I have a 2023 Superb Sportlin 280+, although I would expect all Mk3 Superbs to be the same in this respect.

My problem is that I find the main beam warning light is a little out of my line of sight, being offcentre at the bottom of the instrument display, and I am occasionally leaving the beams up when I would want them dipped. This is more of a problem in urban areas where it's always easy to see when the lights are on beam.

I'm not that keen on the intelligent lighting so have that switched off.

My question is, has anyone found a way of making the main beam warning light more prominent and therefore less easy to overlook?

1 hour ago, Porker said:

This is more of a problem in urban areas where it's not always easy to see when the lights are on beam.

Corrected the sentence above.

On my 2021 Superb I leave the system to its own devices and it automatically switches the main beam off once it detects street lighting........

Hi,

I fear it ain't possible to make the main beam warning light more prominent on a VC, unless having very high level computer skills...

SLA is very efficient though, trusting this system sounds more simple...

Where on earth are you driving that you can use the main beams long enough to forget you switched them on? 😆

Edited 5 December, 20255 Dec by AlistairCookie

I just put my headlights in auto and leave the system to do its thing.

Brilliant system and one of the most useful features in the car in my opinion.

I have it in constant use in the evenings at this time of year and find it helps fatigue on dark roads no end.

Maybe try trusting it to do its job for a night or two and see how it goes.

From auto, push the stalk forward to go into manual high beam, and then pull back to turn system off completely.

You may be right. I'll revert to adaptive headlights and see how I get on with them, although I found them a bit slow to react (coming back up as I recall) when I originally tried them.

Edited 5 December, 20255 Dec by Porker

12 hours ago, Porker said:

You may be right. I'll revert to adaptive headlights and see how I get on with them, although I found them a bit slow to react (coming back up as I recall) when I originally tried them.

I haven’t looked at settings in a bit but there might be a speed adjustment for the lights reaction time. I can’t remember.

27 minutes ago, UndertheRadar said:

I haven’t looked at settings in a bit but there might be a speed adjustment for the lights reaction time. I can’t remember.

There is - I have it set to Fast and have given it a go this evening. I'm undecided at the moment. I like the ability to manage the lights but as I've said the small blue warning light, especially when masked by the predominantly blue background to the instrument display, makes it a bit difficult at times. I'll carry on with the intelligent lighting for a week or two and see how I get on with it.

I have never needed to see the main beam blue light on the dashboard, in conditions when main beam is needed you can see they are on looking out of the window

Brilliant.

The only thing I can think of which I’m sure you’ve done is adjust the seat to ne higher then lower the steering column if needed

16 hours ago, Porker said:

I've said the small blue warning light, especially when masked by the predominantly blue background to the instrument display, makes it a bit difficult at times

Maybe I'm curious, but would you be colorblind? If yes, I would better understand why you struggle with low color contrast...

Edited 6 December, 20256 Dec by Bap33

Not that I'm aware of. My colour vision was passed as good enough for flying aircraft, though that was 40+ years ago.

It's not that I can't see it when I look at it, but rather that it doesn't stand out in my peripheral vision if I'm not looking at the instrument cluster, unlike the beam lights in nearly all if not most of the other cars I have driven.

3 hours ago, Danoid said:

The only thing I can think of which I’m sure you’ve done is adjust the seat to ne higher then lower the steering column if needed

I can see the light from my current seating position, so that wouldn't help, unfortunately.

Just to close the loop on this one, I've now been using the intelligent headlamps for a couple of weeks and have become more accustomed to them. I still don't think they're quick enough to revert to main beam, and they are reluctant to switch to main beam if there are even small light sources, such as weak street lights, ahead of the car, which means that there are areas of the road ahead which aren't lit as brightly as they would be on main beam, which I could have used without inconveniencing anyone previously.

However on balance I will probably stick with the intelligent lighting setup since the main beam light is, for me at least, just too inconspicuous against an instrument cluster with a blue background.

On 21/12/2025 at 21:06, Porker said:

Just to close the loop on this one, I've now been using the intelligent headlamps for a couple of weeks and have become more accustomed to them. I still don't think they're quick enough to revert to main beam, and they are reluctant to switch to main beam if there are even small light sources, such as weak street lights, ahead of the car, which means that there are areas of the road ahead which aren't lit as brightly as they would be on main beam, which I could have used without inconveniencing anyone previously.

However on balance I will probably stick with the intelligent lighting setup since the main beam light is, for me at least, just too inconspicuous against an instrument cluster with a blue background.

For a 2023 Sportline you should have full matrix LED if you have them enabled not just High/low beam.

Correct -the lights are full matrix but still suffer from the shortcomings outlined.