Polestar 2 Pixel Lights configuration

[hak8711]

Hi What is the best setting to go with to activate the pixel lights.

[A-P]

To enable adaptive Pixel light:

Change Item 109 to "06 With AHB3 (Adaptive) Pixel Light"

That is all you need to do for that.

Some people above are interested in the car operating like the European and Rest of World(ROW) cars do: Where the "auto/adaptive beam" function remains on between uses of the car. On the US/Can car, the feature will always default to "off" and you need to twist the headlight stalk to turn the auto/adaptive beam function on each time you use the car. People have found you can achieve this by changing Item 106 HEAD LIGHTS TYPE from "11 LED type A, Pixel Headlamp with HCM" (the US/Can headlamp) to "12 LED type B, Pixel Headlamp with HCM" (EU/ROW headlamp). That does cause the auto/adaptive setting to "remember" it's last setting. That comes with the downside that the headlight modules set a code for configuration, they don't like the "Type B" config setting. Someone correct me if I am wrong here, there is not any apparent "problem" in use of the car this way, just that those codes are persistently set.

[hak8711]

To enable adaptive Pixel light:

Change Item 109 to "06 With AHB3 (Adaptive) Pixel Light"

That is all you need to do for that.

Some people above are interested in the car operating like the European and Rest of World(ROW) cars do: Where the "auto/adaptive beam" function remains on between uses of the car. On the US/Can car, the feature will always default to "off" and you need to twist the headlight stalk to turn the auto/adaptive beam function on each time you use the car. People have found you can achieve this by changing Item 106 HEAD LIGHTS TYPE from "11 LED type A, Pixel Headlamp with HCM" (the US/Can headlamp) to "12 LED type B, Pixel Headlamp with HCM" (EU/ROW headlamp). That does cause the auto/adaptive setting to "remember" it's last setting. That comes with the downside that the headlight modules set a code for configuration, they don't like the "Type B" config setting. Someone correct me if I am wrong here, there is not any apparent "problem" in use of the car this way, just that those codes are persistently set.




If i go to type B can i change it back to type A without any issues. I switched to type B and no errors appeared on my end 

[Power6]

You can switch back and forth. If there are no apparent issues with using the "Type B" setting it should be fine. Type B are technically the EU/ROW headlamps although I don't know what actual hardware difference there is. You will have a code set on the HCMs for config with the Type B setting on a US/Can car, but no lights on the dash or anything, just a persistent code set.

[glennda5id]

Do you guys think I can retro fit Pixel's to my 2021 Recharge? Would I need new HCM's or need to flash the HCM's?