Xenon Headlights

[Photo_wizzard]

I already have a thread on this subject, but it really is a bit of a scam, this switch businees, in my opinion. It should and could be easily accessible to change the beam whilst on the Euro tunnel. £60 plus all the wasted time visiting a dealer (1 hour away in my case) each time you go abroad is ludicrous

Stickers will not work! The reason being that the lights are not trained through a fresnel lens as were the halogen old bulb lamps. You will remember the patterns for creating the pattern of light on the road / pavement. The new lights are trained through a carefully designed lens, if you look at the beam whilst foggy you'll see that it inverts in front of the car. it would be impossdible to position a sticker anywhere that would effectively blank the stray beam from oncoming drivers, particularly on adaptive headlights that "steer" the beam as you drive around bends.
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[marklilley]

Hello - no we are not Diesel Dealers and sadly not famous either. We do need to change the lights, for the French equivalent of MOT as we are in France most of the time but Audi Workshops have no idea how to do it here! Thanks anyway. May drive it home to UK for MOT. Cheers - have now found the other posts related to this.

[marklilley]

Just to let you know incase anyone out there may need the equicalent of MOT - a Controle Technique in France on their UK Audi with Xenon headlights - after quite a few days the Audi Workshop here in France have had the information that they require from Paris and yes they can re-direct the Xenon Lights to face the other way like they do in the UK and it will cost 40 euros and take 20 minutes. (In the UK it costs 60 quid so about the same price) Can't do it until Thursday though. However a good result as won't be bringing that car to the UK much if at all due to headlights - but what of the rest of the people who regularly make the trip it works out to be a lot of money.

[rogerbrooks]

I have an Allroad (2009) with adaptive lights. Audi say now, despite saying the lights could be switch via MMI before I bought the car, that the lights can not be switched. There option is to tip the lights down so far that you light up 30 feet of road only, still light up the left side kerb, and get a fault warning on the self levelling system every time you turn the head lights on.

Not bad for a qualtiy car, this is an appauling con. Should be able to go to the EU and get AUDI's butt kicked.

I suggest we report any lhd audis seen in this country for dazzaling lights, they cannot adjust theirs either !

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