Jimbo1959
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- Your Mercedes
- VW Scirocco. The Quattro, E350 CDi Blue Efficiency Sport Coupe, now both gone
Aye well, they say they $hit hits the fan in three's. The third issue has made it's self apparant, bugger!
Last night I went to pick my lad up from work and I could have sworn (which I did repeatedly and vehemently after checking them out) that the dipped lights on the car had lost range of approx, 10 metres, confirmed by my lad as, upon getting in the car, he almost immediatly asked "what's wrong with the lights Dad, you can normally see further up the road than this?"
The main beam had also reduced slightly too, the range difference of which I am unable to determine as my lad says "you can damn near see into the future with the lights on this car Dad" (love it).
Normally when the lights get switched on they do a little dance up and down and then settle. When I rechecked them, after discovering the change in the range, the little dance was not happening.
I went through all the options on the lights, convenience system etc... to no avail, trying to find out what had gone wrong/changed. What I'm left with is, to be frank, dangerous after getting used to the usually stunning level of lighting provided as standard. I was not comfortable or happy to do any more than 40 mph in the dark under dipped beam conditions. I just couldn't see far enough for it to be or feel safe. Ordinarily I would have no issue or indeed thought, about travelling at 60 mph on the same road when the lights were working normally on dip.
I had thought that possibly the lights had been manually adjusted at the MOT but discounted that as they usually self adjust/level each time they are switched on.
Now I am just puzzled, as I can't find out what might be the cause of this loss in range.
When I was going through the on board computer options there was one for Factory reset and my son suggested trying that however, I am a little reluctant to start messing about without further research.
Any suggestions guys?
Last night I went to pick my lad up from work and I could have sworn (which I did repeatedly and vehemently after checking them out) that the dipped lights on the car had lost range of approx, 10 metres, confirmed by my lad as, upon getting in the car, he almost immediatly asked "what's wrong with the lights Dad, you can normally see further up the road than this?"
The main beam had also reduced slightly too, the range difference of which I am unable to determine as my lad says "you can damn near see into the future with the lights on this car Dad" (love it).
Normally when the lights get switched on they do a little dance up and down and then settle. When I rechecked them, after discovering the change in the range, the little dance was not happening.
I went through all the options on the lights, convenience system etc... to no avail, trying to find out what had gone wrong/changed. What I'm left with is, to be frank, dangerous after getting used to the usually stunning level of lighting provided as standard. I was not comfortable or happy to do any more than 40 mph in the dark under dipped beam conditions. I just couldn't see far enough for it to be or feel safe. Ordinarily I would have no issue or indeed thought, about travelling at 60 mph on the same road when the lights were working normally on dip.
I had thought that possibly the lights had been manually adjusted at the MOT but discounted that as they usually self adjust/level each time they are switched on.
Now I am just puzzled, as I can't find out what might be the cause of this loss in range.
When I was going through the on board computer options there was one for Factory reset and my son suggested trying that however, I am a little reluctant to start messing about without further research.
Any suggestions guys?