Blinded by the headlight indicator light?
Discussion
I have had the car exactly a week now. Very happy and thoroughly impressed.
It was torrentially raining here in sunny Suffolk last night, so I though it would be a time to test how good she is in the wet. Considering the volume of rain and flooded roads, the car was excellent. It doesn’t leak either!
The only thing that became apparent in the dark is the brightness of the headlight full beam indicator light! Does this bother anyone else? Anyone come up with a cunning fix?
Elliott
It was torrentially raining here in sunny Suffolk last night, so I though it would be a time to test how good she is in the wet. Considering the volume of rain and flooded roads, the car was excellent. It doesn’t leak either!
The only thing that became apparent in the dark is the brightness of the headlight full beam indicator light! Does this bother anyone else? Anyone come up with a cunning fix?
Elliott
duplicity said:
I have had the car exactly a week now. Very happy and thoroughly impressed.
It was torrentially raining here in sunny Suffolk last night, so I though it would be a time to test how good she is in the wet. Considering the volume of rain and flooded roads, the car was excellent. It doesn’t leak either!
The only thing that became apparent in the dark is the brightness of the headlight full beam indicator light! Does this bother anyone else? Anyone come up with a cunning fix?
Elliot
Elliot, us townies don't have the much use for main beam but if it bothers you then stick a piece of blue coloured tape over it to mask the intensity!
And I thought that it was just me who got really annoyed by that little blue light. If only the headlights were equally as bright then I would be able to see where I was going too! Struggled through last winter with the standard candles because it is such a major job to change the bulbs - but I think I am going to have to upgrade to 100W+ bulbs very soon.
Yes - it is annoying isn't it. Think yourself lucky you don't have my indicator tell light - you can only see that at night!
With regards to the lights, I did two things
1) Fitted Philips vision plus bulbs
2) Cranked up the adjustment by around 4-5 turns.
I think that because the lights are actually quite low, when they are adjusted for the SVA they are set pointing very downward. I've adjusted mine with the car physcially on the road and a person in another car ~40 yards away and now it's much easier to see at night (and I don't blind anyone).
J
With regards to the lights, I did two things
1) Fitted Philips vision plus bulbs
2) Cranked up the adjustment by around 4-5 turns.
I think that because the lights are actually quite low, when they are adjusted for the SVA they are set pointing very downward. I've adjusted mine with the car physcially on the road and a person in another car ~40 yards away and now it's much easier to see at night (and I don't blind anyone).
J
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