Lighting Controls - CITROËN C3 PICASSO Handbook

Visibility

Lighting controls

System for selection and control of the various front and rear lamps providing the vehicle's lighting.
Main lighting
The various front and rear lamps of the vehicle
are designed to adapt the driver's visibility
progressively according to climatic conditions:
- sidelamps, to be seen,
- dipped beam headlamps to see without
dazzling other drivers,
- main beam headlamps to see clearly when
the road is clear.
Additional lighting
other lamps are installed to fulfil the
requirements of particular conditions of
visibility:
- a rear foglamp to be seen from afar,
- front foglamps for even better forward
vision.
Programming
Various automatic lighting control modes
are also available according to the following
options:
- guide-me-home lighting,
- automatic illumination of headlamps.
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Model without AUTO lighting
Model with AUTO lighting
Manual controls
The lighting is controlled directly by the driver
by means of the ring A and the stalk B.
A. Main lighting mode selection ring: turn it
to position the symbol required facing the
mark.
Lighting off / daytime running lamps.
automatic illumination of
headlamps.
Sidelamps.
dipped headlamps or main
beam headlamps.
B. Stalk for switching headlamps: pull the stalk
towards you to switch the lighting between
dipped and main beam headlamps.
In the lamps off and sidelamps modes, the driver
can switch on the main beam headlamps temporarily
("headlamp flash") by maintaining a pull on the stalk.
Displays
Illumination of the corresponding indicator
lamp in the instrument panel confirms that the
lighting selected is on.