Hi all,

My wife recently purchased a white 2012 SD4 GS FL2 and, whilst it came with a few nice toys (running boards, power mirrors, auto wipers, heated front leather, bluetooth etc) it's lacking auto-lights which surprised us for a car this age but also given the auto wiper feature is present.

The auto wipers gives us the windscreen capable of it with the sensor housing etc, so I'm wondering if this is a simple thing to bolt on, with perhaps a sensor cluster change, new indicator stalk and a bit of coding?

The stalk we have doesn't have the auto option on it, and the controls for the instrument cluster brightness and headlamp leveling are all that's down there, with like a "coin slot" in the middle.

Can anyone advise?

TIA,

Chris.

interesting, like you, I would have thought most of them would have that function, I have the HSE with self levelling lights so my buttons looks like this

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Yes, my 59 plate GS has the auto light function, so I would be really surprised if the later ones don’t. Is it perhaps not working properly? Is the sensor on the windscreen clear? 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

13 plate GS TD4 here, no auto lights!

Might have come with a package, maybe winter package? Do those GS with auto lights also have heated screen maybe? Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

I wish! I don‘t even have heated seats!  2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

ChristoffLammiePie wrote:

My wife recently purchased a white 2012 SD4 GS FL2 and, whilst it came with a few nice toys (running boards, power mirrors, auto wipers, heated front leather, bluetooth etc) it's lacking auto-lights which surprised us for a car this age but also given the auto wiper feature is present.

My car doesn't have auto wipers or auto lights, but it does have auto cleaning!

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 Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

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Not so sure the lady in question would appreciate being called an “automatic cleaner”..........  Regards

David

Lovely i6 has now gone, but not me......

Please let me know if anything in my post offends you, as I may wish to offend you again......

"The lady in question" sure has some hairy hands in the second photo, lol!

Worms wrote:

Yes, my 59 plate GS has the auto light function, so I would be really surprised if the later ones don’t. Is it perhaps not working properly? Is the sensor on the windscreen clear?

My 13 plate GS has no auto lights.

ChristoffLammiePie wrote:

Worms wrote:

Yes, my 59 plate GS has the auto light function, so I would be really surprised if the later ones don’t. Is it perhaps not working properly? Is the sensor on the windscreen clear?

Interesting! Given that (I think) the facelift moved the switch for this onto the indicator stalk I would have expected it to be there alone with all the other lighting controls?

This is our current stalk (note the lack of auto option and only rear fog control):

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/233459790896?chn=...gEQAvD_BwE

And the one I'm looking at, which has the auto option as referenced in the user manual:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/1213789043?iid=28...IEQAvD_BwE


Makes me wonder if auto lights and front fogs came as a bundle perhaps? Like a "lighting pack" or something given the layout of the indicator stalk?

The windscreen obviously has the rain sensor in it for the auto wipers, and this contains the light sensor too so this suggests the hard part is there - I'm just wondering what else is needed to give us this feature? Maybe add in front fogs whilst we're at it?

EDIT:

Part codes for without and with auto lights on the stalk:

Without Auto: LR024624
With Auto: LR024626

Note that it looks like an incremental increase on the stalk part code for the auto option but without front fog control too.

Makes me wonder if I simply order the replacement stalk and get some coding done, we'll be in business?

I'd have to think you are right......likely will have to add them to your CCF with JLR SDD. Certainly, if it's a priority, I'd swap the stalk, see if it works and if not look to get it coded in. Might be worth a call to your JLR dealer to get an idea as to the viability, the cost and if they will actually do it. Now, you can also research Mongoose+SDD and start that learning curve yourself but they are inherent risks with programming your FL2, certainly do a thorough research if the subject interests you......

It might be cheaper and easier just to get the CCF switched to ‘Scandinavian mode’ and forget the need for auto lights! 2005 D3 2.7 Auto
Previously:
2010 MY FL2 TD4e GS - Now gone at 199,500 miles, about 135,000 of them mine.
‘93 Defender 110 200TDi CSW
‘87 Defender 90 4 cyl Petrol
‘83 110 CSW V8 - best ever!
Range Rover 2-door V8 (not sure of year - 4-speed box and vacuum diff switch)
Series III SWB Diesel

My 2009 gs has the auto light function, completely useless... just comes on when I start the car whatever the ambient light conditions.

I also noticed that in auto the headlamp washing is disabled

If you have halogen globes they will last longer if not turning on & off unnecessarily. They need time to get up to temperature for the filament to work as designed. Procrastination, mankind's greatest labour saving device!

Acoustic insulation ARB TPMS 3xARB air compressors After cooler Air tank On-board OCD pressure air/water cleaning Additional 50L fuel Carpet in doors ABE 2x1kg Waeco 28L modified fridge Battery 4x26ah Solar 120w Victron MPPT 100/20 DC-DC 18amps 175amp jumper plug Awning 6x255/60R18