2017-Focus-Owners Manual

Lighting

Note: Typical road dust, dirt and water spots do not affect the performance of the automatic high beam control. However, in cold or inclement weather conditions, you may notice a decrease in the availability of the automatic high beamcontrol, especially at start up. If you want to change the beam state independently of the system, youmay switch the high beams on or off using the lighting control switch. Automatic high beam control resumes when conditions are correct. Note: Modification of your vehicle ride height such as using much larger tires, may degrade feature performance. A camera sensor, centrally mounted behind the windshield of your vehicle, continuouslymonitors conditions todecide when to switch the high beams off and on. Once the system is active, the high beams switch on if: • The ambient light level is low enough. • There is no traffic in front of the vehicle. • The vehicle speed is greater than approximately 32 mph (52 km/h). The high beams turn off if: • The system detects the headlamps of an approaching vehicle or the rear lamps of a preceding vehicle. • Vehicle speed falls below approximately 27 mph (44 km/h). • The ambient light level is high enough that high beams are not required. • The system detects severe rain, snow or fog.

4. The lighting control is in the autolamps position. 5. The headlamps are off. The other lighting control switch positions do not activate the daytime running lamps, and you can use them to temporarily override autolamp control. When switched off in the information display, the daytime running lamps are off in all lighting control switch positions. AUTOMATIC HIGH BEAM CONTROL The systemautomatically turns on the high beams if it is dark enough and no other traffic is present. When it detects the headlights of an approaching vehicle, the rear lamps of the preceding vehicle or street lighting, the systemturns off the high beams before they distract other drivers. The low beams remain on. Note: If it appears that automatic high beam is not functioning properly, check the windshield in front of the camera for a blockage. A clear viewof the road is required for proper systemoperation. Make sure that authorized personnel repair any windshield damage in the area of the camera's field of view. Note: If the systemdetects a blockage such as bird droppings, bug splatter, snow or ice, and you do not observe changes, the system may go into low beammode until you clear the blockage. A message may also appear in the information display noting the front camera is blocked.

• The camera is blocked. Activating the System

Switch the systemonusing the information display. See InformationDisplays (page 91). Turn the switch to the autolamps position. See Autolamps (page 76).

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