So, I recently had cornering front fog lights enabled on my MY18 FL O3 Scout. They work fine.

However I think I should also have dynamic cornering headlights (which sweep across a corner, lighting up the turn as you go). I can't say that I've seen this in action, despite the appropriate box being ticked on the car settings. Would the cornering fog light setting interfere with this? Is there any way to verify correct operation of the dynamic cornering light function?

Shouldn't interfere, I see both work in my car. Cornering works on low speeds, and main lights work if you go faster. But they also seem to move up, down, wider, narrower, depending on the speed, road and weather conditions. Interesting setup, I personally like it, smart and useful.

 

Play around going straight on wide and safe road, and play with your steering wheel left - right, like you are changing lanes. You should see clearly how you light array dances from left to right and versa.

37 minutes ago, nidza said:

Shouldn't interfere, I see both work in my car. Cornering works on low speeds, and main lights work if you go faster. But they also seem to move up, down, wider, narrower, depending on the speed, road and weather conditions. Interesting setup, I personally like it, smart and useful.

 

Play around going straight on wide and safe road, and play with your steering wheel left - right, like you are changing lanes. You should see clearly how you light array dances from left to right and versa.

 

The bendy headlights only bend in Auto mode and bend even more in Sport

 

Edited 6 November, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

On mine, you can see the main headlights move when you are stationary also. Just park a few metres away from a wall & turn the steering wheel from left to right.
Its also fairly clear when its working if you are driving down a curved motorway sliproad (but I guess there arent as many of those in the UK as here on the continent)...

This is a bit safer than weaving left & right on a straight road ;-)

47 minutes ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

The bendy headlights only bend in Auto mode and bend even more in Sport

 

 

They seem to bend in 4/5 modes. Not moving only in Eco (power saving or what, who knows).

 

You should definitely be able to see the light moving when turning the wheel if it's dark. Check you're on auto on the headlight switch and put it in sport to further exaggerate the headlight movement and you should be able to see it.

Ah, might be due to ECO mode. Will try it on my way home this evening. Thanks for the advice!

16 minutes ago, wg100 said:

Ah, might be due to ECO mode. Will try it on my way home this evening. Thanks for the advice!

 

Eco mode definitely disables it

Ok, I'm sitting in the car now. Have selected sport mode but nothing happens with the headlights. The cornering fogs come on as the steering wheel turns, but the headlights are rock steady.

V. Confused.

Edited 6 November, 20178 yr by wg100

What kind of headlights do you have?  LED, Xenon or halogen?

 

My new SE-L has LED which you can see slightly brighten at the edges when cornering up to around 40mph (although if you are sitting at say 30mph for a short while, the 'cornering lights' come on anyway to widen the light output for seeing footpaths etc better)

 

My old Elegance with Xenons would physically move (and did a 'dance' when first turned on' up down, and left right).  This you could see moving if you gently swerve left to right when your driving relatively slowly

 

It will only move when you are driving as well, not when you are sat still (i believe)

 

If you want to keep driving ECO styley, just use the 'Individual' setting and set what you want to ECO and set cornering lights to Normal or Sport

Edited 6 November, 20178 yr by Rob123

Xenon lights installed. Nothing happens whilst driving in any of the modes. Is there a way to reset the headlights? I've tried resetting to factory settings via the car settings menu, but no joy.

1 hour ago, ahenners said:

 

Eco mode definitely disables it

 

A Vrs shouldn't have Eco Mode It should have:-

 

Silly mode, Extra silly mode, Ultra silly mode, Extreme ultra silly mode............ and Individual Extreme Ultra silly mode.

 

 

Edited 6 November, 20178 yr by Auric Goldfinger

Just now, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

A Vrs shouldn't have Eco Mode It should have:-

 

Silly mode, Extra silly mode, Ultra silly mode, Extreme ultra silly mode............ 

 

Agreed, I'm not even sure it makes much of a difference anyway. Leave mine in Sport 

3 minutes ago, Auric Goldfinger said:

 

A Vrs shouldn't have Eco Mode It should have:-

 

Silly mode, Extra silly mode, Ultra silly mode, Extreme ultra silly mode............ and Individual Extreme Ultra silly mode.

Nice try, but you're confusing it with a Tesla.

3 minutes ago, ahenners said:

 

Agreed, I'm not even sure it makes much of a difference anyway. Leave mine in Sport 

 

Mines stuck in sport,

Is this likely to require a trip to a dealer, or is it something someone with VCDS could sort out?

Do the headlights make initialization when you start the car up?

 

This is aftermarket for O2, but doesn't matter as an example. O3 does the same, just A LOT faster:

 

It does the up,and down, but not left to right swivel.

 

Also noticed that the driving on left/right option doesn't appear to make any discernible difference to the beam pattern.

Edited 7 November, 20178 yr by wg100

I wonder why doesn't it write some error on the dashboard? Maybe the system is not aware headlights are not moving over horizontal axis?

 

Definitely to be checked in the service. I think it will do the initialization even if it is switched off in the menus.

 

I think the amount of headlight movement is determined by the speed you are moving. Not sure they will move if the car is stationary.

13 minutes ago, WayTooTall said:

I think the amount of headlight movement is determined by the speed you are moving. Not sure they will move if the car is stationary.

 

I'm not getting the full start up sequence as per the video above. The beams sweep vertically but not left/right. Have booked in for it to be looked at.

I don't think my beams do that on initialise. My beams don't move left and right, but the beam pattern does widen and narrow.

 

Will double check on mine tonight.

 

 

9 minutes ago, WayTooTall said:

I don't think my beams do that on initialise. My beams don't move left and right, but the beam pattern does widen and narrow.

 

Will double check on mine tonight.

 

 

Either way, the beam is unmoving whilst going around corners at night ☹️

Octy F/L has LED, these lights do not "steer" like the Xenon's do (I had a Yeti prior to F/L Vrs octy). I presume it's because the beam spread is much wider than Xenon's. The octy certainly lights up the side of road more than the yeti's Xenon's did.

The FL Octavia LEDs (which I’ve assumed we’re talking about) don’t swivel like the pre-FL xenons. The beam pattern does changes though, using some other magic.