High Beam assist

[sabingli]

Did anyone tried to retrofit this option, or does anyone know what you need to do this?

[tlionhart]

i gave audi a call to see if this was possible to have retro fitted on my car no its not possible. Sadly. What i do know is you need the auto rain/light pack to begin with. They said "no we wouldn't do it" and hang up... Like some secret MI5 gadget.

[ScottyUK]

Surely the effort involved in retro fitting it vastly exceeds the effort if moving the lever a few times over the life of the car?

It's the ultimate lazy aid!

[tlionhart]

but a great lazy aid just like the rain pack

[ScottyUK]

"Rain pack" isn't an option on the A4. It's just there as standard.

[sabingli]

i was looking into etka and elsa and for this retrofit you need to chage the winshield glass, the interior mirror and you have to remove 1 wire from Convenience system central control unit, and run 2 wires into Data bus diagnostic interface. I don't know if you need to change also the Data bus diagnostic interface.

[kodkod.84]

What's high beam assist then? Isn't it the little blue main beam icon on your instrument panel?

[Ivor Bigun]

What's high beam assist then? Isn't it the little blue main beam icon on your instrument panel?

Oh my god no. Its like having your own personal rally co driver especially if you have the sat av too
If you only drive on lit roads at night honest there is no point it does NOT work so as you would notice in street lights but get out on the un lit open road especially one with not much traffic and it's fantastic the head lights adjust up and down for speed and the full beam goes on and off by it's self and with the sat nav you see all the bends in advance it's on my 2011 TT honest it's nearly the best gadget in the
The only down side is you have to turn it on EVRY time you start the car if it stayed on and you turned it off when needed it would be magic I have never ever found I needed it turned off in 3 months

[ScottyUK]

What's high beam assist then? Isn't it the little blue main beam icon on your instrument panel?

heheheh

Ivor,

All A4's move the beam up and down with speed. I've read more posts from people who wish they could turn it off than like it. This is mainly due to the lag in the system i.e. manually they'd flick it on earlier than the system does.

Re co-pilot - when I first got Satnav I got lured into using it like pace notes. It works quite well BUT you end up going faster than you safely can and hence breaking one of the major rules of the road ("be able to stop on your side of the road in the distance you can see to be clear".

If you want the best headlight option then it's easily the Adaptive Lights. They swing around to the vanishing point as it my magic. As my head/eyes move they do too. It's an ace system ... and I can still flip mainbeam when I want to and not when the car decides.

[SunnyBard]

What's high beam assist then? Isn't it the little blue main beam icon on your instrument panel?

Seems the High Beam Assist is as badly described in the brochure as the Audi Hold Assist then ... I thought the HBA simply switched off full beam when it sensed oncoming traffic.