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Ford Auto Headlight Disco Strobe Light
The current High Beam Headlights have a feature when it is turned on senses headlights from oncoming traffic or red tail lights, this feature automatically turns off the high beam on your vehicle. Then the high beam turns back on after the detector loses the light from other vehicles from either the one in front of you or across the oncoming lane.
The problem is there is no delay on there, the on sequence or off sequence or on then off then on then off then on so the effect is a disco ball strobe light. On then Off then On then Off for miles, I really noticed this on I-25 while driving thru the Raton Pass. it is a 7,834 ft. elevation mountain pass on the Colorado–New Mexico border. It was under construction so they narrowed the lanes and removed the pull-off lane . There is a concrete barrier between north and southbound lanes and the road hugs the mountain as you drive down the interstate. The combination of headlights and red tail lights drove the sensor into overdrive. I didn’t take the stopwatch out and time it, but it felt like we went from high beams to low beams once every sec. Up to then, they worked great, in a dark cab driving 65 to 70 with lots of semi and vehicle traffic is a terrible time to figure out which **** controls that feature, the default is that it comes on when the auto headlight turns on when it gets dark enough to turn on the headlights. I found the round **** that turns the headlights off or just have the running light on while driving at 65 mph in heavy traffic. But as soon as the headlights were back on the flashing continued just like before. Later I looked at the online 666 page manual and there were no clear steps to turn that feature on or off as you were driving down the road.
What I asked Ford to do is program the computer that runs this feature and put a time delay on turning the high beams back on after it went to the low beam. A 3 or 5 sec delay that prevents the high beam to pop back on after the microprocessor turns the headlight down to the low beam setting due to oncoming traffic or the detection of red tail lights. This delay in going back to the high beam headlights will stop the disco ball effect as you drive down the road. So that delay will be there every time the sensor detects headlights or red tail light and stays in the low beam mode.
The problem is there is no delay on there, the on sequence or off sequence or on then off then on then off then on so the effect is a disco ball strobe light. On then Off then On then Off for miles, I really noticed this on I-25 while driving thru the Raton Pass. it is a 7,834 ft. elevation mountain pass on the Colorado–New Mexico border. It was under construction so they narrowed the lanes and removed the pull-off lane . There is a concrete barrier between north and southbound lanes and the road hugs the mountain as you drive down the interstate. The combination of headlights and red tail lights drove the sensor into overdrive. I didn’t take the stopwatch out and time it, but it felt like we went from high beams to low beams once every sec. Up to then, they worked great, in a dark cab driving 65 to 70 with lots of semi and vehicle traffic is a terrible time to figure out which **** controls that feature, the default is that it comes on when the auto headlight turns on when it gets dark enough to turn on the headlights. I found the round **** that turns the headlights off or just have the running light on while driving at 65 mph in heavy traffic. But as soon as the headlights were back on the flashing continued just like before. Later I looked at the online 666 page manual and there were no clear steps to turn that feature on or off as you were driving down the road.
What I asked Ford to do is program the computer that runs this feature and put a time delay on turning the high beams back on after it went to the low beam. A 3 or 5 sec delay that prevents the high beam to pop back on after the microprocessor turns the headlight down to the low beam setting due to oncoming traffic or the detection of red tail lights. This delay in going back to the high beam headlights will stop the disco ball effect as you drive down the road. So that delay will be there every time the sensor detects headlights or red tail light and stays in the low beam mode.
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