Yes I have seen that on other cars (non BMWs), no matter what position you have on the switch, the low and high beams are on all the time (low beams underpowered creating a yellow dim light). So this setting applies to both low and high beams and makes the light switch useless because the lights are on all the time.


Day time running lights is yet another setting that in the US only applies to the high beams (halogen towards the middle). As said previously if set to activated, the high beams will be on underpowered everytime the car is running. The underpowered high beams are automatically turned off when the low beams are turned on (at night for example).