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Wil wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:40 pm Hi all, another Porsche noob question.
I collected my gen 3 gts a few weeks ago and I’m slowly getting used to it, but I think there’s a bug in the pdls software, let me try to explain.
You’re driving along and it’s dark. Engage high beam with the column stalk and in the dash you get the green “A”, which is effectively telling you that high beam is on, it the car will decide for itself whether to actually put it on.
If there’s no other cars around, then high beam will come on, and the blue lights appear on the dash to tell you it’s on.
If a car is detected the beams dip and the blue light goes off, so you’re back to just the green A on the dash.
So far so good, auto high beam working as expected.
But, switching auto high beam off again is where it goes wrong.
I tend to not use high beam on the motorway. If the road is lit you don’t need high beam and I find the sensors sometimes don’t pick up oncoming vehicles because their headlights are hidden by the central barrier, so it often doesn’t dip properly and it’s more hassle than it’s worth.
So, Back to the issue, I’ve been driving along on an a raod with auto high beam on, but I’m following a car so the beam is dipped. We both hit a motorway slip road so I want to switch off auto high beam, but high beam isn’t currently on.
What I’ve found is that’s not possible without putting high beam on.
To disengage auto high beam you pull the stalk towards you. If it’s not on ,that will flash the lights, which I don’t want to do if I’m following another car down a motorway slip road. But there’s no other way to switch off the auto high beam unless you wait for HB to actually come on, then pull the stalk to switch it off.
Either way, auto high beam can only be switched off by having high beam on in some way.
Is this the same for everyone?

Sorry about the lengthy description.

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Turning the light switch from Auto to On and back again should do it
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Wil wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 3:00 pm
Tracky wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:54 pm Leave it until you’ve passed the car you are following ?
That works to a point, but you still end up flashing your lights on the motorway to switch it off, which is annoying for other vehicles.
It’s just really odd there’s no way of disengaging auto HB without HB being on.
I don’t disagree - assume AMG E class isn’t the current shape ? Mine had the matrix which were brilliant - have them on my 992 too
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Tracky wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 6:04 pm
Wil wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 3:00 pm
Tracky wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:54 pm Leave it until you’ve passed the car you are following ?
That works to a point, but you still end up flashing your lights on the motorway to switch it off, which is annoying for other vehicles.
It’s just really odd there’s no way of disengaging auto HB without HB being on.
I don’t disagree - assume AMG E class isn’t the current shape ? Mine had the matrix which were brilliant - have them on my 992 too
I opted against PDLS plus simply because it’s just not a bigger move forward over manually applying full beam where required.
If matrix had been an option it would have been close to top of the list. I had on an E coupe five years ago and they were absolutely superb.
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If you switch the headlights to on rather than auto, does that deactivate dynamic headlights?
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Post by Wil »

martinto8 wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:26 pm
RGS wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:43 pm Hopefully the next Macan will come with a Matrix Lights option which are far better than PDLS Plus ( old technology )
Have to agree on this I have matrix LED on my S5 and they are light years (excuse the pun) ahead of PDLS+ IMO
Yep, same here, the merc intelligent light system is way ahead of pdls +.
I assume they don’t offer it on the macan to keep the differential between it and the cayenne as large as possible, but it’s a shame.
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I have PDLS+ and like the turning beam feature, the auto full beam sucks so I turned it off in the MFD menu system.
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Post by bennachie »

Strange, I find auto full bem excellent.......I wonder what the differences in use environment are to affect it
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Post by Toddie »

I too find the auto dip excellent but mine is mainly A & B roads, not a lot of dual carriageway or motorway . I also find the turning feature very useful, particularly @ country road junctions.
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Wil wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:19 pm
Highflyer99 wrote: Fri Dec 31, 2021 2:05 pm Taken from ‘Good to know ‘ Porsche App. :D 7A0F242F-DC32-4EB0-9E04-BAB86AA96BD2.png9D0F3A58-47F0-449B-94D5-CBC3DA28E071.png12A21CAF-BF71-424B-9A02-1866FF05E87F.png
Yeah, as per my post, if you do what it says, high beam comes on.
Your full explanation is correct Wil, “it’s a Faf” and why I chose not to have it on my second Macan, especially annoying if approaching a large reflective road sign as you just get dazzled by your own headlights 😵‍💫. Got to say though I do miss the auto graduation adjustment, that is useful.
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