High beam
Seal
- Color
- Blue
- Urgency
- Status
Most lamps light for a few seconds when you power the car on. That check is not a fault by itself. This page does not replace the owner’s manual for your model year and market. Icons are schematic illustrations used on this site. They are not offered as the vehicle maker’s artwork, and they have not been checked against it. They may not match the lamp on your cluster. Urgency levels are this site’s classification, not the maker’s. If they differ from the manual, follow the manual.
What it means
This blue lamp means the high-beam headlamps are on. You turn them on by pushing the light stalk away from you. They go off when you pull the stalk back, switch the headlamps off, or power the car down. A yellow headlamp-fault lamp is a different warning. On a Seal with intelligent high beam, a separate lamp means the assist is allowed to switch beams. This blue lamp still means the high beams themselves are lit. A car without that assist has only this blue lamp, and it follows the stalk.
What to do
Dip the beams when you follow another vehicle, when you meet one, and in fog or snow where the bright beam reflects back. A blue lamp that matches the stalk does not need a workshop. If a yellow headlamp warning is on instead, have the lamp unit checked.
Related lamps
Common questions
- The blue lamp is on in town. Is something wrong?
- It means the high beams are on. Dip them for other road users. The lamp itself is only reporting the stalk.
- A yellow lamp is on near the headlights. Is that this one?
- No. Yellow is a headlamp fault. This page is the blue lamp that means the high beams are lit.