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#1 ·
Left my home in Wisconsin this morning in a snow storm. Rounded the corner out of my driveway and noticed it was dark in front of me. I looked down and the control was on auto and the display showed lights, but no. I drove to work with my high beams on and everyone hated me.

I don't really believe in coincidences and feel like the 2 bulbs didn't burn out together. I also was not able to connect my phone - not that it's necessarily related, but who knows? Wondering if anyone has experienced a similar failure and pinpointed/fixed the issue. It would be great if I didn't have to go through 'fixing' 3 things before the actual issue is found.

Thanks for listening and hope you all have a great Thanksgiving!
Colleen
 
Discussion starter · #5 ·
If you do a search on the forum for "low beams" you'll probably get enough information to understand your predicament. There's been a good bit posted on the topic of Escapes that find themselves with high beams only.
I found this:
The high beam solenoid in the headlamps default to the low beam position. Is it just one side or both? If it is both, I would suspect either your high beam switch or the BCM, especially if they both got stuck at the same time. As an easy way to check if its the switch or BCM, I would try to have someone turn your headlights on and off while the car is not running but in Accessory mode, if you listen near the headlight, you should be able to hear the solenoid click when the light switch is moved from on to off, if you can hear the clicking you have probably ruled out the high beam solenoids. Good luck and keep us posted!
Thanks for the advice. I will try to listen for the click and hope it's not the BCM.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.