Cornering Foglights

[snapdragon]

We have a 2017 KIA Sorento and it also has adaptive foward lighting like our 2006 A8. The KIA lights swivel with the speed and steering like the A8 but unlike the A8, the seperate cornering lights are garbage. It is just a fog light that comes on with the indicator - speed and steering angle have no bearing on it so it doesn't work well on roundabouts and turns off early at junctions, the beam is not very good either. The A8's also fade on and off. KIA's is a Mickey mouse implementation.

We once had an '02 C class Merc., the lighting was quite advanced compared to the A8, the lighting controller was called SAM.
If a bulb has blown, it would substitute another and display a message in the DIS, such as "Front left indicator malfunction, using foglamp as subsitute" and the foglight would flash.. Same goes for headlights etc.. If a highbeam bulb is blown, when flashing high beams it would flash the dipped on that side. Sadly, in those days the Merc quality was terrible, so this function was utilised quite often due to water ingress and bulbholder corrosion.

[Simonbartlett]

Would my a8 2008 have cornering lights of any sort ? The lights move down and up when you start the car but I'm not sure what type of light they are.

[Architex_mA8tey]

Originally Posted by Simonbartlett

Would my a8 2008 have cornering lights of any sort ? The lights move down and up when you start the car but I'm not sure what type of light they are.

Many D3 bi-xenon lights move up and down when you first start the car, but the cornering lights function would be visible when you look at the headlight unit in daytime as a bulb and reflector that face sideways and located on the side of the inner beam reflector that faces the outer beam reflector

[Simonbartlett]

So was that an extra on the a8 ?

[snapdragon]

Originally Posted by Simonbartlett

So was that an extra on the a8 ?

Standard on some, option of varying cost on others.

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[M-A8]

Absolutely pointless and silly.
It's called a fog light, hardly anything to do with cornering.
It's like telling people that now V8s come with a fixed frying pan for a morning fry up (eggs, beans and bacon) by opening the bonnet and placing all the ingredients on the inlet manifold but only after at least 30min of fast driving.