No matter what sensitivity setting I put mine on I still get flashed by at least one or two people on every journey at nighttime its annoying as I really like this feature but I have had to resolve to disabling it and sing the old style main beam when needed, does anyone else have this problem?

51 minutes ago, Revan said:

No matter what sensitivity setting I put mine on I still get flashed by at least one or two people on every journey at nighttime its annoying as I really like this feature but I have had to resolve to disabling it and sing the old style main beam when needed, does anyone else have this problem?

OK, I'm going to ask. Does this system "dip" the headlights on detecting an oncoming loom of lights or wait until oncoming's headlights are actually visible?

it seems to be fine when following a car, and when a car is coming towards me it seems to wait until the oncoming cars headlights  are visible, I have tried it on near and far in the settings and still makes no difference. its a shame as i would rather leave it active it really does make country lane driving at night much better.

1 hour ago, Revan said:

it seems to be fine when following a car, and when a car is coming towards me it seems to wait until the oncoming cars headlights  are visible, I have tried it on near and far in the settings and still makes no difference. its a shame as i would rather leave it active it really does make country lane driving at night much better.

Thanks. I'd dip on seeing your loom, and may be triggered by a late dip from my oncoming.

1 hour ago, Revan said:

it seems to be fine when following a car, and when a car is coming towards me it seems to wait until the oncoming cars headlights  are visible, I have tried it on near and far in the settings and still makes no difference. 

My 2024 Kamiq does not appear to have this near and far, or any sensitivity adjustment in the settings, only a box to tick/ untick for headlight assist, which turns the matrix high beam function on/ off.

 

Good on you for accepting responsability and taking the correct measures to avoid dazzling oncoming motorists, its a shame they can only work to the detriment of oncoming motorists because I can definitely see tha advantages for the driver, most are too selfish to revert to manual operation.

 

The reason your vehicles sensors are not seeing the oncoming vehicles is because they have correctly dipped their headlights!

 

You are right that they sem to work when following behind a vehicle but whilst they mask the portion of the beam which would dazzle them they still give full illumination outside of that area, frequently the ones that dazzle me now are those one or two behind in a group of oncoming vehicles.

 

I had one behind me recently and whilst they were not dazzling me they were illuminating the oncoming roadsigns even the overhead ones so much that the reflection was too bright for me (we have all had to dip our lights when facing a really reflective roadsign outside of a lit up area) worse still I was getting flashed by oncoming motorists, not intended for me of course but the vehicle behind.

 

Finally I recall the first time several years back I experienced these awful matrix headlights, I was on a dark and deserted autoroute in the middle of the night, a vehicle joined behind at my speed keeping a constant distance with his headlights on main beam which dazzled me, I put on my rear fog light and the headlights dipped instantly, I should have realised that it was quicker than a driver would react, so I turned off my fog light and within a few seconds the main beam dazzling returned so I did it again, - you can probably see where this is going!!!

 

After the goon had done this to me 10 times (or so I thought) I got annoyed and slowed down, let him past then followed him close behind on full beam.

 

I felt guilty when I finally realised what had been going on.

1 hour ago, Kenny R said:

My 2024 Kamiq does not appear to have this near and far, or any sensitivity adjustment in the settings, only a box to tick/ untick for headlight assist, which turns the matrix high beam function on/ off.

 

I will take a photo of the settings menu when i get back home later

This is settings I have, I have tried all three and doesn't seem to make any difference.

Edited 7 January, 20251 yr by Revan

I believe the light sensor sensitivity settings are for setting the when the headlight dipped beam switch on when on auto.

12 minutes ago, Kenny R said:

I believe the light sensor sensitivity settings are for setting the when the headlight dipped beam switch on when on auto.

Oh I see, sorry me being an idiot then and not reading the manual!