Many of you will remember the saga of her Laydship's FL2's Adaptive Headlight's inability to adapt last year ( ref original thread: http://www.freel2.com/forum/topic7136.html ); well last night the dash warning light came flashing on indicating that the AFS was now locked again in the stationary position.

And once again, when you switch the ignition off the warning light goes out. Then Ignition on the warning lamp disappears, the headlights lights work but are not adaptive when underway.

Knowing how difficult it was to get it fixed last time - (Swiss LR dealers nil ~ UK LPR √) – I find this infuriatingly irksome

That is bad news after your previous experience. Did LRPR tell you what they did to fix it when you were over here? Electrical or mechanical problem? Upgraded to an ex demo, 7 mth old, Rimini Red/Ebony Napoli Auto HSE on 28th Jan 2011, added roof rails, mudflaps and side strips.
Gone - A great 57 Plate, Auto SE, Bought Feb 2009, Roof Rails and Mudflaps added on purchase. Blue colour, anything but drug dealer black.....

Could it be the cold, freezing the lens moving parts? Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Auto
Zermatt Silver
Side Steps & Mud flaps

julytourist wrote:

That is bad news after your previous experience. Did LRPR tell you what they did to fix it when you were over here? Electrical or mechanical problem?

Udash wrote:

Could it be the cold, freezing the lens moving parts?

There is an old SSM38850 about that.
See below, maybe it helps.
https://www.freel2.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11383/SSM38850.zip

Cheers Alex

PM sent to you this morning.

With less that 2000 miles on the odometer, the AFS warning light has come on three times now (2010 HSE Sport LTD Ed). Once when the ambient temperature was below freezing, and twice when above. In each instance, I turned the ignition off; restarted the vehicle, and the lights returned to working order.

I had the AFS software "reflashed" again (the AFS has now been attended to 4 times since Nov20th 2009) - by the recently appointed LR SERVICE ONLY CENTRE and not the selling LR dealer. Presently they are working i.e adaptive again - for how long we will have to see. If they fail again I will submit in writing to LR Switzerland an official complaint.

Hi,

Did you ever get this fixed athelstan? I have the same flashing light which is becoming harder to ignore!
I looked at that SSM38850 document and found out that I have stepper motors which are level NAA, not NAC or NAE as described in the PDF! (See attached picture) I don't have a white dot either. Does anyone know if this means I need to get new motors or are these "newer" and something else is causing the problem?

Thanks

Click image to enlarge

Woodan
The short answer is no

Whilst the lights do adapt when cornering in accordance within their operational parameters as set out in the Owners Manual the orange AFS dash warning light does occasionally illuminate.

The last time this happened was last August in France. So again it was stop at next decent café or restaurant, enjoy the view and drink/meal, back into FL2, ignition on and off we go. Until next time

No point taking it into a Swiss LR Dealer as they have never fixed that foible and a few others in nearly 70k kms from new.

You are not alone Ive had similar problems with the AFS on my BMW 3 series. Every now and then they go mad and point in different directions especially on roundabouts. Dealerships cannot pin point the problem and have replaced a fair bit of the original lights and black boxes. I think there is an inherent fault in the design as the lights cannot keep up with the steering wheel position whilst taking a series of fast S bends. Jules

Shame they never fixed the problem athelstan. I'm going to try "re-programming" the software and if that doesn't fix it then I think i'll just leave it. The lights work so I guess there's not much point in trying to fix something thats not really broken! Just need to train myself to ignore the flashing light...

Jules - I wish I could do a series of fast S bends in my freelander! Haha! 2008 3.2L HSE Zermatt Silver LHD

I found mine complain if starting the car when on a incline....

T Terran



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