Is glare free headlight the latest casualty?

[Spiffy]

I guess the bean counters don't drive rual roads in the Midwest.
I guess

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[SonarChief]

Glare free was a FORScan enabled option in the USA (a delivered option in Canada) for those with the auto beam headlights from 2021-2023. In 2024 (unfortunately for me) they apparently removed this ability. So it’s been a “casualty” since then.

 

[Speck512]

Glare free was a FORScan enabled option in the USA (a delivered option in Canada) for those with the auto beam headlights from 2021-2023. In 2024 (unfortunately for me) they apparently removed this ability. So it’s been a “casualty” since then.

Is this to mean that if you have a 2024 with the bending headlights, you can’t code them to anti glare anymore?

If so, that stinks. I just plugged in Forscan yesterday to get started on some changes.

I had the “Anti Dazzle” headlights enabled on a recent BMW. They were incredible. Was hoping for the same on this truck.

 

[SonarChief]

Unfortunately that’s exactly what it means(as far as all the people on the forum who have already researched this extensively have said). I too, was disappointed to learn this, I guess the downside of sharing a “cheat” is that “the man” was also monitoring the same boards as the rest of us!

 

[lexionman575]

I do a lot of nighttime driving in Eastern North Carolina rural areas where deer are about as prevalent as gnats. I had two instances with the glare free lights on the 21 where they illuminated deer on my right side as I was meeting traffic.
It still shows as functional equipment on Canadian trucks, do we have any Canadian members on the forum here? I would love to compare some as built data.

I thought I had it the other night, the menus say glare free, Icon turns green, and lights ramp up/orient themselves/do like they would on the 21 with nothing coming. Problem was when i would meet someone they never moved or dimmed. Could turn headlights off and back on and same thing occurs. I feel like I’m close and it should be possible with some programming. It may sound trivial but with my driving schedule and conditions I’d do anything possible to get this feature back. I’ll buy components, pay for non us programming of the hcm/bcm, hell I’ll cash app one of these ford engineers that supposedly read all our posts and get features removed a couple grand if you can spill the beans on how to make headlights great again.

 

[Spiffy]

Glare free was a FORScan enabled option in the USA (a delivered option in Canada) for those with the auto beam headlights from 2021-2023. In 2024 (unfortunately for me) they apparently removed this ability. So it’s been a “casualty” since then.

How did they remove it? With an update? If so what update?

 

[SonarChief]

How did they remove it? With an update? If so what update?

From my understanding, they removed the access via FORScan, the commands are no longer there for the North American 2024 F150’s.

 

[HammaMan]

How did they remove it? With an update? If so what update?

Likely hidden somewhere in the software. It just takes forever to get approved because govt agencies move at the speed of govt. Tesla recently had theirs approved for some models and kicked out an update to allow it. I'm guessing ford didn't want to press their luck allowing a now well known bypass to occur so I suspect it to be a future update once approved. When approved they'll likely make a big deal of it like "look, we're a modern cutting edge auto maker, we've increased your vehicles features over the air"

 

[Spiffy]

I still don't understand. Was the change made in forscan where the registers can not be ticked or some update that turns off the software.
I could have sworn that mine is still working after a update session. I did my forscan changes a year ago.

This yet another useful feature the trucks are losing.

 

[HammaMan]

for 24+ model years, yes, it's currently locked on US trucks

 

[Spiffy]

Hopefully ford gets less stingy in their trucks when I'm ready to buy a new one. I feel fortunate that I have one of the last years model that has everything. Except ambiance lighting.

 

[HammaMan]

Chinese have a crazy deluxe ambient light kit that only requires you to grab the lin bus signal from the BCM/CJB and works with the factory RGB ambient settings with lots of options including full front and rear feet lights, light pipes, door illumination and even some cheesy speaker inserts if you want to use them

Front parts

Rear doors

 

[Spiffy]

Chinese have a crazy deluxe ambient light kit that only requires you to grab the lin bus signal from the BCM/CJB and works with the factory RGB ambient settings with lots of options including full front and rear feet lights, light pipes, door illumination and even some cheesy speaker inserts if you want to use them

Front parts

Rear doors

Omg! Reminds me of disco

 

[HammaMan]

Oh they've got a crazy moving RGB variant too with the moving rainbow patterns. You can use as much or as little as you want.

 

[FirstFord]

I am aware that the Glare Free Headlights mod in FORScan has seen some rough water lately. I don’t pretend to know all of the ins and outs, but it is my understanding that Ford has made some changes (presumably through OTA updates), and for those who were successful in making the mod, the feature now “acts funny”, i.e., no longer functions quite as it did originally, and further, no longer works for newer trucks – only works on ’21 and ’22 model years. I also seem to recall that you had to have an updated module (don’t remember which one) that I did not have, so I held off attempting this mod. And as it turned out, there were several other mods in FORScan that I’ve wanted to make, but required “newer” module updates than what I had.

Fast forward to now. Last week I finally gathered up the gumption to go the FDRS route and get everything updated (except the infamous BCM which requires advanced password/permission). God must have been smiling on me that day, because it was painless, and went without an issue (the biggest issue that I experienced was just getting logged in – what a pita!), and I am pleased with the outcome. It took quite a bit of time, but I already knew that going in. Since making the updates successfully through FDRS, I’ve made the additional FORScan mods that I wanted to do, checking for DTCs all along the way, and I was DTC free. The final mod was doing Glare Free. Because I have a ’22 MY truck, I was not concerned. But it appears that it is not working out. Again, I checked for DTCs through the whole process: none after the changes in the APIM, IPMA, SCCM, and IPC. Then the HCM module ruined it all. After making changes there, I got a DTC saying there is a compatibility issue with the module.

So I’m wondering if all of the FDRS updates may have actually had an update that “kicked me out” of getting the Glare Free Headlights, even though my truck is a ’22 model year. Any thoughts on this? Do I need to abandon this mod?

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