driving on the continent - headlamp beam adjustment?

[Anatol]

Picking up the spare bulb kit to keep the gendarmes happy today (having forked out for triangle, yellow jacket, extinguisher, GB sticker, the list goes on!), the dealership mentioned that there is access through the wheelarches on a series 2 to easily alter the headlamp beam aim for driving on the right.

I was a bit rushed and didn't press them on it - has anyone here done this, and can you post a quick step-by-step for me to save messing around with glue-on beam deflectors?

Thanks in advance,

Tol

[ptp170]

I was going to post the same thread in a couple of days....looks like you beat me to it!!! I need to know as I'm off to the Pyrenees in a couple of weeks.....

[zasker]

No it is not possible you have to remove the wheel, then remove the wheel arch liner which allows you to remove the headlight lens. You can then flick a small metal plate across the light which makes the beam dip flat. From 2006 onwards you can't even do this.

[greysquirrel]

i added this to the list of things to do when i went around europe last year.. funny enough i never got round to it, similar to the stupid GB sticker

[crackthatoff]

I'm thinking the old skool yellow stick on filters would be alright

[bogie]

have driven 5000 miles in EU in the last 12 months and never bothered on any car ....had a few stops by the police of various countries and they never even mentioned it...personally I dont bother with it

[Zebede29]

bogie said:

have driven 5000 miles in EU in the last 12 months and never bothered on any car ....had a few stops by the police of various countries and they never even mentioned it...personally I dont bother with it

I didn't bother personally either when I took my old S1 to the Nurburgring in June, I only needed my lights on during a torrential downpour through Belgium on the way home and to be honest I think everyone was more concerned with keeping their cars on the road in the flood (I was creating a bow wave as I drove along the slow lane it was that deep!) than whether my headlights were pointing the right way!

Must admit though, if we all just decided "can't be bothered" then the Europeans would prob be banning us from getting off the Chunnel train until it was done, they'd be that fed up of us blinding them!!

[tricky 100]

Never bothered all the times i've driven there . Yellow jacket ?? whats that about then ?

[Raify]

Put it another way:

Have you ever seen a foreign LHD vehicle with headlamp adjusters on it, driving in England?

Me neither, I never bother adjusting any car that requires more than a flick of a switch.

[jondude]

Or just put a piece of black insulation tape on each lamp where you think it should be.

This will keep PC Petty happy, and it makes it look like you have made the effort.

Driving on foreign roads at night with the Elise lights is pretty much not an option, anyhow! ( Or stick to major roads, unless you have the eyes of an owl )

[Heesen]

Spent alot of time over in Holland, France and Italy and never altered the lights. Never been stopped. Yellow lights in Europe I think finished years ago.