When it 'rains' i.e. the wipers go on full for a few seconds then the lights will stay on for an age afterwards, but this is another option in settings you can select.
On the available settings then I've found that the early vs late makes no difference I can see, my Leon always has it's lights on a good hour before the street lights turn on.
That rain "setting" is the one I saw people talking about. Can that be turned off to stop the issue.
On the Obdeleven board definite talk of configuration
I'm hoping it turns on the headlights automatically when the wipers are on, which is required now in California when it's raining. It would be nice to have the car just do th
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Might be that circuit which is leading to the lights coming on if not the early / late setting.... dampness in the sensor as posted up above might be duping this to activate. Is there a turn off on that sensor. Hobson's choice may be.
On the pre 2020s yes your best option on early / late was late else you drove around with your lights on quite a bit. Late works well on pre 2020
Ateca's / Arona's pass on the rest. Works well.
Best bet for those frustrated is lights, late on and rain sensor lights off... those technical look into the "cool down" whether that's a setting referred into the link above. Cool down seems to be the one bugging people.
One for people with the car into coding whether there is a way of adjusting the cool down ?. Have they all got this long cool down once triggered or is that a fault specific to the car.
The rain sensor... the watering can moment and stop watch to see how common the issue is
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This end post for those into coding provides some parameters to check against the car:
I've an option in light menu but I didn't understand the functionality. auto enable light on raining
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30 second parameter in there against rain late whatever that does... other than that it's a programming bug they rolled out of not handling the parameters correctly if it's a common issue
. If not common then it's a fault on the car.