Driving Abroad - and lights

[LC860G]

Hi

Am taking the VXR8 to France for a week soon and just wondered if there is a useful shutter on the lights to make them compliant for driving on the right hand side or whether I am going to have to resort to tape or some other form of conversion.

Having read through the manual, I am not hopeful!

Anyone tried it? If so, how do you work out where to put the tape!

Thanks

Phil

[donk vxr]

LC860G said:

Hi

Am taking the VXR8 to France for a week soon and just wondered if there is a useful shutter on the lights to make them compliant for driving on the right hand side or whether I am going to have to resort to tape or some other form of conversion.

Having read through the manual, I am not hopeful!

Anyone tried it? If so, how do you work out where to put the tape!

Thanks

Phil

Hi, had the same problem a few months back, I just had some beam benders in the glovebox just in case,I was stopped for speeding (nice road) and the gendarmarie did not mention the lights, once they worked out what it was. Saying that there is an allen key adjustment on top of the light,you should be able to turn that for EU motoring........

[anonymous-user]

Point the front of the car a few feet away from a wall or your garage door with the lights on. The raised section of the beam to the left should be obvious. Use a bit of cardboard as a mask and experiment to find out which part of the headlamp glass needs masking to cut off the upper section of the beam. Then mask it using black insulation tape.

[Lewis07-Hitman]

Never bother mate and never had any probs with Ro and Disco. You could always paint the lamps yellow.

[LC860G]

GSE said:

Point the front of the car a few feet away from a wall or your garage door with the lights on. The raised section of the beam to the left should be obvious. Use a bit of cardboard as a mask and experiment to find out which part of the headlamp glass needs masking to cut off the upper section of the beam. Then mask it using black insulation tape.

Thanks - worked a treat

Also, the R8 satnav is damn useful - I was a bit dubious to start but it has a full European set of maps and got me through Paris no problem - so that is a lot easier than upgrading the TomTom!

[ringram]

What satnav? Is that an option?

[LC860G]

ringram said:

What satnav? Is that an option?

Yep - it's not cheap and I wouldnt pay £1200 for it but it came with the car so I'm not complaining. It is a dealer retro fit option however.

It is a Blaupunkt unit, sits in the glovebox and integrates with the screen already in the car - using the NAV button at the top right!

You cant enter addresses via postcode - you have to pick country, town, street and number - so it's a bit fiddly to program in, but well worth it after that.

[V2RAC]

LC860G said:

ringram said:

What satnav? Is that an option?

Yep - it's not cheap and I wouldnt pay £1200 for it but it came with the car so I'm not complaining. It is a dealer retro fit option however.

It is a Blaupunkt unit, sits in the glovebox and integrates with the screen already in the car - using the NAV button at the top right!

You cant enter addresses via postcode - you have to pick country, town, street and number - so it's a bit fiddly to program in, but well worth it after that.

It's £1500 iirc not £1200 and it's not 3D either. As you say a pig to operate, the instruction manual is half an inch thick. Absolutley crap value. Better off with a Tom Tom.

[ukvoyager.info]

V2RAC said:

It's £1500 iirc not £1200 and it's not 3D either. As you say a pig to operate, the instruction manual is half an inch thick. Absolutley crap value. Better off with a Tom Tom.

Are you not talking about every in car satnav there? Show me one that isn't a complete rip off with worse functionality than a portable unit that's over half the price. I am sure the dealers and manufacturers make healthy margins on satnav systems.

What gets me is when buyers guides say you should avoid cars that don't have it fitted.