I discovered a feature I didn't know about yesterday. Although it's not documented in the manual, it appears that if you accidentally leave headlights on ("on", not "auto"), and walk away from the car, at some point they'll turn themselves off to save the battery.
I experimented a bit yesterday, and drove to work with lowbeams and highbeams on. I was trying to see if the heat build-up would do anything to clear the condensation in the (cracked) housing. Unfortunately, once I got to my parkade, I must have walked away with the lights left on. But 8 hours later, when I came back to the car, the lights were off, but the car started without a hiccup. They must have turned themselves off; even though the battery is fairly new, running it down like that all day surely would have killed it.
Has anyone else seen this?
I experimented a bit yesterday, and drove to work with lowbeams and highbeams on. I was trying to see if the heat build-up would do anything to clear the condensation in the (cracked) housing. Unfortunately, once I got to my parkade, I must have walked away with the lights left on. But 8 hours later, when I came back to the car, the lights were off, but the car started without a hiccup. They must have turned themselves off; even though the battery is fairly new, running it down like that all day surely would have killed it.
Has anyone else seen this?