Glare free headlight 'sensivitivity' adjustment

[mparz00]

Does anyone know if there is an option to adjust the 'sensitivity' with glare free operation? In my older XLT, the vertical 'slice' transition seemed very smooth from hi to lo beam. In my Lariat now, the glare free seems more granular and individual points jump from hi to low and back to hi within a second or two; which can be annoying, especially to a passenger.

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[B177y]

Does anyone know if there is an option to adjust the 'sensitivity' with glare free operation? In my older XLT, the vertical 'slice' transition seemed very smooth from hi to lo beam. In my Lariat now, the glare free seems more granular and individual points jump from hi to low and back to hi within a second or two; which can be annoying, especially to a passenger.

The "annoying" part you are describing is the glare-free. That's exactly what it is supposed to be doing.

The only remedy is to switch back to the auto high/low.

 

[astrand1]

Yeah that’s exactly how they work. They are matrix LEDs. I love watching them go on and off and making a little box around other cars. I can’t imagine how it would bother a passenger or why they would even care what the lights are doing.

 

[mparz00]

I guess I didn't explain this well enough. I have glare free on both trucks. Without an oncoming vehicle, one 'cell' will quickly bounce back and forth between hi and lo beam, as though the camera sees a light from that direction. Only on the Lariat, not the XLT.

 

[Firn]

Does anyone know if there is an option to adjust the 'sensitivity' with glare free operation? In my older XLT, the vertical 'slice' transition seemed very smooth from hi to lo beam. In my Lariat now, the glare free seems more granular and individual points jump from hi to low and back to hi within a second or two; which can be annoying, especially to a passenger.

I'm confused.
When you say your older XLT, do you mean the Auto High Beams of the older trucks? I dont belive any F150 had Glard Free prior to 2021. On the older trucks the entire high beam should turn on and off, there is no "slice".

As others have said, this is how the matrix headlight, Ford "glare free", works. Its designed to give you high beam coverage where there are no cars.

Edit. I see we typed at the same time.

Try the healight calibration in forscan. I had to run mine and it seems to have changed the sensitivity to some level. I only notice that after running it it must get MUCH darker out for the high beams to enable, but I have not paid attention to other aspects.

 

[Runaway Tractor]

Some things need to b clarified here. First, your old XLT did not have glare-free lightning. It had automatic high beams, which is ancient tech that has been around since the 90s. It just turns the high beams on/off based on a sensor seeing light ahead.

Second, on your lariat, did you use Forscan to enable the feature called Glare Free Lightning? Glare Free is a feature that needs to be turned on through Forscan. It uses the cameras to see where other cars are, and dims individual zones. Allowing the bright lights to stay on everywhere else without blinding the car in front of you. It is awesome. The only time I see it do what you're describing is when I'm passing a large tractor trailer and it gets confused sometimes. The right side will come on then see it's a truck and turn off.

If you have not enabled the Glare Free lighting in Forscan, then you only have automatic high beams. I think you have malfunctioning headlight that needs to be replaced.

 

[mparz00]

My 'old' XLT was a '22 Lightning. I had glare free enabled on that truck; sold it and now have a '22 Lariat, also with glare free. The way glare free operates on both trucks is very different. I enabled glare free using Forscan on both.

I understand how glare free operates. The ping-pong back and forth (hi to lo) from different cells as I drive down an empty road, with no other vehicles, is annoying and did not happen on the XLT.

 

[mparz00]

I'm confused.
When you say your older XLT, do you mean the Auto High Beams of the older trucks? I dont belive any F150 had Glard Free prior to 2021. On the older trucks the entire high beam should turn on and off, there is no "slice".

As others have said, this is how the matrix headlight, Ford "glare free", works. Its designed to give you high beam coverage where there are no cars.

Edit. I see we typed at the same time.

Try the healight calibration in forscan. I had to run mine and it seems to have changed the sensitivity to some level. I only notice that after running it it must get MUCH darker out for the high beams to enable, but I have not paid attention to other aspects.

Thanks, I will try the headlight calibration, have not run that to date.

 

[CRAIGC540]

Yeah that’s exactly how they work. They are matrix LEDs. I love watching them go on and off and making a little box around other cars. I can’t imagine how it would bother a passenger or why they would even care what the lights are doing.

I'm wondering if my 22 Lariat SR is actually working in matrix mode now, I never see any boxes just high beams up and down. I do see left and right going up and down individually.
Do I just have automatic high beams working? I have done Forscan and have the toggle for on and off adaptive lights in the lights settings.
I have ran the the headlight calibration in forscan once.

 

[mparz00]

Definitely should be very noticable. Do you have an option for 'Glare-free lighting' in settings under Vehicle, Lighting?
I'm not one to talk since I've made mistakes, did you double check the forscan changes?

 

[mparz00]

I'm wondering if my 22 Lariat SR is actually working in matrix mode now, I never see any boxes just high beams up and down. I do see left and right going up and down individually.
Do I just have automatic high beams working? I have done Forscan and have the toggle for on and off adaptive lights in the lights settings.
I have ran the the headlight calibration in forscan once.

And you should have the green indicator with an A in the bottom left of instrument screen

 

[Firn]

Thanks, I will try the headlight calibration, have not run that to date.

The only thing I can say is that I made some forscan changes and caused a bunch or dtcs so I had to run the calibration. I did that in my garage, which is fairly dark.

Previously the low beams would come on when it was getting dusk out, and it would stay that way for a while and then once it got darker out it would turn on the high beams as needed. There was a period of time where it was low beam only. Now the same thing happens but again, it has to be MUCH darker out before the high beams enable, dark enough I end up turning them on manually for 15-20 minutes before the automatic "kicks in"

I only say this to indicate there MAY be some sort of light level calibration as part of the process.

There are also some fade away times and spot enable/disable settings in the hcm and ldcma. If you have the vin for your old truck we could compare the two.

 

[GDN]

Does anyone know if there is an option to adjust the 'sensitivity' with glare free operation? In my older XLT, the vertical 'slice' transition seemed very smooth from hi to lo beam. In my Lariat now, the glare free seems more granular and individual points jump from hi to low and back to hi within a second or two; which can be annoying, especially to a passenger.

There is no adjustment that I'm aware of and what you describe is a change made by Ford. There are other threads where this was noticed and discussed. The first couple of years we had them activated it was a very smooth perfect transition. A year or so back there was a SW update and it altered them. The transition is not as smooth, you can almost see the pixels turning on and off.

 

[mparz00]

There is no adjustment that I'm aware of and what you describe is a change made by Ford. There are other threads where this was noticed and discussed. The first couple of years we had them activated it was a very smooth perfect transition. A year or so back there was a SW update and it altered them. The transition is not as smooth, you can almost see the pixels turning on and off.

Greg, thanks for the info, I searched on this but could not find a hit. That is exactly what I'm seeing. Strange that the XLT did not exhibit that on mine

 

[GDN]

Took a bit, but I found some of the conversation - October/November last year. https://www.f150lightningforum.com/forum/threads/f150-lightning-forscan-thread.11406/post-428162

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