I tend to use the auto main beam function most of the time, although it usually dips the main beam slightly later then I would do manually. The reason for me doing this is that the other car then clearly sees that I have dipped from main beam, whereas when I dip a little more in advance, the oncoming car often doesn’t realise I am on dipped beam, due to the brightness of the LED headlamps and flashes me to dip my lights. Do others experience drivers flashing them, thinking the bright LED dipped headlights are on main beam, as it occurs frequently with me? If driving on a motorway, the auto dipping sometimes fails to dip for oncoming cars in the other carriageway and it’s these situations when I deselect the auto main beam by flashing the headlights. Typically this will not result in my lights flashing, it will manually dip the auto activated main beam back to regular headlights, so other drivers will not see a flash. Then I can manually switch between dip and main beam by moving the light stalk back and forwards towards the dashboard. When I’m ready to use auto main beam again, I flash the lights toward me, which switches the main beam on continually, as now back in auto mode, until the car detects another vehicle.
