The other night, my wife and I took the CS and stopped for dinner. When I parked the car, shut off the lights and turned off the ignition, the "gong" cam on and them message center displayed a message indicating that the parking lights were still on. I turned the headlight switch back to full headlights and then to home and then to off and the message wouldn't go away. I got out and noticed that the driver's side only parking lights were still on. I got in and started the car and turned it off, messed with the headlight switch some more but to no avail. I gave up and went in and ate dinner, amazed by the seemingly endless weird issues with a $60K plus auto. When I came out of the restaurant, the left side lights were still on. I drove to a store, shut the car down and everything was back to normal. German ghosts?
See the sticky in the complaints section for more on this feature.
sounds like the turn signal was still engaged. that's at least what has happened to me on a couple of occasions.
Page 124 of the manual to be exact.....
I think Kaiser has it right. The same thing happened to me and it was my left turn signal still clicked on.
Russ
It is a feature on Eurpoean cars guys. Does anyone read the manual??
manual
I remembered the "feature" about 10 minutes after I posted my original message. In previous P-cars, (e.g., the 2000 BS I owned), that feature was engaged by turning the headlight switch to the left past the off position.
This is common in the EU for night street parking. It is absolutely a feature.
I am embarrassed to say that yes I did read the manual, 3 times
, guess I was too excited or ADS?
Russ
Its on page 149 in the 2007 CS manual. Its not explained at all.... if you weren't familiar with the feature, I doubt you'd understand it if you read it.
Quote:
"
Parking Light
The parking light can only be switched on when the ignition is switched off.
Move the lever up or down to switch on the right or left parking light.
"
Terrible description.
EU parking lights
Alot of cars in Europe have this feature as standard however it does not seem to be used much from what I have seen in the countires in Europe that I have been to
This happened to me before and I had to call my salesman to be informed of the "feature". Guess I didn't read my manual.
Dash message doesn't help either. Says "Parking light on." I think, oh, the parking lights (first notch on the light switch after "home"). No, that's off. Hmmm. Then I remembered about the turn signal.
