Hi All

Had the AFS warning light issue today for the first time. Very annoying! It came on while driving and making a somewhat sharper braking manoeuver. The lights were misaligned then pointing down for the remainder of that trip.
The error light stayed on for another trip one hour later, but the lights were back to normal functioning, not pointing down anymore. However it seemed that the left light did not follow curves.
When home, turned car of and gave left light a hit. Started car again and error was gone.

Can this also be a bad connection somewhere in a socket connector? Any tips or experience welcome!!

br
ter

ps: off course it is an xk from 2011.

Damn! Today it happened again! What a crap. The driver side headlight pointed down and warning light blinking. Then a few restarts and knocking on the affected head light cleared it.

Not happy...

Last time I took mine in they said it needed a software update. When I was seeing errors, my lights were pointing forward and just not following turns, so it wasn't much of a problem,other than the blinking warning light on the dash. I did not have them perform the software update but I did have them do an update for my license plate lights and it worked. Pretty crazy that it required a software update for license plate lights. Why did they make this car so complicated electronically? Really could do without all the electronic wizardry.

Hi all,

May I ask if anyone successfully got rid of the AFS warning blinking light only by replacing the control module refered to in this technical bulletin JTB00353?

And if yes, did BOTH headlights play up and point downwards sometimes or only one light sometimes? The tech. bulletin says „headlightS pointing down“.

Br
ter

thanks!! Apart of the warning light in the dash, how did the headlights missbehave in your case, before you got it fixed with the module?
- both pointing down?
- one side pointing down?
- no problems at all with headlights (only warning light)

many thanks!!

br
ter

Meanwhile I spent a few days driving around only with daylight driving lights (=Aheadlights are on but not swiveling) without further warning lights. Also removed the left headlight for inspection and provided some wd40 to connectors and tiny amount on swivel mechanism.

This was 2 weeks ago. So far no more playing up from the headlights.
Hope it stays that way!! (But new trouble with TPMS with new winter wheels).

BR
ter

Thanks for the update. I also suspected this and checked. As far as I can judge looking at the headlight movement upon engine start it seems to me they do the very same calibration movements, no matter if in auto or non-auto mode (non-auto mode in my case also includes daylight driving headlights on, with „off“ position on the stalk switch).

Only possibility for me to have less headlight movements use would be to drive around during daylight with parking lights, which is in fact not legal in my country.

Br
ter

Hi all!

Unfortunately my swivel headlights warning ⚠️ has come back again various times. It comes on when in auto mode or even in “off” mode, with daylight headlights on.

After smacking the left headlight (it is always the left headlight thay points down when the warning comes up) and twice locking the car, the warning disappears until next time.

I am starting to believe that maybe my left headlight has a wiring bug or step motor damage. Would be very cool if there was a step by step instruction how to repair this.

Br
ter

hi Ranchero

Thanks! I heared that you are the expert on this.
I will try to find the tread you mention.

Best regards,
Ter