Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Fedorov
One thing I've noticed with the headlights, the "m" curved shape that they project onto the road in front of you... the left curve is quite high and nicely lights up the road edges but I find the middle (lowest point between the 2 curves) which is in the centre of the road in front of you to fall a bit too short and not illuminate enough ahead of you...
i.e. you can EASILY see the lowest point inbetween the 2 curves of your beam come to a halt on the road in front of you, leaving a good section of road ahead of that in total darkness - so I use high-beam as much as possible tonight.
Anyone else notice this?
|
I have not got my Civic (yet). But, I use to have a Passat that had Xenon lights on it.
I noticed this 'feature' almost straight away - One thing you will notice though is that, if there is say a road sign in the 'area of darkness' up the road, it will be picked out and lit up like christmas.
Do the lights on the Civic do a " up and down " cycle on swicthing the engine on. looked very cool on the Passat.
One other point about Xenons and HIGH beam. I think the common term for this on cars that have the feature is a BI-Xenon (BMW also). The VW seemed to have a flap that would deflect the High Beam down to a main beam under normal driving. When you flick the high beam swicth, the Flap would lift out of the way, and you would get a massive beam of light that lit up the road for a million miles in front of you (well not quite a million but you get my drift). It was great for 'reminding' the dozy twonk coming the other way that they were dazzling you. I guess this is how they get around the 'warm up' period of the Xenons - Obviously more expensive as well.