Hi Guys

Been out tonight in the dark with the lights switch in the auto position. I'm driving on twisty B roads, with the lights on full beam, a vehicle approaches and I'm waiting for my car to switch to dip automatically..... it doesn't and I have to do it before I blind the guy coming the other way. I switch to full beam again, this time I catch a vehicle up in front, it doesn't detect the tail lights, again I have to dip manually.

I turn around in the car park of a local town to come home. The lights are on dip at this point, after clearing the street lights full beam switches on automatically until a car comes the other way and they dip.... no problem for the rest of the journey home.

Am I missing something here, do I have to have the light stalk in a certain position or what. Do I have a problem!

 

Regards

13 minutes ago, benterrier said:

Hi Guys

Been out tonight in the dark with the lights switch in the auto position. I'm driving on twisty B roads, with the lights on full beam, a vehicle approaches and I'm waiting for my car to switch to dip automatically..... it doesn't and I have to do it before I blind the guy coming the other way. I switch to full beam again, this time I catch a vehicle up in front, it doesn't detect the tail lights, again I have to dip manually.

I turn around in the car park of a local town to come home. The lights are on dip at this point, after clearing the street lights full beam switches on automatically until a car comes the other way and they dip.... no problem for the rest of the journey home.

Am I missing something here, do I have to have the light stalk in a certain position or what. Do I have a problem!

 

Regards

 

 

Make sure the full beam symbol in the maxidot has the "A" symbol in it.

Make sure the light assist feature is turned on in the radio settings  

Hi Guys

Just been out and tried your suggestion Logiclee. Yes the beam symbol with the A letter inside was on the maxidot display. On leaving earlier I must have used the light stalk to switch on high beam, I saw the blue hi beam light on, Doing this I suppose I overrode the auto function..

Thanks for that speedy reply Logiclee and SashaGrace for your comment.

 

Thanks again Briskoda forums

The lower spec HBA camera is a little dim witted, it takes time to trust the system. I’ve tweaked mine to work how I like because I have the tools to do it and the larger A5 lane assist camera on my car.

I'm slowly getting to grips with all the toys. Found out tonight if I leave the light switch on Auto the coming/leaving home lights work. Moving from a 15 plate Passat S I never had such luxuries. Mind you my 2002 Elegance I'm still running put that in the shade for toys.

1 hour ago, SashaGrace said:

The lower spec HBA camera is a little dim witted, it takes time to trust the system. I’ve tweaked mine to work how I like because I have the tools to do it and the larger A5 lane assist camera on my car.

 

Been thinking about this recently. If you spec HBA on a factory order and the car is going to come with Lane assist as well, will they fit the lower spec camera too for the HBA or would they just turn the feature on and use the lane assist camera like we can do with VCDS or ODB11. If Lane Assist is a better spec camera then you would assume that the HBA feature is going to work better with that camera too.

11 hours ago, hatchy said:

 

Been thinking about this recently. If you spec HBA on a factory order and the car is going to come with Lane assist as well, will they fit the lower spec camera too for the HBA or would they just turn the feature on and use the lane assist camera like we can do with VCDS or ODB11. If Lane Assist is a better spec camera then you would assume that the HBA feature is going to work better with that camera too.

 

You will either get one camera.

- HBA only will get a lowline camera.

- Lane assist or traffic sign assist will get a highline camera.

 

In the latter case, HBA will just be coding changes. This can either be done at the factory as an option or using VCDS for free

I still feel people are missing a very important word in "HBA" - assist.

There is no way this system can just be left alone to do it's own thing, it needs a driver to be aware of the situation and if necessary, dipping the lights before the automated system kicks in.

I've had situations where:

 

Twisting road with oncoming traffic, lights dim, lights go back to full despite oncoming traffic just being on a different "twist" to me.

Lights dimming because of a very bright light on top of a building, then going back full beam once passed that, but oncoming traffic, where it then quickly dipped again.

Cars in the distance, but obviously too far in the distance for the system to register.

 

I've also been driving and can see that as I turn a corner I will be facing traffic, so I dip them myself - it's only polite and it eliminates any dazzling of other drivers.

It's a good system, it does work and I can complete journeys without once manually getting involved, but you should be prepared to override.

HBA totally fails to meet my requirements so I just switch the lamps to ON.

 

Don’t need the Coming and Going feature.

I find the HBA system remarkably effective. I have the low spec camera but it works very well. It dips well in time for oncoming traffic, reacts very quickly to red lights and is not confused by house lights or reflective signs. It also works with single track vehicles, like motorbikes. The only time I may have to override it is on a dual carriageway where there is a crash barrier on the central reservation. That hides the oncoming car's lights and so the system does not dip occasionally, but it is simple to flick the switch in that case. I have lowered the operational speeds as the original speed was too high for driving fairly slowly on dark twisty roads.

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1 hour ago, Paulius55 said:

I find the HBA system remarkably effective. I have the low spec camera but it works very well. It dips will in time for oncoming traffic, reacts very quickly to red lights and is not confused by house lights or reflective signs. It can also works with single track vehicles, like motorbikes. The only time I may have to override it is on a dual carriageway where there is a crash barrier on the central reservation. That hides the oncoming car's lights and so the system does not dip occasionally, but it is simple to flick the switch in that case. I have lowered the operational speeds as the original speed was too high for driving fairly slowly on dark twisty roads.

 

I've found it great too. Reducing the speed at which it kicks in is on my list when I get a minute to try out OBDEleven. 

On 18/03/2019 at 15:52, uchuff said:

Reducing the speed at which it kicks in is on my list when I get a minute to try out OBDEleven

If anyone can point me in the right direction for where to do this in VCDS I'd be extremely grateful!

4 minutes ago, z1ts said:

If anyone can point me in the right direction for where to do this in VCDS I'd be extremely grateful!

 

It'll probably be in the adaption channels of the camera. Should be pretty obvious which ones do the speed but remember that not all cameras allow these changes

 

2 hours ago, z1ts said:

If anyone can point me in the right direction for where to do this in VCDS I'd be extremely grateful!

If you have the low spec camera at address 20 these are the adaptation channels you need to change:

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IDE03885-Speed threshold for high beam recommendation off,28 km/h
IDE03886-Activation speed for high beam assistant,58 km/h