Lights -> Parking lights, cornering lights and roadside parking lights for your BMW X4 2014-2018
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Vehicle features and options
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This chapter describes all standard, country-
specific and optional features offered with the
series. It also describes features that are not
necessarily available in your vehicle, e. g., 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 country provisions
must be observed.
Parking lights
Low beams
Instrument lighting
Parking lights, cornering
lights and roadside parking
lights
Overview
Switches in the vehicle
General information
Position of switch:
,
,
If the driver door is opened with the ignition
switched off, the exterior lighting is automati‐
cally switched off at these switch settings.
Parking lights
Position of switch:
The light switch element is located next to the
steering wheel.
The vehicle is illuminated on all sides.
Do not use the parking lights for extended pe‐
riods; otherwise, they might drain the battery
and it would then be impossible to start the en‐
gine.
Light functions
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Function
When parking, switch on the one-sided road‐
side parking lamp, refer to page 99.
Front fog lights
Low beams
Position of switch:
Automatic headlamp control
Adaptive Light Control
The low beams light up when the ignition is
switched on.
Lights off
Daytime running lights
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Settings are stored for the profile currently
used.
Roadside parking lights
Concept
Headlamp courtesy delay feature
General information
The vehicle can be illuminated on one side.
Switching on
The low beams stay lit for a short while after
the radio-ready state is switched off if the
lights are turned off and the headlight flasher is
switched on.
Setting the duration
On the Control Display:
1. "Settings"
2. "Lighting"
With the ignition switched off, press the lever
either up or down past the resistance point for
approx. 2 seconds.
3. "Pathway lighting:"
4. Set length of time.
Settings are stored for the profile currently
used.
Switching off
Briefly press the lever to the resistance point in
the opposite direction.
Automatic headlamp control
Concept
Welcome lights and
headlamp courtesy delay
feature
The low beams are switched on and off auto‐
matically depending on the ambient bright‐
ness, e.g., in tunnels, in twilight or if there is
precipitation.
Welcome lights
General information
A blue sky with the sun low on the horizon can
cause the lights to be switched on.
General information
Depending on the equipment, when switching
off the vehicle, switch position
or
.
When emerging from a tunnel during the day,
the low beams are not switched off immedi‐
ately but instead only after approx. 2 minutes.
Depending on the ambient brightness, individ‐
ual light functions may be switched on briefly,
when the vehicle is unlocked.
The low beams always stay on when the fog
lamp is switched on.
Activating/deactivating
On the Control Display:
Activating
Position of switch:
1. "Settings"
2. "Lighting"
3. "Welcome lights"
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