mlurker wrote

I have G05 22 45e with LED headlights. I have coded anti-dazzle option and drove hundreds of miles at night time and recently noticed something is not working as I expected.

When it's activated, there is a high beam icon on the dash.

My expectation is that car always/in most of the cases activates high beam and if there is a upcoming traffic, it moves the beams out of the view not to blind the driver.

In reality it rarely uses high beam (mostly in a perfectly dark environment with no cars in front of far away), instead it uses low beam and moves beams when there is an upcoming traffic or a car in the same lane in front. What makes no sense since low beam is configures not to blind.

What should be the correct operation?

postbox1918 wrote

It works above 40mph and even after that it doesn't works in all traffic situations but as you are saying highbeam is activating in completely dark and empty road which means its the auto highbeam feature which is working and not antidazzle , in anti dazzle you can see the headlights moving. I think there's something missing in coding

mlurker wrote

Way above 40 mph I see the headlights moving, but it's in low beam mode most of the time. What doesn't make sense, right?

d4700 wrote

Hello, sorry to necro this thread but nobody else seems to have posted about this problem.

Did you ever find a solution to the anti-dazzle not working properly with Adaptive LED headlights? I've tried many things in ProTool without any success.

The salt in the wound here is that my LCI G30 530e, also with the basic LED headlights, functions astoundingly well when just removing 5AP from the VO and recoding affected modules as I did with the G05.

sammuller wrote

Which ESYS did you use? I’ve been reading a LOT before I attempt this on our G05 and was ready to try with 3.27 as downloaded from Shawn’s YouTube links but the launcher doesn’t have a G05 car series in the settings. The psdz (sp?) has a S18 folder which I saw elsewhere is for G05 but I don’t have that in the list for car series in the launcher.

Any pointers on how the get the right software versions to work with a G05 pre LCI?

sammuller wrote

Thanks for your reply! I have gotten a newer version of E-Sys from Shawn and then I bought BimmerUtility. I coded everything this morning but it’s not working correctly. The lights aim correctly, moving around based on other cars, but the actual high beam doesn’t come on unless no one on the road. The blue light is on pretty much all the time on a dark road even with a lot of cars around so it seems like it’s just the light source that needs to turn on.

Re Anti dazzle with LEDs, I know the LEDs are capable of anti dazzle as I had a 3 series in Germany with LEDs 10 years ago that did it perfectly. I can’t imagine these headlights not being capable. Also, I think they have more than 2 light sources in them. I can count 5 or so hot spots on the lens.

Mikubus wrote

I just confirmed with my LED headlights. My high-beams DO come on above 40 when the overall environment lighting is low enough, even when there are cars ahead of me. Seems like the following distance must be far enough so that the high beam will not light up the car in front. under the right conditions, I was able to see the high beams light up the signs on the shoulder of the highway I was on without affecting the normallight beam directly infront of me.

I guess the LED headlights just aren't as dramatic as the lasers, but anti-dazzle does work with just 2 steps in the most current Protools app (VO first, then turn on the antidazzle coding).

Mikubus wrote

I have Euro shadowline laser lights sitting in my garage that I plan to swap in soon. Just no time to tackle it just yet.

mlurker wrote

How far were the cars when high beam activated? It could be a regular high beam assist kicking-in. I did the same in Protools - VO code, factory default and then use a "cheat" option to activate anti-dazzle. Still far from how lasers operate:

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Be ready to spend 2+ hours for a hardware replacement.

Mikubus wrote

You mean the replacement will take several hours? Yes. I’m aware. All good. I’m hoping I can easily unplug to test first, before removing everything. Do you know if the battery needs to be disconnected first?

mlurker wrote

You might also need to code the headlights first, e.g. if you bought them not as one set.

Bambazonke wrote

If some US & Canadian owners could volunteer and send me a copy of their FA & SVT files preferably saved using E Sys software I could do a SVT comparison using different FA scenarios that may isolate and identify coding changes and help other US owners have EU spec lights.

Ideally I would like a vehicle with adaptive LED lights (552) and high beam assist (5AC) to minimise variables in the coding

sammuller wrote

I have a 2021 G05 with adaptive headlights and the HBA, but I already did some coding to try and enable the anti-dazzle HBs with partial functionality, i.e. it working somewhat but it cannot create a "tunnel" beam, probably due to the limited number of lighting elements inside the headlight. The VLD does work pretty good however.

To help you, I would have to "undo" my coding first and then read and save the FA and SVT files. Not sure I want to do that at the moment, but I'll keep your request in mind if I get closer to doing an upgrade to laser lights for which I think would need to revert to factory coding anyways (looking to sell the original adaptive LED headlights).

sammuller wrote

How do you code the headlights without connecting them to the car harness? I would be fully expecting to have to code both FLMs when you buy these off ebay from another car.

Where did you buy your lights? I've been scouring ebay and not finding any reasonably priced ones that are shadowline which is what I would want. I see sets of chrome ones for as low as $1500 right now, but shadowline are that kind of price EACH!

Re coding: how did you proceed with this? Plug them in, connect E-sys and start VO coding the FLMs? After they work together with the BDM and other ECMs, then code the anti-dazzle mods?