Adaptive Head Lights - Coming to the US???

[Aron]

Pretty sure that I got these working yesterday. I know for sure that I’ve removed the “auto-brights” part, but there was too much traffic and other light pollution to be 100% sure.

If so, then I can confirm that Job 2 2022s can make the switch, since my truck was built in September.

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[dolsen]

Anyone have a good source for the headlamp to BCM and BCM to HCM harnesses? I bought the headlamp harness from Precision Retrofits, but their other harnesses show as out of stock on their site

 

[sbi]

Not sure if this was discussed, but one thing I noticed very early this morning (4 am) is that Glare Free headlights can't tell when there is fog/heavy fog in which high beams should not be used.
I know I can disable to "adaptive" by turning high beams manually, just saying

 

[dolsen]

Not sure if this was discussed, but one thing I noticed very early this morning (4 am) is that Glare Free headlights can't tell when there is fog/heavy fog in which high beams should not be used.
I know I can disable to "adaptive" by turning high beams manually, just saying

Yea that’s actually in the programming of the headlamps, if there’s too much fog or rain it’ll turn the glare free off

 

[sbi]

Yea that’s actually in the programming of the headlamps, if there’s too much fog or rain it’ll turn the glare free off

Turn the glare free off and put it in what status? Because if it's not glare free, it is Adaptive Headlights, which still turns high beam on/off automatically. I do not recall high beam not turning on in fog conditions.

 

[dolsen]

Turn the glare free off and put it in what status? Because if it's not glare free, it is Adaptive Headlights, which still turns high beam on/off automatically. I do not recall high beam not turning on in fog conditions.

From PTS:

The IPMA turns the high beams off if any of the following occur:
The IPMA detects any light source that can be interpreted as an illuminated vehicle lamp
The IPMA determines the ambient lighting conditions are not dark enough
The vehicle speed falls below 44 km/h (27 mph)
The autolamps are turned off
The IPMA determines the view is blocked

The glare-free high beams will turn off when:
the system detects reduced visibility, such as severe rain, snow or fog.
the ambient light level is high enough.
the vehicle speed is less than 19 mph (30 km/h).

As you can see the auto high beams and glare free have different conditions for turning off

 

[imnuts]

My guess is that in dense enough fog, the high beams will flash once it twice and then stay off for a while. It probably is much thicker fog than what a reasonable person would keep the brights off for though. I've seen times where I passed save-all road signs all at once with high beams on and the system kept them off for a short distance because of all the reflected light.

 

[ShadowFox]

Sep 30th, 2022 Build Day, the glare free hardware IS on my truck and I enabled the setting.

It works, however the dynamic bending stopped working and I get a warning pop up to check my headlight system.

Lights still do the dance at start.

 

[ROBB1]

Sep 30th, 2022 Build Day, the glare free hardware IS on my truck and I enabled the setting.

It works, however the dynamic bending stopped working and I get a warning pop up to check my headlight system.

Lights still do the dance at start.

I replied to you on the Tremor forum as well, but please check all the values in the HCM closely.

 

[JIMFOUNTAIN]

Turn the glare free off and put it in what status? Because if it's not glare free, it is Adaptive Headlights, which still turns high beam on/off automatically. I do not recall high beam not turning on in fog conditions.

Pushing the turn signal stalk forward toggles between 3 states: Glare free. Low beam. High beam.

 

[sbi]

Pushing the turn signal stalk forward toggles between 3 states: Glare free. Low beam. High beam.

I know :

I know I can disable to "adaptive" by turning high beams manually, just saying

Was just wondering, if everything is "automatic", I don't want to manually deactivate it.

 

[J44snk]

I finally got my PC Laptop - I just turned mine on yesterday with FORscan (along with Bambi Mode).
July 2022 blend date (Job 2 Truck)

I did a quick test last night and it worked awesome - much better than the Auto high Beams

But FORscan is showing a DTC error in HCM, but no errors on the dash, and everything seems to be working ok.
“U0122 lost communication with vehicle dynamics control module”

Anyone know what this error is?

 

[ROBB1]

I finally got my PC Laptop - I just turned mine on yesterday with FORscan (along with Bambi Mode).
July 2022 blend date (Job 2 Truck)

I did a quick test last night and it worked awesome - much better than the Auto high Beams

But FORscan is showing a DTC error in HCM, but no errors on the dash, and everything seems to be working ok.
“U0122 lost communication with vehicle dynamics control module”

Anyone know what this error is?

It’s not uncommon to produce DTC during the change process, particularly communication related . It is also not uncommon for these trucks to produce random DTCs on there own. I wouldn’t worry much about it at this point. Clear and continue.

If the DTC immediately comes back after clearing it might be worth further investigation

 

[TruckGuy2020]

Will I be able to do this mod to a 2021 with projector headlights? Or is it for 2022s only?

Secondly, is forscan the only way to add this feature, or will Ford potentially push this out via OTA if the truck already has the hardware to do it?

 

[ROBB1]

Will I be able to do this mod to a 2021 with projector headlights? Or is it for 2022s only?

Secondly, is forscan the only way to add this feature, or will Ford potentially push this out via OTA if the truck already has the hardware to do it?

Your 21’ will be good to go if you have projectors.

There is about a 0% chance this ever gets pushed to older vehicles. It wasn’t approved in the US when we got our 21s, the US Regs only recently caught up to where the rest of the 1st world has been for awhile. I expect this will be a upsell feature in the near future

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