European driving - headlamp aim

Silverstar · Post by **Silverstar** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:28 pm

flybobbie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 8:59 pm I assume the E85 has xenon, one for main, one for dip. So dip reflector could be rotated to offset the beam.
E89 has HID projector.

There is a video on YouTube somewhere of someone with an E85 that shows that there is a lever to switch the lights over for Europe. It was that video that led me to take a look at mine and once I accessed the lights and took out the bulb the lever is there and you push it up or down to switch the lights for RHD or LHD.

I have done this twice once to switch it to LHD to pass the ITV and then switched it back again to RHD. Another forum member also did the same based on what I put in my thread.

Could it be that BMW fitted different versions of headlights during the years?

Jey · Post by **Jey** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:01 pm

Was thinking the same myself

jenniferlouise · Post by **jenniferlouise** » Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:00 pm

flybobbie wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:03 pm No switches or levers on E89 lights.(I believe so on the E85).
I have had them apart.
The shutter has a step to blank out the other side of the road.
The are handed for L or R drive cars.
Look directly into lamp you will see the shutter.

no help at all to this discussion, but just wanted to say that my Mercedes has a setting that swaps the headlights from left to right sided driving. No idea how though. I guess it’s somewhere in the 300+ page instruction book that no-one reads… clever tho

flybobbie · Post by **flybobbie** » Fri Mar 31, 2023 9:05 am

Use the beam adjuster and just wind the lamps down enough to not shine on the left side of road, or buy the aftermarket lamps with the hexagon drl's. Seem to come only in lhd version.

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:31 pm

This is the reply I got from BMW UK when I asked the question - Ive been Europe a few times since and never had a problem

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Silverstar · Post by **Silverstar** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 10:24 pm

ronk wrote: ↑Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:31 pm This is the reply I got from BMW UK when I asked the question - Ive been Europe a few times since and never had a problem

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Yep, it's the same reply I got from BMW UK except the part about adaptive lights setting since I don't have adaptive lights.

ronk · Post by **ronk** » Tue Apr 04, 2023 11:29 pm

I kept a copy in the car docs folder incase I was ever stopped by the Polizei for a lighting offence but it’s never been needed. Nor have I had anyone flash at me during the last few trips.

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