Hi all,

I'm new to this site and I've recently purchased a 2018 Superb Sportline estate in black. This is my second skoda after previously having an Octavia VRS 4x4 in Meteor grey. After having the Octavia I've fallen in love with the cars.  

Both cars have the Xenon headlights and the Octavia had the automatic headlight feature which I'm sure this one does but i can't get it to select with the light stick.  I have looked at the manual and switched off the rain headlight feature as i thought that might be stopping it but it's made no difference.  

Anyone else seen this or know hows to fix it,  am i just missing a setting? 

Many thanks

Dean

Auto (if fitted) is a setting on the rotary lights switch

I assume you haven't pulled it out (fog light light setting), as auto doesn't work with fog lights

 

In the infotainment, go into car, settings, lights, and check settings, also try car, settings, convenience functions.   Actually if you have just acquired the car, go into each setting one by one, moving through whole settings list and setting what you want, it may be an odd setting that previous user created.  

 

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by SurreyJohn

Thanks for the reply.  

 

Yes I've got the rotary switch set to Auto without the fogs pulled on. 

 

I'll take a look through the settings again as the only one i could see was the rain setting which I've removed but reading through a few other posts on here it made me wonder if the speed signal recognition could be the culprit? 

1 hour ago, Dean391 said:

Hi all,

I'm new to this site and I've recently purchased a 2018 Superb Sportline estate in black. This is my second skoda after previously having an Octavia VRS 4x4 in Meteor grey. After having the Octavia I've fallen in love with the cars.  

Both cars have the Xenon headlights and the Octavia had the automatic headlight feature which I'm sure this one does but i can't get it to select with the light stick.  I have looked at the manual and switched off the rain headlight feature as i thought that might be stopping it but it's made no difference.  

Anyone else seen this or know hows to fix it,  am i just missing a setting? 

Many thanks

Dean

Do you mean 'Light Assist' (automatic switching for low / high beam)?   If so, this might help 

 

Clarksonline, looks like i don't actually have it unfortunately.  I don't have the light assist as an option in mine but it is a different infotainment display to that one.  

@Dean391- u'll need to enable High Beam Assist (HBA) via vcds or obdeleven.

Provided ur car has the correct A5 camera, the high beams will then automatically dip when an oncoming car, or trailing behind a car is detected.

 

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by JR RS

@JR RS is there any info on how to do this as I'm not familiar with it? 

Thanks

I have exactly the same issue. I also came from an Octavia with auto-dipping (halogen) headlights and assumed that my Superb SE-L would have the same feature on it's higher spec Xenon headlights.

 

As far as I can tell I do NOT have this feature. The automatic headlights only seem to be available if you have the large "A5" camera on the windscreen in front of the rear view mirror. This is a much larger shaded area on the windscreen and has two separate locations for sensors but specifically a "triangular" cutout in the shaded area where the A5 camera is located (see photos for the different windscreen appearances) - the second photo has the A5 camera).

 

If, like me,  you have the smaller, more "rectangular" shaded area then it seems that you don't have the A5 camera therefore don't have automatic headlights. If this is the case then VCDS coding can't help.

 

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong but that seems to be the situation with my Superb.

Your confusing the terminology:

- Automatic headlights typically means the headlights will turn on when it gets dark and off when it gets light outside.

- HBA (High beam assist) will turn the main/high beams on/off when their are other cars are detected.

 

Automatic headlights do not need a camera, they use a light sensor in rear view mirror mount to detect ambient lighting conditions.

 

High beam assist does need a camera and there are two different versions.

 

The 'highline' camera lives at address A5 and is capable of lane assist, traffic sign recognition, high beam assist and proving data for SLA headlights. This is the version that lives under the triangular cut-out shown in your second image.

 

There is also a 'lowline' camera which lives at address 20 and is only capable of high beam assist. This is fitted to the rear view mirror mount as shown here:

I moved from a 2015 Octavia SEL which did have the feature to a 2017 Superb SEL which didn't.  I believe the Superb needs the adaptive lighting to have the feature. 

2 hours ago, langers2k said:

Your confusing the terminology:

- Automatic headlights typically means the headlights will turn on when it gets dark and off when it gets light outside.

- HBA (High beam assist) will turn the main/high beams on/off when their are other cars are detected.

 

You are, of course. correct. We're talking specifically here about automatically avoiding dazzling oncoming traffic when on main beam.

 

Skoda do confuse things somewhat by also using the terms "Light Assist high-beam assist" and "Dynamic Light Assist headlight assist" in the owners manual and then not providing any means of identifying which, if any, system is fitted to a particular vehicle. The difference is that the first actually dips the headlights whereas the second adjusts the light cone to avoid dazzling oncoming traffic.

 

To confuse things further there is also "Adaptive Front Light System" (AFS) which you might reasonably assume had something to do with the main beams but which is NOT mentioned anywhere in the owners manual. I think that might be something to do with changing the beam pattern for different speeds and when you turn a corner to light up that side of the road.

 

Having managed to find an old 2019 Super specification sheet I can see that the SE-L does have AFS but has neither" Light Assist" nor "Dynamic Light Assist" so no auto-dipping option for me then !

 

The 2019 Sportline specification also has AFS but doesn't have "Light Assist" or "Dynamic Light Assist" either, if that's any help ?

 

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by BOD20

I see there is also "Smart light Assist" too 

 

This is especially confusing if you purchase a vehicle second hand, since you haven't specced the vehicle originally so you won't have been through the spec sheet to see what's included. Also, its often difficult (if not impossible) to obtain a spec sheet for anything other than the current model so you can't just find the specs for your 1 or 2 year old (or older) vehicle and look that up.

 

And if you try looking online - well these features are often updated and/or renamed so you can't always be sure that the current definition of "Adaptive Front Light System" is the same as the one fitted to your older vehicle, or if it's called something completely different now.

 

I consider myself reasonably clued up about vehicle features. I'm happy to mess around with settings and can eventually understand owner's manual instructions and look things up online. I'm surprised that my 2019 Superb Estate SE-L doesn't seem to have main beams that won't dazzle oncoming vehicles (since my older Octavia SE did have them) but I cannot find any definitive information anywhere that says it should have this feature or it definitely doesn't. I suspect it doesn't.

 

And no, I don't mind dipping the headlights manually at all. It's just good to know what features your vehicle has or has not.

Edited 9 November, 20205 yr by BOD20

11 hours ago, Dean391 said:

@JR RS is there any info on how to do this as I'm not familiar with it? 

Thanks

 

you can find the coding steps in the link below.

as @BOD20said - make sure u have the windscreen camera as per the second pic (big triangle looking shape).

 

 

All,  

 

Thanks for all the help/info and apologies for the terminology confusion. Turns out I haven't got the camera so don't have the joy of that feature anymore which is a little annoying but nothing that a flick of the fingers won't sort.  

 

You can probably retrofit the Lowline camera. The Highline is trickier.