Eos to France

[charles West]

Our Eos has the Xenon lights which swivel when you go round corners.
The dealer says that to go to France we need to take the car to them and pay about £39 to get them to convert the headlamps for France (in view of other correspondence I have seen, I suspect that they don't fully convert to dipping to the right, but in effect cut off the bit that would dazzle an car coming the other way (in effect just the same as sticking a piece of black sticky paper on the front).
then of course another £39 when we come home.
Does anyone know how to do this job themselves?
Or shall I experiment with black tape!
C.W.

[Huweth]

I'd suggest parking on a level surface facing a wall. Turn on the lights with the wheel straight. Put on some black tape that makes the light pattern flat on the wall. Then turn the wheel all the way to the left and add more tape to cover the bits that escape the tape. Then repeat with the wheel to the right. That's gotta be easier than working for several hours to make the £80 the dealership wants!!!

This of course depends on the car not needing to be moving for the lights to move...

Let us know what you end up doing.

[Caddy Van Man]

Agreed - see my post on the Golf forum - they wanted £150 to do this - I will look at the missus ones tomorrow and see if I can do a similar post for the EOS!

P.S. I'm The Doc everwhere else!

Link: http://www.forum.golfgti.co.uk/index.php?topic=51636.0

[charles West]

I have now trawled through various posts on various on various 'fora' and it does look as if converting the dip-beam for driving in Europe is technically quite simple, just move the little lever on the back of each headlight. The trouble is getting your fingers in there. I managed to move the lever on the off-side light with a pair of pliers with a right angle bend. I could return it to the UK postion with my finger. My brother-in-law could reach it by hand, he has smaller hands. Neither of us could reach the near side one.
Caddy Van Man's link seems to have been removed, and unfotunately I didn't save the pictures when I looked at it just after he posted.
Does anyone have good pictures of the access to the back of the headlight units, or the relevant pages of the workshop manual that they could post?
I feel that all I need is a little more confidence about what I can safely remove to improve access and I would be able to do it. C.W.

[RickT]

Just whip the headlights out and change it.... theres only 4 screws (torxs) holding the headlights in place..

RickT

[charles West]

You haven't got a picture have you?
C.W.

[RickT]

below is a guide for the Audi A4.. it could be very simlair..

RickT

[RickT]

https://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/forum/s...ead.php?t=7485

[charles West]

Following useful advice in these fora (sorry I did Latin at school), I manged to reach behind the lights and move the levers, pushing the offside one down, and pulling the nearside one up.
Success - of a sort, the lights have lost the nearside kick-up that is good for the hedge in the UK, but would dazzle other drivers when driving in France, BUT...
Now there is a flashing warning light on the dashboard that says "AFS Inoperative". Well, I suppose that I know that but I would really rather that it didn't flash away at me all the time.
Any tips anyone?
C.W.

[Huweth]

Don't know what AFS is, but if it's to do with Light levelling then you may have dislodged the gearing. Try changing it back and seeing if the problem goes away?