MY16 XC60 D4 SE LUX DRL (day driving lights)

[davidjpowell]

Originally Posted by AngloScot

When I collected my car the dealer told me that most people leave the lights on auto mode and you never need to worry about whether the light are on or not. So mine are on auto all the time. - No brainer methinks.

Fog. Just think about it for a moment

[Fursty Ferret]

You only have to drive under some trees on a slighly dull day for suddenly your lights go on, hate to think what the driver in front thinks if you are following someone.

Erm, what might they think? My headlights live in auto mode, except in fog (or snow etc) as davidjpowell says above ^^

[AngloScot]

I would have thought that everyone on the road drives differently and adjusts front lights to suit what's best in fog. Normal driving conditions like I said, lights on auto. - no brainer.

[Considered1]

I was actually spooked that my rear lights weren't on automatically in the fog but then it obviously wasn't dark enough but I didn't realise until a learned friends on here stated what should be the bleeding obvious, guess I just assumed the rear lights were on too with the front DRL's ..clearly not.

[Spitfire4]

Having a blonde moment as Mrs S would say but I thought the rear lights were on with drls on Volvo, so went out to check and yes they are on with drls, but Volvo says you have to have the lights set to auto and the rears will come on too.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...ticle26077653/

Volvo is an exception — if lights are set to auto, then the tail lights come on with the front DRL, a company spokesman said.

[volvorocks]

Originally Posted by Brodick

Just on a side note V40 SE Lux DRLs do not switch off when headlights on.

Think that is because you may have the Xenon headlights?

On non xenon headlights (v40) the DRL's switch off when the headlights are activated, which I think is how all DRL's should work on cars, then they would not look like people were driving around with foglights on.

Regards

[Spitfire4]

Ah yes I have Xenons

[wimorrison]

Originally Posted by davidjpowell

Fog. Just think about it for a moment

Headlights come on automatically when you switch on the rear fog lights, and you don't even have to think about it

[Roland_F]

Referring back to the original question, it may be because the DRLs are much whiter than halogen headlights, and the mismatch of colour temperatures would be a bit sloppy, so they are set up to turn off. (However, I cannot remember from memory if all V40 DRLs are LED or halogen or spec-dependent. Other manufacturers using halogen DRLs have them set to go off when the headlights are on.)

On my 63 XC60 (xenon lights), the DRLs are significantly dimmer at night unless when cornering when they act as auxiliary cornering lights.

[wimorrison]

Originally Posted by Roland_F

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On my 63 XC60 (xenon lights), the DRLs are significantly dimmer at night unless when cornering when they act as auxiliary cornering lights.

It is actually separate lights in the corners of the headlights that switch on as the additional cornering lights - if you look at the headlights you will see the side facing bulbs