2 hours ago, StoneFist85 said:

I've spoken to my local skoda dealer and they basically told me they know nothing about it and if that's how they work it must be right. Fair enough I was chatting with women on reception and then she was forwarding it to their technicians (as if they couldn't come to speak with me directly). I'll have to go there soon when I book my car for recall and try to speak with someone more educated. 

I just love the way main dealers always claim no knowledge of any negative concern, even well documented ones - and if you push it their go to response is ‘a characteristic of the vehicle, sir’.

As for the option to speak to a so called ‘technician’, that option disappeared some 3 decades ago - can’t have anyone in customer facing situation - all face to face contact with disgruntled owners has to be carefully controlled / contained.

@Berisford   Not all Main / Franchised dealerships that have Skoda / SEAT and workshops are the same as far as Service Desk Staff, Service or Workshop managers.

There are actually places where a Master Technician might come explain things to a customer.   But then that requires there to be a Master Technician. 

Hello, I have a superb mk3 too, and I found out when I drive on the highway the left headlight turns off highbeam when the matrix is on, it’s related to this situation or it’s something different? My car is LHD (I drive on the right). Thanks

1 minute ago, Francisco_gomes said:

Hello, I have a superb mk3 too, and I found out when I drive on the highway the left headlight turns off highbeam when the matrix is on, it’s related to this situation or it’s something different? My car is LHD (I drive on the right). Thanks

So your car is doing it correctly, dipping left lamp not to blind oncoming traffic but keeping side of the road fully lit. In UK it should be the opposite with right lamp dipping and left staying on. Year on and I'm still not any wiser as to how to fix that issue. No help from my local Skoda dealer. 

10 hours ago, StoneFist85 said:

So your car is doing it correctly, dipping left lamp not to blind oncoming traffic but keeping side of the road fully lit. In UK it should be the opposite with right lamp dipping and left staying on. Year on and I'm still not any wiser as to how to fix that issue. No help from my local Skoda dealer. 

I wonder if its something that can be changed using VCDS; it tends to be in the long-coding there are all sorts of options you tell the car and the software reacts. For example, I disabled my heated steering wheel as there were 4 options to tick, I must have changed it not knowing there was an implication to it (it didn't seem obvious at the time) but from that point the heated steering wheel button never worked (as if it had been disconnected). Dealer tech said he'd looked at everything and fund the system was effectively registering the wheel as hot already and not having it on. Long story short, I wonder if the car isn't turning off the headlight as it has an incorrect setting. Do you have VCDS or know someone who does?

1 hour ago, travs said:

I wonder if its something that can be changed using VCDS; it tends to be in the long-coding there are all sorts of options you tell the car and the software reacts. For example, I disabled my heated steering wheel as there were 4 options to tick, I must have changed it not knowing there was an implication to it (it didn't seem obvious at the time) but from that point the heated steering wheel button never worked (as if it had been disconnected). Dealer tech said he'd looked at everything and fund the system was effectively registering the wheel as hot already and not having it on. Long story short, I wonder if the car isn't turning off the headlight as it has an incorrect setting. Do you have VCDS or know someone who does?

Yes, I have vcds and yes I'm guessing that coding module is required to tell car to dip right instead left lamp, just a problem as to where it is.

I would go through Central electrics, long coding, then as you flick through every pair of numbers you might stumble across it. I'll have a look when I get a mo too to see if I can find anything

I would love an answer to this one too.. 

Bugs me every time I get on a motorway yet the minute you hit the off ramp it defaults back to normal. 

Not that we have a lot of motorways.. 😆

 

8 minutes ago, FionnG said:

I would love an answer to this one too.. 

Bugs me every time I get on a motorway yet the minute you hit the off ramp it defaults back to normal. 

Not that we have a lot of motorways.. 😆

 

Yeah but that works for each dual carriageway as per GPS. It is annoying and to counter some people from previous posts that tried to make us look like worse evil - I'm annoyed because I can't use it without blinding other people and that's what I want to avoid 

On 04/02/2024 at 11:55, StoneFist85 said:

sounding like someone frustrated who complains as he would like to have them lighs but can't so just keeps complaining about others having them.

 

Thank you for your valued clinical analysis.

13 minutes ago, J.R. said:

 

Thank you for your valued clinical analysis.

It's not any analysis, I'm just telling how I feel getting attacked for something that's not my intention. Them light are there for a reason, they aren't working as they should so I'm looking to get them fixed and asking for solution not for someone's opinion, especially when they talk nonsense. 

Thank you once again for your observations.

We're all Skoda brothers and sisters. Worse things in life than this sort of thing - let's try and focus on getting the lights sorted chaps 👍

I'm in Skoda Dealer next week to fix my gearbox in emergency mode ( mechatronic module 1 to be replaced... 💶😬) and major service including software update. I already mentioned problem with matrix headlights on motorway and will insist to look into this again.. They seem to have no clue, so as you guys mentioned the only option is to find where in vcds to fix it 👌

I'm sure the matrix mapping is wrong for UK motorways and dual carriageways;

It blocks out the left hand side (shown in purple) rather then the right hand side - which I would expect it to do, so that even if car light are obscured by the central barrier, they would not get blinded...

Edited 31 March, 20251 yr by MARViN2003

32 minutes ago, MARViN2003 said:

I'm sure the matrix mapping is wrong for UK motorways and dual carriageways;

It blocks out the left hand side (shown in purple) rather then the right hand side - which I would expect it to do, so that even if car light are obscured by the central barrier, they would not get blinded...

That's exactly what's happening yet nor one person in skoda is acknowledging that issue

FL 2023, RHD, left side of road here.

I have coded my HBA to be on as set when the car was switched off, so on most of the time even when driving on UK motorways. I never get flashed at by oncoming traffic on the right. The car is set to RHD in the menu.

In STG 4B there is a setting for "motorway light" which has always been set to active. Another setting "Highway light" cannot be set. If you do you just get errors.

When we went into France I set the light to right hand traffic, driving on right. On motorways even when there is no discernible barrier in the middle and I can see the lights of oncoming traffic I frequently get flashed by the traffic on the left of me and turn the auto HBA off. I have not really tried to drive in France with the car set to left hand traffic thinking that the settings have to be correct. Next time I might try keeping the lights set to left hand traffic. Unfortunately I cannot change this when driving. The car has to stationary to do the change.

Mine went to the Skoda dealer but they couldn't find anything wrong.

Interestingly, my GPS stopped working for a few days, and when going on the motorway or dual carriageway, the matrix LEDs just carried on working as they do on a normal road, so it's linked to the car knowing it's on a dual carriageway / motorway from the GPS mapped data rather then just the camera.

When we were driving on the french motorway the sat nav was working o.k. On french N-roads / country roads the matrix lights shade the oncoming traffic though.

I am sure Skoda programming simply does not cut the beam to the left when on motorways and the camera might not see the oncoming lights because of the central barrier.

I wonder how a LHD car with matrix LED lights and HBA on behaves on UK motorways.

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