Headlight beam deflectors.

[madbadger]

Just a thought while talking about spare bulbs on the continent, but has anyione worked out if you need beam deflectors?

Last I remember reading was they won't work with the fairings, so don't bother. Is that still the case and has anyone had any trouble doing this?

Cheers

Andy

[maddog-uk]

I did not bother and did seam to upset too many people. I guess though I kept my night driving to minor back roads and the peage.

[targarama]

I've never bothered. Firstly, if you're going in the summer you won't need the headlights too much, secondly, most of the cars in France/Spain/Italy seem to have badly aligned headlights which blind you and they don't get cross with each other or you (well me anyway).

[Antwerpman]

Really it DOES upset people, just usually you blind them and are gone so they have no opportunity to let their anger be known.

it is especially blinding when somoeone overtakes you on the highway - there is a point where they get the full force of your beams in their mirror - but as they are now past you how can they let you know they are unhappy??

Dont be a chav be a proper motorist and do the right thing not the easy thing

[madbadger]

Any guesses as to where they would need to go, antwerpman?

I'm worried it would be rather random and ineffective.

[Antwerpman]

I dont know the lights on the Tamora (just a TVR admirer not an owner) but there are a couple of possibilities. If inside the headlight cowl there is a `normal` headlight unit then you need to blank off the part of the lens that deflects the beam left to the curb. Normally this can be seen as a quite distinctive patter on one side of the lens - cant remember which but I think on a rhd car it is the left side of the lens.

If you have one of the newer type headlight units - like in the Audi TT - where the bea; is controlled by the deflector rather than the lens (you will then have a completely clear lens with no pattern on it) then there is actually a little `flap` which you can switch to block out that part of the lens.

I suspect that the Tamora probably has the first system, in which case you can just block off the offending part of the lens with some black electricians tape

[julianc]

No deflectors exist for the Tamora (the factory told me this). Therefore in Europe last year I stuck a few bits of electrician's tape on the headlight cover just to show willing. I had the odd motorist flashing me, but not many.

Julian