Am I missing my auto daytime running headlights?

[cdavid]

I have a package 8 and I'm supposed to have the auto daytime headlights. My owners manual shows three positions on the stalk. Position two, headlights on, and my missing position three labeled "Auto".

Would someone who has this feature check to see if they have the Auto position.

I noticed this because I could hardly see my Nav display in the daylight. I have to turn off the headlights to get it to be bright. I see the light sensor in the top on the dash, drivers side, as it shows in the manual. I'm confused.

Would someone unconfuse me, thanks.

[cwerdna]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cdavid @ Apr 16 2006, 06:17 PM) [snapback]240656[/snapback]</div>

I have a package 8 and I'm supposed to have the auto daytime headlights. My owners manual shows three positions on the stalk. Position two, headlights on, and my missing position three labeled "Auto".

Would someone who has this feature check to see if they have the Auto position.

I noticed this because I could hardly see my Nav display in the daylight. I have to turn off the headlights to get it to be bright. I see the light sensor in the top on the dash, drivers side, as it shows in the manual. I'm confused.

Would someone unconfuse me, thanks.
[/b]

I don't think you're supposed to have an auto position. My 06 package #7 doesn't have it. Since you have HIDs, you're probably better off without auto. See http://priuschat.com/index.php?showtopic=1...55&#entry233355 as to why.

As for being unable to see the nav display in the daytime, just turn the brightness of the dimmer wheel to the max beyond the detent or switch the nav display to Day Mode.

[auricchio]

Apparently the HIDs don't have auto; I have HIDs and no auto.

The light sensor isn't there on non-auto cars; it's just a filler plug.

[darelldd]

Nobody in NA south of Canada gets that, to the best of my knowledge. Doesn't have anything to do with the HID.

[Tideland Prius]

<sigh> Not this again. Sorry cdavid but you'll probably get the worse of it and it isn't aimed at you.


PLEASE read the beginning of the manual that says equipment shown in the manual may not relate to your vehicle. I'm surprised there's no Canadian owner complaining saying they have a loaded car and no HID or something like that.

[Godiva]

Just turn them on and leave them on. They shut off automatically when you shut off the car and get out. I think they even come back on automatically when you get in and turn the car on again. So leaving them in the on position all of the time is the same as daytime running lights. Isn't it?

I just turn my headlights on.

[cdavid]

I guess we don't have daytime running lights with auto adjust. Our 06 Sienna with HID does (reduces brightness by 50%) and I mistakenly assumed the Prius did as well. The problem was leaving them on reduced the MFD so it was hard to see, and I was thinking I either didn't have them or the sensor was not working (Duh, I don't have them). I'll just turn them off the old fashioned way. Seems strange they'd put this in the Sienna HID but not the Prius HID.

[mcitron]

The problem was leaving them on reduced the MFD so it was hard to see[/b]

It wont be hard to see if you rotate the display brightness wheel all the way up. That gives you the daylight brightness when the lights are on.

[Tideland Prius]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cdavid @ Apr 17 2006, 07:40 AM) [snapback]240882[/snapback]</div>

I guess we don't have daytime running lights with auto adjust. Our 06 Sienna with HID does (reduces brightness by 50%) and I mistakenly assumed the Prius did as well. The problem was leaving them on reduced the MFD so it was hard to see, and I was thinking I either didn't have them or the sensor was not working (Duh, I don't have them). I'll just turn them off the old fashioned way. Seems strange they'd put this in the Sienna HID but not the Prius HID.
[/b]

Except that your Sienna has a quad bulb system and the Prius is a dual bulb system. IOW, your Sienna has a separate bulb for high beams thus it can be used as DRLs. The Prius uses the same bulb for both low and high beams.

[Jim1eye]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rick Auricchio @ Apr 16 2006, 09:57 PM) [snapback]240684[/snapback]</div>

The light sensor isn't there on non-auto cars; it's just a filler plug.
[/b]

So that's what that knock-out plug on my front bumper is for. I'll sleep better tonight.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(darelldd @ Apr 16 2006, 11:05 PM) [snapback]240712[/snapback]</div>

Nobody in NA south of Canada gets that, to the best of my knowledge. Doesn't have anything to do with the HID.
[/b]

Daytime running lights are mandatory in NY, but I've been out of there 5+ years. Just curious, any NYers get it with the auto switch, or do you have to rely on just leaving them on?