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I'm new to coding, so sorry for the noob question. I have a 2012 335i and have never noticed the tunnel when using my high beam assist. Can someone confirm if I have the hardware to code this?
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01-27-2014, 08:35 PM | #92 |
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Did this last night and was very impressed with the high beam action.
Driving home today with low beams, it seems the bean does more adjustment... Almost seems dimmer or lower. Anyone else have comments on this? Is it another part of the feature or am I missing something? |
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01-27-2014, 10:52 PM | #95 | |
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"The light distribution is automatically adapted to the speed when you have adaptive headlights. The city light is active as of a speed of less than 50km/h (30mph). The motorway light is switched on at a speed higher than 110km/h (68mph) after approximately 30 seconds or as of a speed of 140km/h (87mph)." source: http://f20.1addicts.com/forums/showthread.php?t=753006 I'm trying to find a UK or AUS version of the manual to see if this feature is described, but have no luck. Either way, that explains why it goes straight when I'm backing up and goes straight when going at a faster speed. Not sure how useful this particular feature is though! |
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02-10-2014, 05:58 PM | #96 | |
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Here is the answer to what these values do. Motorwaylight I From a constant driving velocity of around 90 km/h, the motorway light can be activated. Levelling motors thereby lift the projection module (of the left headlamp in right hand drive) successively. With increasing speed the power of the Xenon lamp is raised to 37 W improving the illumination range from 130 m up to 160 m. When driving with high speed on motorways, this means a significant safety advantage. This would make sense in having coded the headlights now with What they should be doing with HBA it is the increase of wattage in the xenon's that I've notice as well. Last edited by JoinTheRace; 02-10-2014 at 07:37 PM.. |
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02-11-2014, 10:12 AM | #98 |
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Frogman, did we activate the Motorway feature or is it there by default once you get rid of the "decode"?
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02-12-2014, 11:21 AM | #101 |
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Hi,
Does the LED package on the 435 comes with this option for US specs cars or will I need to do coding too? Thanks.
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02-12-2014, 01:00 PM | #102 | |
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Check your options code list (via one of the VIN decoders). If your car has 5AP and/or 8S4, then it's disabled on your car, but can be enabled via coding. |
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After we finally got the glare-free HBA working, i got to experience what it felt to be driving in front of one. When the HBA was engaged, whether it was both headlamps in high beam mode or just one, looking back in the rearview mirror, it's definitely brighter but not glaringly so. If a car is not equipped with auto-dimming mirrors, i wonder how it would feel to be driving in front of a vehicle with the HBA engaged. |
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03-03-2014, 12:57 PM | #104 | |
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He and I also did a test a few nights ago on a dark two-lane road. With him following me I usually just saw the right high beam on as the left was dimmed / angled down because of on-coming traffic. It looked a bit strange, like one bulb was out. When both high beams were on (no other traffic), it was eerie, I could tell that the lights were a bit bright, but not annoyingly so. I could also see that the sides and ahead of the road by my car were much brighter, like being in a light tunnel; very strange feeling. I then had him flash his highs manually and man, that was blinding! him So, the anti-glare feature really does work. It's strange and others drivers may find it distracting, but it does not glare them! Last edited by Frogman; 03-03-2014 at 01:03 PM.. |
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It is very possible when i was using your method initially, when i was VO coding the FEM_BODY and KAFAS modules, i was VO coding "CAFD....." under the modules instead of the modules themselves. It was getting late last night and we were running out of ideas so we decided to do the modified FA method. We may give your method another try when we find the time to do this again. |
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Again, the only thing we are trying to do by not writing the FA to the car is to avoid any potential issues when taking the car in for service. If the modified FA isn't an issue when updating the programming, then there is no reason not to write the modified FA to the car. I think I remember seeing that someone doing this and BMW simply restored the factory FA to his car. |
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Bit of a long shot here, I have a European spec 2012 F25 with:
S522A Xenon Light S524A Adaptive Headlights S5ACA High-beam assistant Does anyone know if the F25 with these options can do anymore than the standard HBA and cornering light function (which is all mine do) i.e. the light tunnel effect etc.
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Something you can check without changing anything or needed E-Sys: Does your FA have codes 5AP and 8S4? These are the codes that disable the dazzle-free and extra adaptive modes. If you have those codes, then it will very likely work by removing them. If you don't have them, then there was no need for BMW to disable the feature and it probably won't work. You can check if you have those codes without any equipment; use one of the online VIN decoders to see if your car has these codes. Good luck and please report back! PS. I'm not sure if the European versions use the same codes or not. I'm only going off the US spec'ed cars. Yours may be different. |
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