Headlights for Europe

[alickswud]

does the roomster have the 'flat' setting for its headlights like the Octavia for use on the continent or do i need to get some of the sticky deflector things for it?

[cvennall]

I used sticky things from halfrauds on mine. The instructions didn't have the Roomster light set-up on them, so I just guessed where to put them on the headlamps. I did speak to the dealer before going, got some story about being able to do somehing to the headlamps that would change the beam pattern to suit Europe, but they did not know how to do it! They didn't know where to stick the beam deflectors either, hence the guess!

[alickswud]

Having looked at the Octavia 2 with its flat setting i have now established that on a Roomster 3 and probably on a new furby that all you have to do is tweak a leaver that is behind the rubber cover on the back of the headlamp unit, in fact i did not have to move mine as they were already flat when i picked it up! its a big old leaver on the drivers side of each headlamp unit!

[Stephen McVicar]

Wish I had known that in the Summer. I used the sticky things. I got them at ALDI of all places. There was a little slip of paper with new models listed. Roomy was one. They worked fine.

[StuartBell]

The beam pattern (dipped) on my Roomster is amazingly flat right across the width of the beam. The cut-off is very dramatic. It would certainly be worth checking against a wall to see if there is an issue with the left hand side of the beam pattern, on the lowest setting.

Stuart

[StuartBell]

Originally Posted by StuartBell

The beam pattern (dipped) on my Roomster is amazingly flat right across the width of the beam. The cut-off is very dramatic. It would certainly be worth checking against a wall to see if there is an issue with the left hand side of the beam pattern, on the lowest setting.

Stuart

Just checked: whereas some cars in the older days had an asymetric dipped beam which 'went up' at the left, and so would dazzle on-coming drivers on the continent, the dipped beam of my Roomster is flat all the way across, and would seem to me to need no correcting or blanking for use in countries where they drive on the right.

Stuart

[Meadway]

Err, ALL vehicles with European dip pattern in the "older" days had asymmetric dip: an even patch of light across the road with a 'spike' to illuminate the nearside kerb. My Roomster 3 (with projector lenses) certainly has. If your car has symmetrical lights I would suspect that the side-of-the-road selector is not properly set. And while we're on the subject, is there a selector on the projector lights? Haven't yet bothered to look.

John

[StuartBell]

Originally Posted by Meadway

Err, ALL vehicles with European dip pattern in the "older" days had asymmetric dip: an even patch of light across the road with a 'spike' to illuminate the nearside kerb. My Roomster 3 (with projector lenses) certainly has. If your car has symmetrical lights I would suspect that the side-of-the-road selector is not properly set.
John

You may well be right; there's definitely no 'spike'. What are other people's beam patterns like?

Stuart

[Meadway]

Higher precision in bulb manufacture and location within the light unit means that asy lamp beam patterns appear to have a level cutoff, but the nearside section of the cutoff is higher than the offside, so giving longer reach on the nearside. Have a look in Wikipedia for "dip beam"