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Old Nov 2, 2022 | 10:21 PM
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One headlight on when parked

Greetings all. I’ve had my 2022 GLS450 for a few months now. The other day, I was parked and the key was off. About 15 minutes later I saw the passenger side headlight and taillight on. Weird. I turned the car on/off



One headlight lit when parked
and flipped the headlight switch a couple times and it turned off. No error codes.

Has anyone else seen this?
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Old Nov 2, 2022 | 11:53 PM
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It's parking light. You must have had the dial turned to the parking light
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Old Nov 3, 2022 | 12:35 AM
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It is possible to turn on a single side of the parking lights. You probably switched on the passenger side parking lights without realizing it. Same thing happened to me.
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Old Nov 3, 2022 | 08:38 AM
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Same here - I had inadvertently switched the light switch to a single-side parking light position.
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Old Nov 3, 2022 | 07:45 PM
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You all were right! I was not aware of the side only parking. Thank you so much!
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Old Nov 4, 2022 | 08:10 PM
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it’s a European thing, intended for visibility on narrow streets in foggy or snowy weather. I think I had a Porsche was it was activated via the turn signal when parked.
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Old Nov 5, 2022 | 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by ksalno
it’s a European thing, intended for visibility on narrow streets in foggy or snowy weather. I think I had a Porsche was it was activated via the turn signal when parked.
Hmmm...I thought it was a "Mercedes thing" to allow roadside service to find them. Kind of like a Bat-Signal, come get me I am broke down again....
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Old Nov 6, 2022 | 12:08 PM
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Mercedes calls them Standing Lamps. They are for street parking. And yeah its mostly a euro thing.
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