q.

 

Pretty sure thats how its supposed to work, at least on my 2012.

Pull toward you, to get HI beam.


Push away, I think, is only in HI mode why you hold it in that position.

 

hmm... mine has always worked the following way since I bought it:

Push lever away from you: high beams come on and stay on with the lever staying in the forward position

Pull lever towards you: high beams come on and the turn off as the lever returns to its original position automatically.

 

I gotta check ............ pretty sure my Fords (F-150, Explorer) work one way and my Nissans (Sentra, Altima) are the opposite.


Where's my owner's manual now that I need it ?

 

Very interesting, I just had to look up some different year manuals. Looks like in 2010, pushing the lever away turned on the highs, and in 2011+, they changed it to pulling towards you past the detent.

Wish I could help more on your problem, just wanted to address the difference in high beam activation on different year trucks before someone else chimed in.

 

no worries, but thanks for clearing up the confusion.

 

my 2012Fx4 works this way too. with that said my 2002 F150XLT works the other way..push to hi beam. sorta weird as only car I ever had like that.

 

My hi-beam switch is on the floor.

 

oh the good old days...not that i'm old enough to remember much of that time period!

 

To add more confusion to the mix, my 2013 Ecoboost SCrew FX4 switches beams when you pull back past the detent for both high and low beams. My 2014 3.7 ExCab STX work truck switches to high beam when you push forward and low beam when you pull back. Switching vehicles between weekdays and weekends always screws me up.

(Also, the cruise control buttons are the two bottom left buttons on the steering wheel on my '13, and the top two left buttons on the '14, again, screwing me up)

Edit: Survey results show that my co-workers vehicles are as follows:
2014 3.7 ExCab STX: Push-pull
2013 Ecoboost SCrew XL: Pull-pull
2012 Ecoboost SCrew XL: Pull-pull