Evening all,

I know there are a few on here with lowered cars, but this is a question for those who know about what happens when a car with factory xenons is lowered.

I'm looking to fit my Weitec Hicon GTs to the car soon, however I have read a huge amount of (often contradictory) information about what happens to the xenons when the car is lowered. My first issue is I don't know how much the Weitecs will lower the car by. The blurb says "30mm to 50mm", but that is on the kit which is generic across the range of Octavias, so I would assume that on an L&K it will be a greater lowering than it would be on a vRS. Does anyone know this bit firstly?

Second bit is that I've heard the levelling sensors get irritable when they're outside of a certain range, i.e., if the car is lowered by the same amount all round, then the sensors still know the car is level but because they're further through their travel, they have some issue with this. :S Does anyone know if they can cope? The front sensors seem to have a nut on the back of the arm (on the dogbone) which looks like it could be loosened and moved through it's travel to accomodate the change of ride height, but I couldn't see the rears from my look earlier, just the arm itself.

Finally, I've looked at the xenon adjustment sequence on Ross-Tech (which will be undoubtably needed anyway after the changes) and it mentions altering the level of the headlights during the programming sequence using the "adjuster screws" on the headlight . . . but I am a loss as to what screws are being referred to. Having looked at an octy without xenons, the only possible screws I could see are in the same places (two screws located through a hole in the bodywork, look like hexes with a phillips centre).

Cheers all.

If its a problem, I can swap you a set of halogens for your xenons.....

I think that those screws you have found should be the ones you need (I have one xenon in my boot at the moment). Inboard one is for height (on halogens at least).

Cheers.

So the ones nearest to the centre of the car adjust height for all the lights (main/dip & fog)? I had assumed that there would be individual screws for each reflector.

I think the setup is the same on the non-xenons; the screws I'm thinking of are certainly in the same place on a halogen unit.

Everything moves as one, including the fog light. There are no seperate screws for each reflector.

I think you already realise this, but if you fit a lowering kit, you may change the rake of the car, so will need to get the Xenons re-aimed properly.

I've lowered my L&K diesel. Had no problems at all. Levelling works exactly as it should and the beam pattern did not change. Have not had an MOT yet to back this up however.

I'm not worried though, as worse case scenario is they have to tweak the aim. This is inclusive of MOT cost and has to be done to most cars every once in a while/after a bump etc.