2014 TC Headlight operation

[windguy]

Can someone with a 2014 TC share how their headlights work?

With my current car, I leave the headlight switch on all the time. The lights turn off automatically when the car is turned off so it works out pretty good. I like driving with the lights on all time for safety reasons. It's really nice never having to bother with the headlight switch and forgetting to turn it on or off, which I've both done with my wife's car.

In configurating a TC Van I see there's an option for Daytime Running lights.
From what I've read these are just the front lights and not the rears.

There is also an option for Auto Headlights and these appear to turn on automatically when it gets dark.
I'm all for this option but if you get this option you're required to order two other options that I don't need: quick clear defrost at $300 and a radio with Sync.

thanks for the help

[tombright]

45,000 miles on my 2012. Considering updating in a few months with a custom build, as long as that takes. Ford apparently allows us to buy out of our all-included service policies and apply that to the new one, a major plus in my case.

Sync, like most Microsoft products, is embarrassingly, on occasion laughably, clumsy and out of date. I may be trying to engage the hands free, yet the binger fails to bing. Frustrated, I may press the button a dozen times and be met with only silence. Five minutes later, taking a notion, Sync will bing back my dozen requests for attention, too late for the dance.

Ford bailed on the Microsoft contract recently, only to sign with another dying development team at Blackberry.

Apple would be the logical choice to provide us with driver-friendly interfacing, and it has mentioned Ford in recent press releases, along with Ferrari. Steve always had little patience with dense code writers who demanded that a captive public memorize encyclopedic manuals lest the codewriters' afterthoughtty patchworks bind up and draw a blank. Steve, our very own Capo di Tutti Capi, demanded that the premium price we paid would purchase products which simply WORK. A bargain in traffic, a bargain at twice the price. Apple? We can only hope.

Were I to keep this Transit, doubtful at this point, I was considering having a hi-fi shop install a thousand-dollar aftermarket unit that would actually do what Sync so pathetically fails to do, so often.

If it had been a freebie, I could have suffered with Sync. But for the four hundred it cost? Better a hole in the dash that would accept, say, Pioneer.

[mrtn]

The DRL in Europe in new cars works as follows.

Daylight: LED fronts on, all other off

Twilight/Dark: Low beam auto on, tails on.

[windguy]

The DRL in Europe in new cars works as follows.

Daylight: LED fronts on, all other off

Twilight/Dark: Low beam auto on, tails on.

thanks Mrtn.

seems anything that's useful and practical for Euro versions is removed or dummied down for the US market.

I'd like to leave my lights on all the time and not bother switching on/off.

I think I'll just go to a local dealer and figure out how they work then I'll know for sure.

[Christopher Wilczewski]

Windguy,

Not sure if you have the answer already but my wife and I just bought ours and brought the XLT home last night. When you turn off the car with the headlights in the on position, they automatically go off.

Hope that helps.

[windguy]

Windguy,

Not sure if you have the answer already but my wife and I just bought ours and brought the XLT home last night. When you turn off the car with the headlights in the on position, they automatically go off.

Hope that helps.

appreciate you taking the time to post that. it helps a lot cause I haven't looked into it yet.

and I sat in a TC two weeks ago at dealer and forgot to check that. thanks!

that's exactly how I want to use the lights. leave them switched on all the time and have them go on and off with the ignition switch.

congrats on your new TC XLT - Van or Wagon?

maybe you can post what you got with options and some pics in one of the threads where others are posting that.

then we can all be jealous of your new wheels. thanks