Citroen C3: Lighting and visibility / Guide-me-home and welcome lighting

Citroen C3 2016-2025 Owners Manual / Lighting and visibility / Guide-me-home and welcome lighting

Guide-me-home lighting

Automatic

With the ring in the "AUTO" position, when the light is poor, the dipped beam headlamps come on automatically when the ignition is switched off.

You can activate/deactivate this function and adjust the guide-me-home lighting duration in the vehicle configuration menu.

Manual

Citroen C3. Guide-me-home and welcome lighting

With the ignition off, pull the lighting control stalk toward you ("headlamp flash") to activate/ deactivate the function.

Manual guide-me-home lighting goes off automatically after a period of time.

Welcome lighting

With the "Automatic headlamp illumination" function activated, in poor light, the sidelamps and dipped beam headlamps come on automatically when the vehicle is unlocked. Activation, deactivation and the duration of the exterior welcome lighting are set in the vehicle configuration menu.

Daytime running lamps/Sidelamps

These lamps at the front and rear of the vehicle light up automatically when the engine starts. They perform the following functions: Daytime running lamps (lighting control stalk at position "0" or "AUTO" with adequate ambient light)...

Automatic headlamp dipping

When the ring is in the "AUTO” position, this system automatically switches between dipped and main beam headlamps according to the lighting and traffic conditions, using a camera located at the top of the windscreen...

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