[thatllbe2000bucks]

I was playing around with my headlights and started the car with headlight control being set to 0. When I turned on the engine my angel eyes and rear lights still turned on. It’s a silly thing, but I am wondering if this is how it’s supposed to be? If I then switch to say automatic setting and then back to 0 my lights do go off.

[Serf27]

So with your engine on, your lights will stay on until you move the switch from 0 to A?

[thatllbe2000bucks]

Originally Posted by Serf27

So with your engine on, your lights will stay on until you move the switch from 0 to A?

No, if I start my car with the switch being in 0 my angel eyes still come on. I have never noticed this in my F33, but I guess this is normal.

[POBEP]

Originally Posted by thatllbe2000bucks

No, if I start my car with the switch being in 0 my angel eyes still come on. I have never noticed this in my F33, but I guess this is normal.

by design.
angel eyes == DRL (Daytime running lights).
you can switch it (DRL) on/off in the iDrive.

NB: I actually coded tail lights to come up with angel eyes as DRL on all my E-series BMW.
Tail DRL are country-specific, perhaps your BMW came from the region where tail DRL are required

[Serf27]

Sounds like he or she is saying the angel lights turn off when the switch is moved from auto to 0.

[thatllbe2000bucks]

Originally Posted by POBEP

by design.
angel eyes == DRL (Daytime running lights).
you can switch it (DRL) on/off in the iDrive.

NB: I actually coded tail lights to come up with angel eyes as DRL on all my E-series BMW.
Tail DRL are country-specific, perhaps your BMW came from the region where tail DRL are required

This is what I was looking for. I started to think that I had some problems with electronics, but after some further digging realised that it is designed to be like that. Pretty interesting, one would think that 0 = all lights off. Thanks