Clarification on Skoda Crystal Lighting, Dyn Light Assist and AFS

[imtp]

Hello everybody,

 

I'm posting this as a last resort after a couple days of searching everywhere, so please excuse me if it's an already answered question.

 

I'm about to purchase a used Skoda Superb PHEV from 2020. Somehow the dealer I've been working with has given me rather confusing information on the lighting features.

 

First of all, according to the official spec, the car has full matrix led lights. I also looked at the headlight and saw "Skoda Crystal Lighting" written on it. I would really like to have the adaptive cornering lights feature on the car, but since all test drives are during the day time, its hard to test this out. 

 

Poking around in the menus I see it has a Dynamic Light Assist, which after extensive research I've understood to be the high beam assist (Please correct me if I'm wrong). I can't find the option for "Dynamic Cornering Light" which I've seen in a few rare videos. However, the dealer insists that the car has cornering lights. I also flipped through the user manual inside the car and saw the circled bit (it's in German, but the gist of it is, that a dynamic cornering light is automatically active in the Auto position).

 

I can't for the life of me understand whether this car only has the fog lamp corner activation or also the dynamic beam shaping features while cornering. 

 

Can any of you users guide me here? :)

[imtp]

Edit: In case the AFS/Dynamic Cornering lighting isn't available on this car, is it possible to have it activated by coding or at an official service center?

[brettikivi]

the car has full LED matrix lights. This is not high beam assist, it's high beam assist on steroids: It uses turned off LEDs to mute the light where none should be (for example, oncoming traffic).

 

No AFS available, though I don't know why you'd want it, as the DFA will push the light to where it's needed (or more to the point, block it where it shouldn't be). only pre facelift cars have AFS.

 

DFA is not AFS.

Why do you want AFS specfically? I'd be asking to do an overnight test drive to confirm the lights do what you need them to do. If you're in the woods and need more light to the sides, I'd be looking at external lights anyway.

 

[nicknorman]

I had a 2016 Superb with the cornering xenon headlights. They were quite good, but a bit of a gimmick really. I now have a 2023 superb with LED matrix headlights, they are much better in all respects except for the absence of the cornering gimmick. I don’t miss it at all.