D2 drivers... Do people flash their lights at you at night?

[Surf]

It seems like people do this to me all the time. I've tried to adjust my headlight beams downward, but it looks like they are as far down as possible already (Maybe I'm missing something here.) It also seems like taller vehicles do it alot more often than shorter vehicles such as cars.

Anyone else have this problem? I hate when someone passes me and has bright lights, I hate to be doing it myself.

 

[scottjal]

Never for me, but I have SLS so the truck is always level.

 

[Herkvet]

No, it doesn't happen to me. I've got the silverstar bulbs too, which seem a little brighter than stock.
Maybe you have hi-watt bulbs(?)

 

[Arnival]

I have a D1 and it happen a lot.

 

[atomicmoose]

Sometimes when I have the fogs on...but not usually.

 

[Dave Legacy]

It's never happend to me, but I wouldn't worry about it much if it did. Even if someone feels inconvenienced by your headlights it will only be for a fraction of a moment. As long as your headlights and bulbs are both DOT compliant there are no worries, people are simply annoyed that your headlights are so much brighter than yours.

I'd imagine your headlamps themselves are the same USDM spec that came with the vehicle, right? Headlight lenses/reflectors are designed to direct the light output towards the shoulder away from oncoming traffic. I don't know how it works for Rovers, but RHD Specification vehicles do the same, but it's ineffective if used where traffic uses the right side (LHD Vehicles). I have this problem on my S13 as I have Hella Euro-Spec H4 Conversion Headlamps.

It could be that the previous owner, if there was a previous owner, swapped out the headlights for some European Specs. Again, I don't know how this applies to rovers, but a lot of times foreign market headlights will lack bulb covers that limit the amount of light put on the road, lens made of glass instead of plastic, clear lens instead of crosshatched, or lack amber reflectors.

 

[Sin39]

I was under the impression that there were no such thing as euro (e-code) headlamps...

 

[Rover Puppy]

...Anyone else have this problem? I hate when someone passes me and has bright lights, I hate to be doing it myself.

It happens to me occasionally.

Like you, it concerns me when it happens... because I hate it when someone comes at me with their bright lights on.

Even worse, is when someone behind me has their bright lights on. I think the height of the D2 is really bad for that scenario. It's impossible to angle the side view mirrors to stop the glare. It seems like whenever that happens, I'm never on a good road to pull over and let them pass. I have to roll down my window and pull the drivers side mirror toward my truck, then put the rear view mirror up towards the ceiling until the other vehicle is gone.

 

[jeffro0502]

I was under the impression that there were no such thing as euro (e-code) headlamps...

I have euro spec H4s in my 944 and it's about as low to the ground as you can get and I still have people flasing their lights at me at night.

 

[Sin39]

I have had euro lamps in several european cars (mk2 GTI, mk3 Jetta, Peugeot 405mi16) and have never had anyone flash thier highbeams at me, the cutoff on the middle of the lap is so strong a properly aimed headlight should throwm minimal light above the horizontal plain, even with overwatt bulbs.

My "no e-code headlamp" comment was aimed at D2's, I did not know there was such a thing, and if there is I'd sure like to know where to buy them.

The easiest way to see what your headlamps is doing is to find a wall and park a few feet away and aim your lights.

 

[LilRascle]

Only my neighbors kid one time, then I turned my spots on because I thought he was trying to light up something in the road. After he had his retinas rechecked....He has never done it again....!

 

[Ballah06]

Only when my hi beams and Hella 4000s are on. :rofl:

 

[Springsroverfamily]

disco 1 rr classic all of the time. So I flash back lol

 

[KyleT]

E-Code lights do not produce light upwards. DOT lights do, to light signs.

as European countries mandate overhead signs be lit on their own.
a good example is a BMW or any other projector headlamp. It flairs slightly upwards to the right to illuminate the shoulder, but dies not allow light to be cast upwards. E-code does not mean RHD or LHD. E-code reflector lights have a much harder cutoff point that DOT lights for the same overhead illumination reason. theoretically the glare on an e-code lamp is much much less.

I get flashed all the time in my disco with sls and the lights are aimed low... stock bulbs and stuff too......

 

[EricCo]

All the time in my D1. I do the same as Springsroverfamily....hit them with you high beams and off road lights....then get out of there quickly as they swerve into another vehicle! :drool:

 

[pjkbrit]

happens occasionally....DOT regulations suck....in the last 10-15 years or so lighting in this country has gone from pathetically weak bulbs encouraging folks to drive with brights on all the time to now where we have HID bulbs that dazzle the living crap out of oncoming traffic unless they are 110% correctly aligned...which of course all too few are. In my old country a mis-alignment is an MOT fail...here the State cares nothing about safety and craps on about emissions, a NON-safety issue. Your brakes can be 10%...and your heaplamps can glare and dazzle...but if your arse is clean...it's OK!!!
Oh..and I have E Code lamps on my old Saab 900T...lights up the overhead signs just fine even with the cut off and concetrates light where you need it.
Sorry...bit of a rant starting there!...been a long day.

 

[BaldEagle]

i adjusted my lamps and it never happened again

 

[ChrismonDA]

It seems like people do this to me all the time. I've tried to adjust my headlight beams downward, but it looks like they are as far down as possible already (Maybe I'm missing something here.) It also seems like taller vehicles do it alot more often than shorter vehicles such as cars.

Anyone else have this problem? I hate when someone passes me and has bright lights, I hate to be doing it myself.

They do on my ma's D2 and also my DI because I put those high dollar Sylvania headlights in.

 

[varova87]

disco 1 rr classic all of the time. So I flash back lol

x2 in my D1, so i flash back. not to get pissy, but to try and show them my brights werent on. i think im going to put some Hella driving lights up front and point them lower, and use only them in the city so I wont piss people off.

 

[BaldEagle]

....or adjust your head lights....its really easy