Hey people of knowledge, I have a titanium x 15 plate focus with every extra available. I put the car in for its MOT and it failed because the drivers seat was not working (electric seating). The people at the garage said they fixed it by replacing a fuse. Sorted. now I find that my follow me headlights do no follow me. I think they have used another fuse rather than getting a new one.

  I have looked through my ford manual and changed the F43 fuse (Headlamp levelling. Adaptive front lighting unit). Still not  working. Any ideas??

19 minutes ago, kmoore04uk said:

I put the car in for its MOT and it failed because the drivers seat was not working (electric seating).

I have been putting cars through MOTs for decades, and not once have I ever noticed a tester adjusting the driver seat (electric or manual) to see if it worked. Is this new, or have I just been spectacularly unobservant? 😁

13 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

I have been putting cars through MOTs for decades, and not once have I ever noticed a tester adjusting the driver seat (electric or manual) to see if it worked. Is this new, or have I just been spectacularly unobservant? 😁

Drivers seat has to move forward and back and be lockable in 3 positions.  You might just be inobservant, but also not all testers test equally... 

 

36 minutes ago, kmoore04uk said:

Hey people of knowledge, I have a titanium x 15 plate focus with every extra available. I put the car in for its MOT and it failed because the drivers seat was not working (electric seating). The people at the garage said they fixed it by replacing a fuse. Sorted. now I find that my follow me headlights do no follow me. I think they have used another fuse rather than getting a new one.

  I have looked through my ford manual and changed the F43 fuse (Headlamp levelling. Adaptive front lighting unit). Still not  working. Any ideas??

Do you mean the adaptive lights don't turn or the 'follow me home' lights don't stay on after ignition-off?

8 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Drivers seat has to move forward and back and be lockable in 3 positions.  You might just be inobservant, but also not all testers test equally... 

 

Now, you've made me wonder if the NI test is slightly different - we don't test for emissions from diesel cars here and haven't done so for over a decade!

1 hour ago, StephenFord said:

Now, you've made me wonder if the NI test is slightly different - we don't test for emissions from diesel cars here and haven't done so for over a decade!

Does Felt spec still exist?  Back in my Peugeot days, every NI 306 used to be slammed into the ground on silver 5-spokes (Cyclones/Lions/Lasers) with a foot tall sunstrip and a big bore exhaust blowing coal!  

31 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Does Felt spec still exist? 

Sorry mate, you lost me with that! LOL

23 minutes ago, StephenFord said:

Sorry mate, you lost me with that! LOL

Looks like it does still exist! 

https://m.facebook.com/FeltSpecN.ILadd/

Not sure if you can see that without a FB login but here's their banner pic lol.

12 minutes ago, TomsFocus said:

Looks like it does still exist! 

 

Yep, that's an easy MOT pass here LOL

Sorry fellas, I think the point of my post is that I think the mechanic may have taken the fuse out of the the slot dedicated to the headlights and putting it into the seat slot. The follow me headlights were working ok when it went in for the MOT. Why not now???

Still haven't confirmed which function doesn't work lol.

Follow me home lights are setup in the dash/stalk. 

But if you mean the adaptive lights that's a different issue.  I don't know why a garage would swap fuses when they must have loads at hand.  Quickest & easiest way to find a dead fuse is to touch them all with a multimeter.  Saves pulling them out and guessing which ones may do multiple circuits.

It is the follow me lights that do not follow when turning steering wheel. It seems like the motor in the headlights is not working. That's why I was looking for the fuse. Checked all the fuses in the under bonnet fuse box and all seem ok. The follow me home lights set up does not seem to be in the dash/stalk. 

58 minutes ago, kmoore04uk said:

It is the follow me lights that do not follow when turning steering wheel. It seems like the motor in the headlights is not working. That's why I was looking for the fuse. Checked all the fuses in the under bonnet fuse box and all seem ok. The follow me home lights set up does not seem to be in the dash/stalk. 

There's 2 different functions getting mixed up here.

Follow me home lights keeps the full beams on when you park at night to illuminate your gate or front door etc.  (Assuming you haven't reversed in lol). 

The lights turning with the steering is part of the 'adaptive' xenon function.  Are you using the lights in the 'auto' position?  Garages have a habit of switching the lights to 'on' for MOT and then leaving them there...  I always end up driving around with my lights on during the day like a wally for a week after MOT...

I keep the lights position to manual and not auto. Its the lights turning with the steering wheel that I cant get to work.

12 hours ago, kmoore04uk said:

I keep the lights position to manual and not auto. Its the lights turning with the steering wheel that I cant get to work.

The adaptive lights only works in auto mode on these as far as I remember - they won't turn with steering in manual mode.  Give it a try in auto instead.