Says a lot about the quality of their PDI's
or the driver scrolling the level-setter the WRONG way
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or the driver scrolling the level-setter the WRONG way
or the driver scrolling the level-setter the WRONG way
Not sure what you mean there. The highest setting should be the standard setting, so the only way is down. Load the rear of the car, then drop the lights. A challenge to load it in a way to raise the lights.
Sadly there is hardly a garage in the country that can set beams properly, most are way too low. They 'helpfully' adjusted mine at the last MOT, now can barely see where I'm going.
I assume people are talking about HID projectors, which should be self levelled....but are fecking awful in most cases, possibly made worse by generally speaking being teamed up with led fairy lights. There are cars out there with halogen projectors eg punto mk2.
Although people are fitting cheap HID kits to anything and everything these days. I'd prefer a converted projector car coming at me to a converted reflector car at least it's 2 concentrated points not a pink Floyd light show.
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The Nissan I had last week (they eventually picked it up Tuesday) had HID light and as pointed out even though they are supposed to be self levelling is was noticeably easy to push the throttle and get the level of the lights to point high enough to shine in the back windows of cars or into mirrors, and blind drivers coming the other way.
In terms of brightness I didn't find them to be any better than the reflectors on my golf, just a whiter light but certainly not any brighter.
In terms of brightness I didn't find them to be any better than the reflectors on my golf, just a whiter light but certainly not any brighter.
Main issue with "self levelling" in high riding cars is that the level is still above the level of comfort for other drivers If I sit behind a conventional car at the lights, the cones from my headlamps in the highest setting fall somewhere below the rear window and above the rear bumper. If my lights were 2 ft higher the angle for them not to be shining directly into car in front would be so steep down as to render them decorative for night driving.
On a range rover they'd have to be fitted at the bottom of the bumper not to be annoying.
On a range rover they'd have to be fitted at the bottom of the bumper not to be annoying.
It's normally the 4x4s with the lights that are the problem. I've no contest that they project light well and are very good for that. However for me, driving the opposite direction, they're AWFUL. Any time one of the 4x4s hits a bump you see them bounce as they blind you on and off for a few seconds.
Trying to diet and exercise while having a migraine and head cold
Its been a little foggy today but you can still see quite far without the need for fog lights so why the hell do some people insist on putting them on and leaving them on?
Especially rear ones which are blinding to me when sat in traffic :bang:
Especially rear ones which are blinding to me when sat in traffic :bang:
You'll have weeks of fun now, they won't remember to turn them off for days. If only most cars were fitted with a huge bright yellow idiot light in the cluster telling them it's on....
Aye. One of the reasons I like my Panda. If you turn them on they go off with the ignition and you have to turn them back on next time you start the car if you want em back on...
Same on the Mazda for the rears though the fronts will stay on until you knock them off.
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A mate not replying to a text I need an answer to, lol! :banghead:
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Had this all day trying to return housemate's deposits!
Not good!
Did you manage to get hold of them in the end?
Call him!
Not good!
Haha eventually. When I explained it was their money they were delaying.
One owed me money so I even got more deposit back that way than I'd expected. Good day in the end.
Had this all day trying to return housemate's deposits!
Subsequent posts confirm this is talking about money, but initially it had the imagination working well.:devil:
Also just found I missed my delivery I was expecting and no one was in to sign. Darn.
