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Old 11-22-2005, 11:39 AM
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Active Lighting System!!!

Ok my ALS warning has come on twice now inside of 3 months. The last was yesterday while I was pulling into my office parking lot and THE LIGHTS WEREN'T EVEN ON!

I treat these warnings as I would my computer locking or freezing; I reboot or, with the car I just turn it off and back on again. Each time I've done this the warning goes out & the ALS goes back to functioning normally.

Anyone else had this happen repeatedly?


Let me add that I keep my lights on auto.....
Old 11-22-2005, 01:05 PM
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I would say go to your dealer and have them check it out. Maybe the AFS is malfunctioning and they can replace the module.
Old 11-22-2005, 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by headersplus

Anyone else had this happen repeatedly?


Let me add that I keep my lights on auto.....
Not near the frequency you've experienced. Mine has done it 3 times in 11 months. Twice with lights off, one with lights on. Each time it cleared with a simple restart of the car and didn't come back for months. Since I'm an hour's drive from the dealer, I haven't had it checked.
Old 11-22-2005, 07:01 PM
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I don't use the auto setting and I have had at least 6 warnings in the last 4 months. Dealer said they couldn't find a problem.
Old 11-22-2005, 08:50 PM
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One warning in 10 months, about two weeks ago. Lights off, auto off. It went away at restart.
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I still have the same problems despite all the dealer attempts.... sigh...should've waited for the 2nd year...never again will I get a 1st year car! Argh!
Old 11-23-2005, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by drhite
I still have the same problems despite all the dealer attempts.... sigh...should've waited for the 2nd year...never again will I get a 1st year car! Argh!
Just remember that if nobody buys the 1st year car there will probably not be a 2nd year.
Old 11-23-2005, 07:22 AM
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Originally Posted by drhite
I still have the same problems despite all the dealer attempts.... sigh...should've waited for the 2nd year...never again will I get a 1st year car! Argh!
I said that after I bought the TSX. Oh then I bought the RL on the first year model.

That is unfortunate, perhaps try a different dealer?
Old 11-23-2005, 11:13 AM
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I still have the same problems despite all the dealer attempts.... sigh...should've waited for the 2nd year...never again will I get a 1st year car! Argh!
I am delighted with the reliability and the quality of assembly and materials shown by my first year car. Most of the "problems" I have perceived are due to my own lack of understanding of the systems in the car, the rest are so minor - mostly software glitches - that they pale in comparison with what other cars are going through. How important is it to get XM to refresh the info in 2 seconds as opposed to 15 seconds? Not important to me, at all! I haven't done and I won't do any of the TSBs because the techs will probably screw things up. In spite of all the "computers" running systems on our cars the cars are 200% more reliable than your average PC at home.

Have you checked on the reliability of BMW, Mercedes and Audi lately? Mercedes and BMW quality has taken a dive lately. I went to the San Francisco car show a couple of days ago and I saw Mercedes quality going down the tubes - plasticky interiors with tiny sounding doors when you shut them. BMWs have the same and lots of orange peel on their paint jobs. A bright blue new M5 they had showed all of the same and it had a $90K sticker. BMW interiors look down right cheap when compared to my RL.
Old 11-23-2005, 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by 1HOT NSX
minor - mostly software glitches - that they pale in comparison with what other cars are going through.
Heh. Perhaps, as a group, Honda/Acura owners consider reliability paramount and the relatively benign co-miserating here is a reflection of that fact.
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