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JimboD3
Member Since: 23 Mar 2009
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 348
  
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| Headlight adjusting (again !) |
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I know this has been done-to-death..........
I've got Xenons on the D3, and I cannot find the little levers that change the dipped beam pattern to LHD - admittedly I've not removed the light units, I've just used a torch and a mirror (and the pics that someone posted on here). I'll be going to France for a couple of weeks in July (via ferry, not tunnel).
We don't plan to spend much time driving in the dark - but I'd rather be prepared in case we do. So my question is this:
Will the stick on 'beam deflectors' be ok on Xenons - I thought I'd read that the lights get too hot or something.
TIA,
Jim Jim
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 10th Jun 2011 7:31 am |
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Skankmonkey
Member Since: 10 Jul 2007
Location: GLOS
Posts: 115
  
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Jim. I wouldn't bother at all.Been several times and never been flashed by other drivers on day or night drives.  Too many older Land Rovers to mention
If at first you don't succeed, Forget it!
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| 12th Jun 2011 6:39 pm |
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Robbie
Member Since: 05 Feb 2006
Location: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Posts: 17932
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Jim,
You have to lift the metal bracket and remove them to switch-over. I would not thought it possible to switch them without doing so.
I practised with mine before driving on to the ferry. Greasing them a little helped enormously as with grease you can pop the retaining brackets by hand with ease. Without greasing you may need pliers or a suitably modified wire coat hanger. Once greased it only takes a few minutes to switch them over. The wife and I had it akin to an F1 pit stop.
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| 12th Jun 2011 6:57 pm |
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choppa60
Member Since: 16 Oct 2009
Location: chelsea tractor land ....london
Posts: 904
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Jim had the same issues ,couldnt find the lever , so didn't bother in the end , drive Around France for a month , no flashing from the French at all , drove loads at night , nothing , so not going to bother now and I did hear of those sucky things melting on your xenons , so agreed don't bother ,maybe it's the fact that the xenons are not blinding people .
We are going again this year to France , so we are not bothering , 2008 ,hse, it does what it says .
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| 13th Jun 2011 4:52 pm |
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Popelka
Member Since: 31 May 2008
Location: Praha (Prague)
Posts: 2430
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I have done the reverse by driving in UK with left hand drive car without doing any changes to car lights with no problems or flashes or even stops by law, I think with xenons its a good bet dont mess with as other have already stipulated
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look at the light pattern against a wall and you see it's flat so I dont believe it will blind drivers on coming whether you drive on left or right of the road ... Experience is a difficult teacher, because she gives the test first and then the lesson afterwards!!!!
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| 14th Jun 2011 10:01 am |
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TwelveSticks
Member Since: 16 Jan 2010
Location: Dublin
Posts: 798
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This is interesting. I've not bothered to change mine when in France either and have also never been flashed (except when the suspension broke  ).
As Popelka says, the light pattern is flat - i.e. without the little raised triangular bits that halogen lights have. Which begs the question - what is the difference when you switch them form RHD to LHD mode? I'm assuming it must somehow extend the beam pattern on the near side, since I understand that's what these xenons should look like. Is that right? 2001 D2 GS (I must be mad!)
2005 D3 S 10-12 (gone and missed)
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| 14th Jun 2011 2:50 pm |
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