Evrosvet: experiment — logbook Toyota RAV4 2008

I have such a habit - to drive with the low beam headlights always on. Day and night, rain or shine, I always drive with headlights on. I get in the car - turn on the headlights, get out of the car - turn it off. For a year and a half already just got used to it. But on my car there is such a function as "AUTO" - a mode that itself determines whether it is day or night and turns on the headlights. The advantage of this mode is that if you get out of the car, you do not need to turn off anything, the headlights go out by themselves. The downside is that the mode works accordingly only in the dark. It seemed to me a convenient function, so to speak, to automatically turn off the headlights, and I decided to play a little.

I cut out "round pieces" the size of a coin "1 ruble" from a piece of oracal.

And pasted them on the light detection sensors.

Because everything was done in a hurry, it turned out carelessly and ugly, but in my case the main thing was to check how it would work. Everything works great, shines day and night. But as always there is one "BUT", I use auto start, both in winter and summer, and the headlights in the "auto" mode do not go out when the engine stalls, but only when you open and close the door and in order to somehow extend the life of your xenon headlights, to my great regret, I decided to abandon the venture with Eurolight. Perhaps, to whom this experiment is useful, I will only be glad.