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| WizzardPrang Member Since: 05 Nov 2020 Location: Hertfordshire Posts: 154  
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From the iGuide:
My understanding of this is that the above would override your Side Light option, so the DRLs would serve your requirement to drive on Side Lights. Current vehicle: 2020 Defender 110S Gone: Defender 90 HT 200Tdi, Discovery Sport, Freelander 2 Insta: wizzardprang |
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5th Sep 2022 8:40pm |
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| Dicky1961 Member Since: 25 Mar 2022 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 144
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Thanks for the reply, the DRL’S are only the front and not the rear so the only way to get your rear light’s on is to use the headlights / side light option, like I say when towing I like to have my caravan lights on, plus in certain lighting conditions I only want side lights and not headlights.
I find this really strange.  |
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5th Sep 2022 8:50pm |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17432  
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It's an annoying trend of designers to think they know best! I think many cars now have similar annoyances.
My friend has a Skoda Yeti, which is on the whole and excellent and well-designed car, yet switching the sidelights on turns off the instrument panel illumination (and like most modern cars you can see nothing on the instrument panel without the illumination). There are many situations when the ambient light is such that the intelligent driver would use sidelights rather than the abhorrent DRLs or the excessively bright headlights, and when it is not only sensible but wholly legal to do so, yet the designers have, arrogantly and annoyingly, decided that this shall not be. It makes me very grumpy (but I'm old so that is allowed and probably expected). According to the Yeti handbook, sidelights are now only for parking. |
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5th Sep 2022 9:02pm |
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| Dicky1961 Member Since: 25 Mar 2022 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 144
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Cheers for that, I am also of the grumpy old man club, looks like I’m going to have to live with it.
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5th Sep 2022 9:19pm |
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| Farmerben Member Since: 16 Jan 2017 Location: Herefordshire Posts: 605 
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I *think* there is an option to have rear lights on with DRLs... Might be hidden in the options somewhere.
EDIT: Think that could have been on an Audi.... https://instagram.com/bentheoandrews |
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6th Sep 2022 9:18am |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753 
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When I had an Evoque the forum complained to JLR that it was too easy to drive into poor conditions with just front DRL’s on and we considered it dangerous not to have rear permanent DRL’s - low and behold at the next model year we got front and rear DRL’s as standard……… then at the facelift in 2014 they were discontinued………. There are markets where front and rear DRLs are required (IIRC Sweden and Poland) and if you can get into the configuration files the option to change to those settings are there waiting to be enabled. They aren’t there in most European markets because there isn’t a legal requirement to have rear DRL’s on. One way around it is to select manual headlights on on the stalk instead of auto lights but then you will be driving all the time on dipped headlights rather than “side lights” which I always though where parking lights and not running lights. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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6th Sep 2022 11:00am |
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| Dicky1961 Member Since: 25 Mar 2022 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 144
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Hopefully the technicians at the dealership will find a way round it.
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6th Sep 2022 11:50am |
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| whiterdesign Member Since: 10 Jun 2021 Location: Preston Posts: 269
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Bet there is a setting in the CCF, email Powerful Uk and ask Simon to look at it. My last car was a Volvo and that did it, rear lights were permanently on. 110 XS 250 MY 23 Gondwana Stone, Cold climate pack and towbar
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6th Sep 2022 5:11pm |
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| Phil2014 Member Since: 17 Mar 2022 Location: Scotland Posts: 7 |
I thought it was just me, had ours 2 months, sometimes when I try to switch from headlights to just sidelights it wont, try again a few miles down the road and it will switch just the sidelights on, I cant figure out why?
Phil. |
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6th Sep 2022 7:26pm |
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| Dicky1961 Member Since: 25 Mar 2022 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 144
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This is the first car I’ve had that doesn’t have a standard side light option and find it very strange and frustrating.
As said in my original post there are some conditions that I would normally put my side lights on, and when towing. My previous car a D4 when connected to the caravan and engine running would put caravan lights on automatically. Seems now I have to drive with the headlights on to get tail lights to work. Backwards step on LR’s part in my opinion, even the technicians thought it was strange and that they thought there must be a get round in the system somewhere. Just don’t know where. Hopefully they will find one. If not then as whiterdesign suggested I’ll try Simon at Powerful UK. |
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6th Sep 2022 7:44pm |
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| County V8 Member Since: 07 Jun 2021 Location: UK Posts: 147
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Hi Dickey
I too find it more than annoying when the car takes over and you have to run around with lights on you don't want or lights you cant switch off or on . Its it because they are parking lights only to be used when stationary ????? |
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7th Sep 2022 1:33pm |
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| Dicky1961 Member Since: 25 Mar 2022 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 144
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Mind numbing. Why don’t they just call them parking lights?
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7th Sep 2022 1:50pm |
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| County V8 Member Since: 07 Jun 2021 Location: UK Posts: 147
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Don’t get me started on matrix headlights a solution looking for a problem
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7th Sep 2022 3:23pm |
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| LR Nuts Member Since: 10 Aug 2022 Location: UK Posts: 1140
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why at my age, been driving since 1972, do I need a computer programmer to tell me what lights I want on when. He doesn't know !!
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7th Sep 2022 3:35pm |
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