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Brights flickering on turns

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hello I have a 2022 lightning platinum, while driving at night a new issue has recently started with my high beams. As i come out of a left turn on a curve or go around a right hand curve my brights flicker or twitch. This does not happen going straight or left, this does happen with regular headlights. The lights are auto switch from low to high but the flicker happens on a dark road with no oncoming traffic. This is not the automatic hi/low switching. Has anyone else seen this issue and had it diagnosed. I am worried that it is the beginning of a worse problem
Unfortunately, I have had this issue. It took over a month to diagnose due to the dealership having a policy that they could not drive customer vehicles after hours. Fortunately I was able to provide footage to the dealership from my dash cam of the issue. In my case the headlight itself had to be replaced.

First we had to determine if it was one or both headlights flickering. To do this I covered each of the headlights, one at a time, and drove on a private road. In my case it was only the driver side. Next, in order to determine if it was the headlight or the control module the dealer switched the right and left control modules to see if the problem switched sides. I then had to repeat the previous test and was able to determine that the problem was still on the drivers side. After that they were able to replace the headlight under my extended warranty. I'm glad that I had opted for the LED lighting option when I purchased my extended warranty, otherwise this issue might not have been covered.

I wish you luck in getting this issue resolved quickly.
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To piggyback, are you saying that it's normal for some flickering if glare free/matrix headlights enabled?

Edit to add:
I'm asking because I've only really driven once at night since I activated via Forscan and I noticed some flickering at times, especially visible on road signs.
Yes!
I have driven through a construction zone that had concrete barriers, put up between the lanes and had a bunch of reflective stickers or something on the top of the concrete barrier, and it will light them up and then turn them off and then light them up and then turn them off and then light them up and then turn them off
The same thing happens if you’re in an area with a bunch of signs, it will light them up, and then they will dim and light them up again and so on
 

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Yes!
I have driven through a construction zone that had concrete barriers, put up between the lanes and had a bunch of reflective stickers or something on the top of the concrete barrier, and it will light them up and then turn them off and then light them up and then turn them off and then light them up and then turn them off
The same thing happens if you’re in an area with a bunch of signs, it will light them up, and then they will dim and light them up again and so on
See my post #7 and #15. I have no such oscillation with my Canadian truck with factory glare-free so something else is at play here.
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