Glare Free Headlights - Use Case

[astrand1]

Rural use is fabulous. The truck has really good bright lights with a really great beam spread. The glare free mode lets all that awesome light stay on lighting up the surrounding without blinding the vehicle ahead of me.

Yes in a city environment with street lights and building lights, it is basically useless since it locks to low beam. You can override it to manual if you want in that circumstance though.

Gonna have to disagree with you on part of this. I live in rural Michigan but am working in LA so many streetlights etc. and glare free works fantastic! It does in no way lock to low beams. I see the matrix LEDs doing their thing all the time. To the OP I don’t see where there is any use case where you wouldn’t want glare free enabled. Just having it on all the time and allowing the computer to decide where to put the light is the best way to go.

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[HornetRaider]

Gonna have to disagree with you on part of this. I live in rural Michigan but am working in LA so many streetlights etc. and glare free works fantastic! It does in no way lock to low beams. I see the matrix LEDs doing their thing all the time. To the OP I don’t see where there is any use case where you wouldn’t want glare free enabled. Just having it on all the time and allowing the computer to decide where to put the light is the best way to go.

I need to look through the modules and check numbers again. I have not noticed anything so far. Also need to reset the APIM module.

 

[astrand1]

I need to look through the modules and check numbers again. I have not noticed anything so far. Also need to reset the APIM module.

Yeah it’s very noticeable to me anyway but I’m a nerd and look at stuff like that. If your little highbeam telltail on the cluster is green then glare free should be working. If it’s white then you just have normal auto high beams.

 

[Heliian]

If everyone had glare free lighting then we wouldn't get high beamed all the time by inattentive drivers and people with misaligned headlights.

 

[HornetRaider]

Yeah it’s very noticeable to me anyway but I’m a nerd and look at stuff like that. If your little highbeam telltail on the cluster is green then glare free should be working. If it’s white then you just have normal auto high beams.

That’s the strange part. It is green and the toggle is showing under vehicle settings.

 

[b.go]

Is it fairly easy to enable? I've never used FORscan, but might be willing to give it a try to get that feature enabled. I live in a rural area and I think it would be a good thing to have.

 

[bc1]

For what it's worth I've been using glare free for a few days now on a dark state highway but also has a few mile section of oil field gas plants and underground propane storage wells which is all lit up dead ahead as on the horizon like downtown as I navigate around curves through all this.

With the green auto icon lit up it seems like the automatic dimming goes on and off and never shows the blue brights icon. The glare free does show the shoulders more but doesn't illuminate as far down the highway itself and the signs aren't as bright. If I pull back on the stalk and hold it it does go into the original brights with the blue icon and illuminates the signs an looks further down the highway. Pushing forward on the stalk can also shift it to brights and out of automatic and the next push will dim them with another push getting me back to automatic lights again. I can also turn the dial down below on the dash to get to regular lights with manual control of the lights with a brights and dims option.

So the good side of glare free is I can see the ditches better for deer but I can't see as far straight down the the road for let's say deer, coons, skunks, possums, etc. in the road. What I want to avoid for sure are the deer standing in the road but I see a lot of vehicle parts and stuff the fell out of pickups and trailers laying in the road that are hard and something I don't want to run over but sometimes don't get enough advance notice to see. I have seen a number of rear bumper covers that have fallen off of cars laying in the road which at least aren't hard but they can scratch and dent the paint on the sides or cut a tire. Also have a lot of lumber, trash, and tree limbs laying in the road so that is also a big concern besides deer in the ditch.

The amount of traffic varies with how late in the evening it is but I believe I can start in glare free, forward move the stalk to go to brights in non-glare free but when traffic does appear ahead I can do a double move forward to go to dims and then to glare free.

So this is still new to me but just wondering if this is normal operation and if there are any other hints I need to know? Thanks.

 

[21st Century Truck]

Is it fairly easy to enable? I've never used FORscan, but might be willing to give it a try to get that feature enabled. I live in a rural area and I think it would be a good thing to have.

Yes, with some patience and with a meticulous approach there's nothing really hard about it. And the gain is absolutely worth it, in many driving environments.

 

[molsonmatt]

I don’t have FOREscan nor am I well versed in or want to be. Glare free headlights is the one mod I would love to do. Is there a way to modify my truck by bringing it somewhere to have someone do it? Is that a service that’s offered by anyone? Anyone in NJ want to make a couple bucks?

 

[21st Century Truck]

I don’t have FOREscan nor am I well versed in or want to be. Glare free headlights is the one mod I would love to do. Is there a way to modify my truck by bringing it somewhere to have someone do it? Is that a service that’s offered by anyone? Anyone in NJ want to make a couple bucks?

Sure and it would be helpful if You add Your general location in the avatar block for people in Your area to respond to Your post.

I've helped several fellow Lightning drivers turn this on... when I and they knew we were relatively close to each other..

 

[21st Century Truck]

I don’t have FOREscan nor am I well versed in or want to be. Glare free headlights is the one mod I would love to do. Is there a way to modify my truck by bringing it somewhere to have someone do it? Is that a service that’s offered by anyone? Anyone in NJ want to make a couple bucks?

Ah I now see New jersey in Your post. I still recommend adding something in Your avatar block.

 

[molsonmatt]

Ah I now see New jersey in Your post. I still recommend adding something in Your avatar block.

Good point. Done.

 

[carys98]

That’s the strange part. It is green and the toggle is showing under vehicle settings.

I think I posted this earlier but I had the green icon and the toggle for several months and my glare free was not working. I had missed one change and had a DTC in the HCM. I went back through every change until I found the error and now they are working perfectly.

I think there was an early post that had the error in it and that is what I used initially. Check for any DTCs and be sure you are using the settings at the top of the Forscan Version 2 thread and verify that you didn’t miss any.

 

[HornetRaider]

I think I posted this earlier but I had the green icon and the toggle for several months and my glare free was not working. I had missed one change and had a DTC in the HCM. I went back through every change until I found the error and now they are working perfectly.

I think there was an early post that had the error in it and that is what I used initially. Check for any DTCs and be sure you are using the settings at the top of the Forscan Version 2 thread and verify that you didn’t miss any.

I pulled codes and do have a fault in the HCM. Was yours similar to what I’m seeing?

 

[carys98]

I pulled codes and do have a fault in the HCM. Was yours similar to what I’m seeing?

I don’t remember the code but it was listed as a checksum error. The HSM settings are a little different from the others. Every line in the as-built has a checksum, it’s the two dashes on the end that Forscan will calculate for you. In the HCM section the line 734-11-01 is a separate checksum for the whole module. I think I had missed the last 1 on the 734-03-02 line but I’m not certain.

APIM 7D0-09-01 x1xx xxxx xx--
APIM 7D0-09-03 xxCx xxxx xx--
IPMA 706-01-01 xxxx xxx9 xx--
SCCM 724-04-01 xxx4 xxxx xx--
IPC 720-01-01 xx8x xxxx xx--
IPC 720-10-01 xxxx xxx3 xx--
HCM 734-01-02 xxxx x2xx xx-
HCM 734-03-02 xxxx xxx1 x1--
HCM 734-11-01 0735 89

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