inHen
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I recently had my left dipped beam fail and traced the fault to the ballast, that had apparently been sat in a scrap yard by the look of it and had filled with water. The failed ballast had worked perfectly up until the failure, assuming that it also controls the movement of the main beam lens(?)
I replaced the ballast with a brand new unit from Zenons4U with the identical 5DC 009 060-02 part number and the HID illuminated immediately. However, the Adaptive Main Beam Assist is inoperable without the usual warning message in the speedo and when in 'AUTO' lighting mode the 'AUTO' symbol does not appear below the speedo when the dipped beams are on. I can't tell if the long distance function is operable on the motorway as traffic has been too heavy to test. The cornering function works with the steering and the separate cornering lights illuminate as they should. When the Lights come on the left lamp adjusts considerably more than the right before it finds it's position.
Last night I kept getting flashed by other road users and discovered that the left high-beam was activated when on dipped beam and the deactivated when on high beam where the right lamp functioned correctly. I had to turn off the engine and lock and unlock the car three times before this problem was remedied.
I'm wondering whether there is process that I have missed when installing the new ballast to allow the CANBUS to properly recognise the new item due to it having a different serial number to the old?
Any advice would be appreciated.
I replaced the ballast with a brand new unit from Zenons4U with the identical 5DC 009 060-02 part number and the HID illuminated immediately. However, the Adaptive Main Beam Assist is inoperable without the usual warning message in the speedo and when in 'AUTO' lighting mode the 'AUTO' symbol does not appear below the speedo when the dipped beams are on. I can't tell if the long distance function is operable on the motorway as traffic has been too heavy to test. The cornering function works with the steering and the separate cornering lights illuminate as they should. When the Lights come on the left lamp adjusts considerably more than the right before it finds it's position.
Last night I kept getting flashed by other road users and discovered that the left high-beam was activated when on dipped beam and the deactivated when on high beam where the right lamp functioned correctly. I had to turn off the engine and lock and unlock the car three times before this problem was remedied.
I'm wondering whether there is process that I have missed when installing the new ballast to allow the CANBUS to properly recognise the new item due to it having a different serial number to the old?
Any advice would be appreciated.