We're planning on hopping over the channel to the continent for the bank holiday in a couple of weekends time but it has just struck me that I probably need to do something about my headlights.
With halogen headlights this would be fairly easy but typically my situation has been complicated by having Bi-Xenon headlamps and I can only find conflicting information as to whether or not I need to visit the dealer to have the adaptive function temporarily disabled and the lights adjusted, or if beam deflectors would work sufficiently with adaptive Bi-Xenon lights. There are no markings on the lens stating where any masking or deflectors would go and the handbook seems to suggest that a trip to the dealer is in order so I'm confused.
Other people on here with the Bi-Xenons must have been abroad with their car so what did they do?
I did stumble across the information below elsewhere on the web but it's for a left-hand drive car with headlamp conversion from driving on the right to driving on the left and I obviously need it to be the other way round. There is no mention of adaptive lights though so maybe this only applies to non-adaptive ones (?) I can't find any similar information specifically for a right-hand drive car anywhere.
What are people's thoughts? Do you think the below masking technique would work with adaptive lights?
The masking strips on each light are different shapes so for a right-hand drive car I guess I would simply just put the square mask on the driver side lamp and the rectangular mask on the passenger side lamp (i.e. the reverse of what is shown in the pictures).
Source of the information below: http://www.seatia.com/secon-646.html
Or I could possibly just try something like these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eurolites-Headlamp-Adaptors-Driving-Europe/dp/B001P5SPJW
With halogen headlights this would be fairly easy but typically my situation has been complicated by having Bi-Xenon headlamps and I can only find conflicting information as to whether or not I need to visit the dealer to have the adaptive function temporarily disabled and the lights adjusted, or if beam deflectors would work sufficiently with adaptive Bi-Xenon lights. There are no markings on the lens stating where any masking or deflectors would go and the handbook seems to suggest that a trip to the dealer is in order so I'm confused.
Other people on here with the Bi-Xenons must have been abroad with their car so what did they do?
I did stumble across the information below elsewhere on the web but it's for a left-hand drive car with headlamp conversion from driving on the right to driving on the left and I obviously need it to be the other way round. There is no mention of adaptive lights though so maybe this only applies to non-adaptive ones (?) I can't find any similar information specifically for a right-hand drive car anywhere.
What are people's thoughts? Do you think the below masking technique would work with adaptive lights?
The masking strips on each light are different shapes so for a right-hand drive car I guess I would simply just put the square mask on the driver side lamp and the rectangular mask on the passenger side lamp (i.e. the reverse of what is shown in the pictures).
Source of the information below: http://www.seatia.com/secon-646.html
Or I could possibly just try something like these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eurolites-Headlamp-Adaptors-Driving-Europe/dp/B001P5SPJW