Like the title says is there a way to disable the auto high beam feature? In my last car there was a button on the dash. I am not finding one in the RDX. I discovered that flashing the highs CAN disable it for that drive cycle. Though I have found it does not always disable it and then I have to keep trying until it does. It would be nice if there is an option or button to disable the feature.

Found the following.

This does not always work. Infact just a few minutes ago I was trying this to no avail. It also has to be done every drive. in the last car once disabled via the button, it would not turn on until you hit the button again.

You have to hold it longer that the manual states until you see the icon twice blink twice. I turned the feature off on my 2021 and my 2023. I hate the calibration of the system on the RDX and hate the way to turn it off. When I had my Subaru I left the auto high beams on as it worked so much better, and if I wanted to turn it off, I just had to change the position of the light stalk to do it.

I will have to try again then. Are yours staying off between drive cycles?

The function of this feature on this car is better than the Rogue i had but stll turns on at unneeded unwanted times. Occasionally turning on then right back off in seconds.

Yes, mine is staying off between drive cycles.

Well just tried it again. Nope. Won't even turn off for the drive cycle now.

it's merely a very minor annoyance once and a while so not a big deal. But it would be nice if they just gave a menu setting option or a button. The menu option would not have cost them any more money.

Woo Hoo. Finally got it to turn off. I have only tried 1 restart so far. When I got off work at 5am I was going to wait till I got home and try again. At work I don't want to be that guy that blinds people sitting in their car that is directly facing me thus wanting to wait. Especially the highs and for over a minute straight??? Yeah not being that AH person. But then driving out the back exit of the parking lot the highs turned on then almost instantly back off when the lights hit a stop sign and reflected back hitting the sensor. They weren't needed in the first place. Anyways, no one was behind me so I took the chance and shut the engine off and then did the procedure. It took over a minute but ultimately that icon flashed the two times.

Thank you both for your help. Much appreciated.

Finally got mine to turn off. What they do NOT say in the manual that every time it will blink once to turn it ON (not what I want to do) and you must keep holding it past this point until then blinks twice. I assumed (incorrectly) that if it was ON the next time you pulled the stalk the only option would be to go to OFF. Now I know how to do it and theauto-highbeams are (hopefully) permanently off. 😊

I saw the single blink but kept holding. Though I was wondering if I had somehow missed one blink and was holding longer than needed. Now we know why the directions state less time for turning the feature on.

I would prefer a good old manual high beam on and off, but the auto feature seems to work well on backroads and turn off before blinding someone. Where its annoying is if you are trying to flash someone to make a turn or remind the slow poke in front of you use the gas pedal!!

I'm pretty sure you can still pull the light bar to flash someone even with auto turned on. Definitely works on the prior gen (2020 mdx), wife is out with the 22 RDX right now but I'm 99% sure I did it on the RDX too before.

So, I believe(I think) the lights come on automatically when you start the car if it is dark enough...if I just leave the light switch in the off position, will it stop the auto high beams from coming on ?

The off position on mine is just a momentary roll position that yiy cannit leave the lights in. The choices for mine are Auto/parking lights only/all lights on.

These control the low beams. The high beams are controlled by pushing and or pulling the stock towards you or away from you or via the cars modules/sensors if the auto high beam has not been disabled. If you want to disable the auto high beams then do what was said in this thread.

That's odd, mine goes on and off just toggling the high beams on/off, I don't have to hold it down for any amount of time. It's really annoying because they go on/off if I just flash someone. Worked this way in my 2022 and my previous 2019.

That is how they work before disabling the feature. Once you disable the feature you no longer have the annoying part of your statement. For me the stupid auto highbeams would turn on in my work parking lot just before coming to a stop sign. Then the reflection on the stop sign would turn them right back off. They also would turn on as I went up the speed hump with my front tires and then turn back off when I would go up the speed humps with the rear tires. In otherwords when the nose of the car was pointed higher than normal compared to the road they would turn on then when the nose of the car pointed down towards the ground they would turn back off. Just super annoying. Thus disabling the system altogether. By holding it down for the extended length of time you completely disable the system from being active at all.

I like the feature. It almost always works appropriately. High beams come on when they should and turn off when they should. On the rare occasion they seem to be turning on or staying on when they shouldn't, a momentary pull of the stalk disables them.

I assume the sensor is up on the windshield and maybe it gets a little dirty. But mostly, all the automatic sensors work pretty well for me.

I actually like the feature and don't want to turn it off, I just wish the activation was different than the high beam button. Sometimes I need to turn it off if I know it won't work well like taking a corner or road curve, I just don't want to flash my high beams just to turn it off.

The auto high beams will not switch on, unless the vehicle speed is above 25 mph (40 km/h), and will not switch off until vehicle seed drops below 15 mph (24 km/h)


It sounds like in both your examples, that the high beams were on (you were travelling above 25 mph) and they went off because you slowed to below 15 mph as you approached the stop sign, and the speed bump.

Well perhaps like their incorrect time needed to hold the stalk back, this too is incorrect. I say this because I am not doing 25mph going over a speed hump. Not that I am creeping over them either and being humps not bumps I am able to go a little faster over them. They turned on as my front tires went up the hump which seems like it would be due to less light reflected back at the sensor. Then as my rear tires went up the hump pointing the nose downwards towards the ground enough light would reflect back to turn them off. As for the stop sign the speed bumps are not near that. Also I would already be coming to a stop with the brakes on when it would turn on the high beams and then withing 3 seconds would turn them back off. Presumably when the light hits a sign that is past the intersection reflecting enough light back to the sensor. It does get dark at that stop sign so I do understand why it would turn them on but it is just annoying as they would turn right back off and I never needed them in the first place. This exact same thing happened in the same locations with my 2022 Rogue.

I work nights from 5pm to 5am so I live life at night more than they daytime. Neither car ever turned on the high beams automatically for my driving areas outside of work. They only ever came on in my work parking lot. Now that they are disabled no more annoyance from them.

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