sksvlad

I have a huge multi-eye sensor in front of the rear view mirror. I take it to be an auto high beam sensor which switches high beams off when there is an incoming car at night. But the manual does not really say this. So, is there auto high beam in my car or not?

Stiggs

I've never heard of that option and I don't think there ever was such an option on the CLK.
Does any Mercedes model have that feature?

MarcusF

I don't believe Mercedes-Benz revived the Autronic Eye, a headlight diming device GM introduced in the early 1950s and Ford copied a few years later. You may be looking at the sensor used on the rain sensing wipers.

FinnAussie

sounds like a sensor for the auto dimming mirror or rain sensing wiper to me

sksvlad

Here is the sensor in question

Stiggs

The white box looks like a speed pass of some sort. The bluish/clear sensors above the white box in the black area are the rain sensors for your intermittent wipers.

MarcusF

I wonder whatever happened to the headlamp dimming tech from the 50's. GM invented it. Ford paid a license fee a few years later, then nothing.

sksvlad

It is "alive" in a different technological shape. I drove my friend's Lincoln MKT and it worked well.
http://www.lincoln.com/cars/mks/features/Feature8/

KENNY94945

No on auto hi-beam.

This windshield senor is for the automatic w/s wipers.

cindyclk

Range Rovers also have it.