Automatic high/low beam dipping feature

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rencar
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Post by rencar »

We have a brand new hybrid Esprit Alpine Captur (which of course the Symbioz is pretty much the same as), but have struggled with the automatic main beam feature of the car. We've tried the handbook and dealers, but finding the feature to temporarily turn the auto main beam off awkward. When the automatic main beam comes on, quite a lot of the time, as is normal, it doesn't detect cars pulling out of side streets, so we want to quickly turn off the main beam dazzling people. It seems the only way to do that in our Captur is to fumble about and try and turn the end of the stalk the right way to turn the whole automatic lighting feature off? Is that peoples understanding?

The manual suggests you can push the stalk forward, but that doesn't turn off the dazzling, only the switching off of the auto headlamp feature does that. Pushing the stalk forward (when set to auto) actually just seems turns the main beam on permanently until you pull it back!

On our Megane EV, you simply push the button at the end of the stalk and push it again to re-enable it. The journey today, resulting in turning off the auto headlights feature completely and just going back to the old fashioned method.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

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Post by Rizmo »

I too had the Esprit Alpine Captur and changed to the Symbioz quite quickly. I never drove the Captur in the dark. I will check the headlight options and report back. Dark nights arrive this weekend so driving in the dark each day will become the norm.
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rencar
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Post by rencar »

Thanks a lot.

Our previous 21 plate Clio hybrid had auto dipping and it worked well with just moving the lighting stalk forwards or backwards to temporarily turning it off. This functionality appears to have been changed, so there isn’t any quick way of turning the high/low dipping function off., other than switching all the auto lighting onto manual control. And all when your dazzling someone. it would be great to hear what you find.
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Post by Rizmo »

rencar wrote: Wed Oct 23, 2024 9:27 pm Thanks a lot.

Our previous 21 plate Clio hybrid had auto dipping and it worked well with just moving the lighting stalk forwards or backwards to temporarily turning it off. This functionality appears to have been changed, so there isn’t any quick way of turning the high/low dipping function off., other than switching all the auto lighting onto manual control. And all when your dazzling someone. it would be great to hear what you find.
All I can confirm is the stalk layout is identical to the Captur. It was not fully dark when I went out yesterday. The light switch was set to auto and the dipped beam stayed on the whole time. The journey was in urban surroundings so lots of street lighting. Not a proper test. Keep in touch if you find any answers.
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rencar
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Post by rencar »

Thanks a lot for coming back. It seems this auto dip function for some reason is now always on, when lights come on automatically.

There appears to no longer be any way of turning off the auto dip high/low beam on the new facelift Captur and Symbioz, without actually turning off all of the auto lighting features. Really not a great move in our opinion, as dipped lights automatically coming on when dusk, is very handy.

It seems that other than turning off the whole auto light system (by twisting the end of the lighting stalk to turn auto off into a manual position), the ability to push the stalk forwards and backwards to turn the dip feature on and off, is no more. There is no ability elsewhere (like the touchscreen settings) to control the dip behaviour. Our 2021 Clio and it seems previous model year Capturs, where fitted, had the option to move the stalk, to control whether it’s on or off, but the new Captur just doesn’t.

We knew nothing about this until we drove at night, as all our previous Renaults that had the stalk push feature on/off, we found very easy to use, and now we expected them to change its operation.

Try, when driving and you notice for example, a car waiting to pull out of their drive, main beam is on, so you’re absolutely dazzling them. Nowhere can you quickly drop the beam down, other than hoping you turn the end of the lighting stalk the right way to turn auto features off!

Shame really, but not really a first world issue, just a shame to not have this useful feature. Our view is it’s now quite dangerous to control its working, so likely we won’t use it.
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