B9 A4 - headlamp adjustment for continent?

B9 A4 - headlamp adjustment for continent?

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MJK 24

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Sunday 21st August 2016
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Going away for short break next Saturday. Cannot find anything in the manual about adjusting the headlamps for the continent.

It has Xenon's (standard on the B9) but I can't see anything on the lamps themselves.

Any help would be much appreciated.

MJK 24

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Shortest thread ever....

Just found a topic via a google on a forum called AudiSport relating to this. Answer from Audi UK is that the headlamps are not handed left or right so no adjustment is available or necessary.

Would be handy if they could note that in the manual!

MJK 24

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Sunday 21st August 2016
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Cyder said:
It's known as a Z pattern (horizontal each side of a little kick up in the beam) and is pretty much common on all LED and Xenon lamps.
Technically the lamps are legal in the UK and Europe because the beam doesn't glare the wrong side of the road (allegedly) however in our A4 (2013) the meter has the option for continental driving where it lowers the whole beams by some margin to eliminate glare, does yours have that?
There's nothing in the books, nothing on the lamps themselves and nothing in the MMI. Car registered December 2015.

MJK 24

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Monday 22nd August 2016
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Cyder said:
If you go to to 'Car' in the MMI do you get the screen in the image below? If I then choose travel mode it winds the lamp pattern down quite low.

No, travel mode isn't listed.