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Oct 16th, 2018, 21:54 | #11 | |
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1) Shadows ahead of you dancing around all the time 2) The system switches down to low-beam in many occasions on which the other vehicles could apparently be well masked out 3) It also changes to low-beam as soon as there is some environmental illumination. In highway, you can expect to spend your whole travel with low-beam. 4) Penetration of high-beam is not so good for me. My previous bi-xenon were better. Summing up, a total disappointment for me. You are not alone!! Last edited by mdmd; Oct 16th, 2018 at 21:57. |
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Oct 16th, 2018, 22:15 | #12 | |
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Main beam ....when its working.....is better than anything else Ive driven though so dont agree with 4 in my case.
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Oct 16th, 2018, 23:22 | #14 | |
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2) Sometimes I guess, or we are missing something 3) Yes this does happen but certainly not as bad as my last car. 4) as per my post you can never have enough light, but it is pretty good for me. On my last car, there were times high beam would not come up when on high beam assist for no reason at all on a dark road, sometimes to the point I was going so fast it was dangerous, hence I used it manually all the time. it was like also you had to be doing 40 mph for high beam assist to come up, not good going down pitch black narrow lanes. |
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Oct 18th, 2018, 08:35 | #16 |
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It also doesn't seem consistent, sometimes it will work on dual carriageway/motorway, other times it will simply switch between high and low beams with no adaptation used?
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Oct 18th, 2018, 09:31 | #17 |
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It's designed that way. About about 5 minutes of driving at motorway speeds it switches to normal automatic high beam, presumably because it thinks there's no need for the full system.
I'm not entirely sure of the benefits - could be that the flashing effect is distracting to traffic a long way off on a motorway? Coming to a halt and moving off again resets it. |
Oct 18th, 2018, 21:43 | #18 |
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Interesting stuff. Just been reading an Audi forum regarding their system and it seems that although the Volvo is a little 'mechanical' in its operation, the Audi system is, whilst a higher resolution, results in drivers getting flashed a lot. Not once have I been flashed when using the adaptive mode!
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Oct 18th, 2018, 21:51 | #19 |
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A friend of mine has had a new A class for about a month now, has intelligence light system on that, he says he gets flashed all the time, lights too high, he took the car back to Mercedes, they checked it and said nothing wrong 2 days later he gets a letter for a recall for the head lights being to high and cannot be adjusted etc.
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Oct 19th, 2018, 21:05 | #20 |
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One week in on my new (to me) XC60 with the adaptive high beam and I've been flashed a grand total of twice during my morning 70 mile commutes (I'm out the house by 5.40am, a combination of A roads and dual carriageway). Both times were over twisty/hilly stretches of road where I could easily forgive the system for not spotting the oncoming cars in time.
Even this morning's mist proved no trouble. Loving them already! Steve |
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