[Jamie]

Last night the headlights lit up randomly on my MME. I tried re-locking the vehicle remotely to no avail. I had to go outside and take the headlight setting off auto to get them to extinguish. Anyone else experience this? I have had the car about 7 weeks now and this is the first issue.

 

[Monte]

Last night the headlights lit up randomly on my MME. I tried re-locking the vehicle remotely to no avail. I had to go outside and take the headlight setting off auto to get them to extinguish. Anyone else experience this? I have had the car about 7 weeks now and this is the first issue.

I’ve not experienced this - but I can’t set my lights to be off with the “manual” light switch (OFF, PARKING, ON, Daytime Running, etc). Sometimes I just don’t want any lights on ( no daytime running lights) but turning the knob off only works for the period when the systems are on. Once the car is turned off and restarted its back to an automatic lights on setting. I did change the system settings (the screen) to default to no running lights- no luck.

Am I doing something wrong? Anyone else?

 

[MachDrive]

Last night the headlights lit up randomly on my MME. I tried re-locking the vehicle remotely to no avail. I had to go outside and take the headlight setting off auto to get them to extinguish. Anyone else experience this? I have had the car about 7 weeks now and this is the first issue.

Did you accidentally activate the ‘Headlamp Exit Delay’ feature? I’ve done it before.

Switching Headlamp Exit Delay On and Off
To switch headlamp exit delay on, pull the turn signal lever toward you after switching your vehicle off.
To switch headlamp exit delay off, pull the turn signal lever toward you again or switch your vehicle on.

Note: The headlamps turn off after three minutes with any door open or 30 seconds after the last door closes.

 

[Jamie]

Did you accidentally activate the ‘Headlamp Exit Delay’ feature? I’ve done it before.

Switching Headlamp Exit Delay On and Off
To switch headlamp exit delay on, pull the turn signal lever toward you after switching your vehicle off.
To switch headlamp exit delay off, pull the turn signal lever toward you again or switch your vehicle on.

Note: The headlamps turn off after three minutes with any door open or 30 seconds after the last door closes.

Well I exited the car about 4 hours before this occurrence so no I don't think that this is relevant. I did see this in the owners manual this morning when I started to look into it though.

 

[MachDrive]

Well I exited the car about 4 hours before this occurrence so no I don't think that this is relevant. I did see this in the owners manual this morning when I started to look into it though.

wow. 4 hours is a long time. TG the 12v wasn’t drained.

 

[Jamie]

wow. 4 hours is a long time. TG the 12v wasn’t drained.

honestly I don't think that the lights were on the whole time but somehow came on. Im sure there is a timer to shut the lights off after a while to protect the 12v battery from draining. I know my Edge has this safety feature. I will have to sit in the car and have a good look at all the settings I guess.

 

[Shrek]

How far where you away from the car when this happend?
I saw this as well when we where sitting down for a cup of coffee and had the car on the other side of the street.
Then the lights came on but only the DLR not the main light.
This could be the Paak detecting the car and turning it on and off if you are bearly in range.

 

[Jamie]

How far where you away from the car when this happend?
I saw this as well when we where sitting down for a cup of coffee and had the car on the other side of the street.
Then the lights came on but only the DLR not the main light.
This could be the Paak detecting the car and turning it on and off if you are bearly in range.

The keys are where they are every night. I suppose the phone could have activated the welcome mode but this would be the 1st time given its night time location. Usually the trim lights come on for the welcome but not the full beam. So far it hasn't repeated so hopefully it was a one off.

 

[jason1168tx]

I had the same experience. I always have the switch in the "auto" position, but one morning when I arrived to work the headlights stayed on until I went back and discovered that the switch was in the "on" position. I suspect it is related to the other little memory issues it has like climate settings or radio station.

 

[Jim Seay]

wow. 4 hours is a long time. TG the 12v wasn’t drained.

Exactly, battery drain concern; I'd get it to the dealer without delay.

 

[jason1168tx]

I have all of the latest updates now, and it was good for a week, but it randomly decided to change the headlights to the "on" position again this morning. And it still loses radio and climate settings, usually after a remote start. I often remote start to cool the cabin since its 100+ down here, and too often when I get to the car, it remote started but the climate is turned off.
Annoying.

 

[Ford Motor Company]

If you are using the auto headlamp feature and find that your head lights are staying on much longer than expected try the following to reset the system. With the car on turn the head lamp to the off position and you should see the amber indicator light moving with the dial. When you turn the car off the headlamps should work correctly and the amber light should return to the Auto position when you key on.

 

[jason1168tx]

If you are using the auto headlamp feature and find that your head lights are staying on much longer than expected try the following to reset the system. With the car on turn the head lamp to the off position and you should see the amber indicator light moving with the dial. When you turn the car off the headlamps should work correctly and the amber light should return to the Auto position when you key on.

I will try that, thank you.

 

[zvez]

I will try that, thank you.

this happened to me the other day, on auto the lights stayed on , I just cycled it thru and then back to "A" and fixed itl

 

[jason1168tx]

this happened to me the other day, on auto the lights stayed on , I just cycled it thru and then back to "A" and fixed itl

It's happened to me twice now.

 

[Ben]

This happened to my wife today - she got out of the car, lights stayed on, I reset the knob to Auto (it was set to On... possible she bumped it but I think the car had a mind of its own). 5 minutes later she got something out of the trunk (didn't open the driver's door so was nowhere near the headlight knob - quite sure it was not manually adjusted). Lights stayed on again, and I turned the knob to Off then back to Auto.

I'll watch closely to see if it happens again - seems like a common bug with the MME.

 

[DanNga]

Last night the headlights lit up randomly on my MME. I tried re-locking the vehicle remotely to no avail. I had to go outside and take the headlight setting off auto to get them to extinguish. Anyone else experience this? I have had the car about 7 weeks now and this is the first issue.

This has happened on several occasions with mine. I know for certain I am not bumping to changing anything. I have to go back to the car and change the knob to auto to get them to go off. Very annoying.

 

[jason1168tx]

This has happened on several occasions with mine. I know for certain I am not bumping to changing anything. I have to go back to the car and change the knob to auto to get them to go off. Very annoying.

Mine did it again on Saturday. Maybe the ones affected all do it at the same time LOL.

 

[Jamie]

This has happened on several occasions with mine. I know for certain I am not bumping to changing anything. I have to go back to the car and change the knob to auto to get them to go off. Very annoying.

I haven't had it happen again since I posted.

 

[jmoham]

This has happened on several occasions with mine. I know for certain I am not bumping to changing anything. I have to go back to the car and change the knob to auto to get them to go off. Very annoying.

Thought it was only me that was having this issue. Made an account here so I can reply to this thread. Anyone found out the solution to this? The only way to turn the lights off is to walk to the vehicle and switch the dial away from "on" which is randomly goes to on it's own.