Freonpsandoz

I think auto headlights are a great feature too, otherwise I would just turn the lights on and off manually and there would be no problem. I have another vehicle with auto headlights too; the difference is that it turns the headlights off after the selected interval even if a door is ajar. Isn't that what most drivers would want to happen? I must admit that I continue to be incredulous at the attitude that a vehicle should require the driver to pay careful attention to ensuring that all doors and trunk are securely closed and to punish any mistake in attending to this matter. Are my wife and I the only ones who are ever in a hurry to do other things? I expected that others would view this as a serious design flaw and that somebody would have found a way around it.

The headlights on my ES300 stay on until the battery is dead if a door or the trunk is left slightly ajar. Everybody on this forum is talking about this "feature" as though it is completely normal behavior and nobody would ever expect otherwise from a vehicle. I don't understand the purpose of leaving the headlights on forever, other than to disable vehicles and sell batteries. I have only owned older vehicles before, and I'm completely flabbergasted by this. Can this "feature" be defeated somehow? Thanks.