Did you know what "follow me home" is for?

Zeioth · Feb 16, 2025

Because if you don't, you are welcome.

securespark · Feb 16, 2025

Well, without watching the video, I understood it was to light your way to the front door so you could get in safely.

Which is great if you drive in forwards, unlike us ....

ReintjeWA · Feb 17, 2025

I have it switched on but find it’s a little bit hit and miss, a button on the key fob to turn on the lights remotely would be more useful I think. I’m sure we all have our ideas about a button of the key fob though.

pjmmk · Feb 17, 2025

All it would do for me is annoy the people opposite.

securespark · Feb 17, 2025

If you could set it to switch on the reversing lights, that might be useful....

Alb · Feb 17, 2025

It's a facility that's been around for donkey's years that I've never once actually used.

Wizard of Oz · Feb 17, 2025

Traditionally, the lights cut out just as you are about to fit the key into the front door lock...

Ian Key · Feb 18, 2025

I never have it turned on otherwise you look back at the car trying to decide if you turned the lights off or not, and just as you start to go back to the car and check, they turn off and you still have to put the key in the front door in the dark.

Daedalusminos · Feb 22, 2025

Perhaps if they'd called it something sensible and informative like 'lights off delay' we wouldn't have YT videos to explain it

securespark · Feb 22, 2025

I first saw the feature in 1986 on the new Rover 800. IIRC, in the brochure, the feature was described as 'follow me home', "to light your way safely to your door."

kran · Feb 22, 2025

securespark said:
Well, without watching the video, I understood it was to light your way to the front door so you could get in safely.

Which is great if you drive in forwards, unlike us ....

No,I think follow me home is for people who don't have a bodygards...

ReintjeWA · Feb 22, 2025

I like follow me home lighting, but on the MG4 it seems the car only lights up when unlocking, when I lock the car (either on the door or with the key fob) the lights turn of right away, which to me is the opposite of what follow me home should do

securespark · Feb 22, 2025

I must try it to see if it works on ours.

Archev · Feb 22, 2025

Isn’t it an instruction for one’s caravan ?

Martinonline · Feb 22, 2025

The manual explains what you have to do to get Follow Me Home. See below:

AndyL61 · Feb 22, 2025

It's for stalkers.

pjmmk · Feb 22, 2025

I'd use it if it was possible to configure the thing to just use side/rear lights or the reversing lights. I park on the drive with the front of the car facing the road, I don't want the headlights shooting across the road unnecessarily.

ozzz · Feb 23, 2025

I have motion sensors on my outside lights just in case I have a wriggle thing on drive way, never use the car .

ReintjeWA · Feb 23, 2025

Martinonline said:
The manual explains what you have to do to get Follow Me Home. See below:

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I have it set to stay on after closing but it won’t, I guess you have to use the stalk sequence, sort of counteracts the ease of just hopping out the car if you have to shut it down first through the infotainment.

Edit: turning the car off through infotainment and pulling the stalk works like described in the manual, so at least I could do that if I ever really needed a bit of light

johnnyboy · Feb 23, 2025

securespark said:
Well, without watching the video, I understood it was to light your way to the front door so you could get in safely.

Which is great if you drive in forwards, unlike us ....

As it is illegal to reverse out of your driveway in UK this function is totally irrelevant

Did you know what "follow me home" is for?

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