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mrblonde

Member Since: 24 Jan 2012
Location: Cambs
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2003 Range Rover Vogue Td6 Adriatic Blue

Front fogs (LED) flickering?

Im either going mad, or I did just see it. would my front LED foglights flicker? Ignition was on, and I'm sure they flickered a couple of times, as in not even a second each time.

And last week a mate was sure he saw them flicker too...
What could cause this??

7th Oct 2018 2:16pm

AJGalaxy2012

Member Since: 11 Jun 2018
Location: Gainsborough
Posts: 1464

2012 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 V8 Bonatti Grey

I dont know about Land Rover but some cars (my VW Touareg) used to pulse the bulbs for a very short time, not enough to heat up a conventional filament bulb to test if it was there and OK. LED's react quick enough to illuminate at full brightness momentarily. It sounds like may be a possibility. BMW i3 Electric Car
2012 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8 (now gone)
2006 VW Touareg 3.0 TDi V6

7th Oct 2018 2:56pm

stan
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the FF has hot and cold bulb monitoring..both can be switched of with the iidtool..

7th Oct 2018 3:19pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

Member Since: 03 Aug 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
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2015 Range Rover SVAutobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Exactly the same as the VW system described above... Known as Hot & Cold running as Stan says above

7th Oct 2018 3:24pm

mrblonde

Member Since: 24 Jan 2012
Location: Cambs
Posts: 728

cheers all, so nothing to worry about

7th Oct 2018 3:29pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

Member Since: 03 Aug 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
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Yes & No sir.....

Im sure PC Plod might have something to say about flashing lights on the front of your car!

To be 100% correct, you should have the Hot monitoring turned off in the cars configuration files (CCF) As they are LED's you could switch the cold monitoring off too

7th Oct 2018 3:36pm

mrblonde

Member Since: 24 Jan 2012
Location: Cambs
Posts: 728

Ahhhh good point....

I'll be clearing faults and error messages over the coming few days once the new front air struts have been replaced so will see about switching the Hot (& cold) Monitoring off

Thanks guys

7th Oct 2018 3:43pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

Member Since: 03 Aug 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
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7th Oct 2018 4:06pm

AJGalaxy2012

Member Since: 11 Jun 2018
Location: Gainsborough
Posts: 1464

Every day an education! thanks guys I didnt know about hot / cold monitoring or that it could be turned off with the GAP tool. BMW i3 Electric Car
2012 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8 (now gone)
2006 VW Touareg 3.0 TDi V6

7th Oct 2018 4:44pm

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