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EnglishLights -> Parking lights, low beams and roadside parking lights for your BMW i8 2014-2020
Lights
CONTROLS
Lights
Symbol
Function
Vehicle features and options
Low beams.
This chapter describes all standard, country-spe‐
cific and optional features offered with the series.
It also describes features that are not necessarily
available in your vehicle, for instance, due to the
selected options or country versions. This also
applies to safety-related functions and systems.
When using these functions and systems, the
applicable laws and regulations must be ob‐
served.
Instrument lighting.
Parking lights, low beams and
roadside parking lights
Overview
General information
Position of switch:
,
,
Switches in the vehicle
If the driver's door is opened when standby state
is switched off, the exterior lighting is automati‐
cally switched off.
Parking lights
Position of switch:
The vehicle is illuminated on all sides.
Do not use the parking lights for extended peri‐
ods; otherwise, they might drain the battery and
it would then be impossible to start the engine.
The light switch element is located next to the
steering wheel.
When parking, switch on the one-sided roadside
parking light, refer to page 129.
Symbol
Function
Low beams
Position of switch:
Automatic headlight control.
The low beams illuminate when standby state is
switched on.
Lights off.
Daytime running lights.
Roadside parking light
Parking lights.
Concept
The vehicle can be illuminated on one side.
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Lights
CONTROLS
Switching on
Headlight courtesy delay feature
General information
The low beams stay lit for a short while if the
headlight flasher is switched on after the radio-
ready state is switched off.
Setting the duration
Via iDrive:
1. "My Vehicle"
With standby state switched off, press the lever
either up or down past the resistance point for
approx. 2 seconds.
2. "Vehicle settings"
3. "Lighting"
4. "Exterior lighting"
5. "Pathway lighting"
6. Set length of time.
Switching off
Briefly press the lever to the resistance point in
the opposite direction.
The setting is stored for the driver profile cur‐
rently used.
Welcome lights and headlight
courtesy delay feature
Automatic headlight control
Concept
Welcome lights
The low beams are switched on and off automat‐
ically depending on the ambient brightness, for
example in tunnels, in twilight or if there is pre‐
cipitation.
General information
Depending on the vehicle equipment and the
ambient brightness, individual light functions may
be switched on briefly when the vehicle is un‐
locked.
General information
A blue sky with the sun low on the horizon can
cause the lights to be switched on.
Activating/deactivating
Position of switch:
,
Activating
Via iDrive:
Position of switch:
1. "My Vehicle"
The indicator light in the instrument cluster is il‐
luminated when the low beams are switched on.
2. "Vehicle settings"
3. "Lighting"
4. "Exterior lighting"
5. "Welcome lights"
System limits
The automatic headlight control cannot serve as
a substitute for your personal judgment of light‐
ing conditions.
The setting is stored for the driver profile cur‐
rently used.
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