Headlight glitch

[BoogieMan1]

So I've had this happen a few times now. I always keep the headlight selector in the Auto position as shown in the attached picture. But sometimes when I open the door I hear this repetitive chime and I noticed that Auto is not selected anymore on the headlight selector knob. In fact, nothing is selected - they are all blank. If I then close the door and lock the truck all of the exterior lights go on and stay on. I then have to unlock the truck, play with the selector knob and reselect the Auto setting. Then it is fine, and the lights go off when I lock up the truck. Anyone else have this happen?

Yes, had this happen a few times on my 2dr FE. It seems to have worked itself out as I have not had it happen in over 1k miles now (only have 2.2k now). I believe it was just the software dorking out.

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[NotApplicable]

It happens to me when my knee grazes the knob when I get in... The chime lets you know it was changed, so pay attention to what you did the half second before the chime.

SAME! This was my first knee issue with the Bronco… kept hitting the knob on the way in. Ultimately “resolved” it by adjusting the seat a bit and teaching myself a new body shape to maintain while entering the vehicle.

The other knee issue is that it’s very hard for me to adjust the steering wheel to a position where it’s the correct distance/height from my body and ALSO the large squared off column doesn’t completely block my right knee from coming to center normally when pressing the brake…

 

[Squatchn']

Yes mine has keyless entry, I believe they all do. I just assumed yours was way fancier with more buttons on the fob. My wife has an explorer and the fob has no blank area like ours, its got buttons for everything.

 

[Ksjrb03]

I had this happen a few times my first week with the Bronco. I figured out it was definitely my knee hitting the knob. Adjusted the way I get in and out and has not happened in months. Really bad placement of that switch.

 

[HamAndCheese73]

Just curious, when did you get your truck? I took delivery of mine on December 4th and it has done this glitch a handful of times, but it has not happened in about a week now. I've noticed that the sync system seemed to get bogged down a lot during the first few weeks of owning the truck, as I assume it had a lot of updates to download. The sync system has been more quick to respond recently, so my hope is that this issue will kind of work itself out.

Picked it up from the dealer on Dec 1st. So that's interesting that the dates are pretty close. Mine is still happening at the moment. Not every time, but still happening. As far as updates, I honestly don't know if I received any updates or not. And I also went through the settings awhile back and disabled anything that even remotely sounded like sending any information back to Ford, or connecting to anything outside the vehicle in any way, so I don't know if that would prevent sync updates.

Either way, I'm going to keep an eye on it I guess and hope it works itself out. But I'm happy that others seem to be having the same issue, so maybe there's hope that at some point the issue will be pinpointed, whether it's a sync update or otherwise.

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