Headlight adjustment for european roads

[Maddog1974]

Found it interesting yesterday was reading my manual and found i put a fuse in under the bonnet to adjust mine for abroad as they are the xenon's didnt know that!

[Damian]

Just to resurrect this post a second.

I have looked in my manual for adjusting the headlights for driving abroad and all it says is to have the headlights adjusted at Vauxhall.

Last time I checked there wasn't a VX workshop on the ferry to France. There is no picture of the lever in my book.

I have an 05 SRi Vectra, can it be done in this way

Cheers

[Chocki]

There is no lever on the facelift model lights, and the fuse method only applies if you have the clever adaptive front lights (The ones that turn as you steer left and right), these are not standard on the SRi.

As far as I am aware, the SRi like mine only has the Halogen projector type (Unless AFL ordered as an upgrade when purchasing the car from new).

These have no lever etc to adjust the lights for european driving.

What I did was use a pair of beam benders to direct some of the light to the right and had no problems whilst abroad (Over 3 months in total).

What I would suggest though, is that you buy a set of headlight protectors (Approx £30 from VX) and stick anything onto these as the glue damages the headlight when left on for some time.

There are two types of beam benders, I will give details and a drawing later when I have more time.

[Damian]

There is no lever on the facelift model lights, and the fuse method only applies if you have the clever adaptive front lights (The ones that turn as you steer left and right), these are not standard on the SRi.

I have a pre-facelift though

There are two types of beam benders, I will give details and a drawing later when I have more time.

Nice one

Cheers

[Andy]

im off to norway in the morning so am just going to stick some of the light blocker things on rather than fannie arround skinning my knuckles trying to work out where my levers are.

[Damian]

im off to norway in the morning so am just going to stick some of the light blocker things on rather than fannie arround skinning my knuckles trying to work out where my levers are.

Can I just pick these up in Halfords or something then, and are they fairly self explanatory where to stick them on the headlight

Cheers

[Chocki]

OK, if you use the Metro Super Beam Benders then fit as shown. Make sure you use the correct segment (RHD for UK).

The blue 'Rabbit ears' is the light output as seen at the cover.

They are not perfect, but then again with these projector lamps nothing ever will be, you see, the light beam does some strange crossover stuff somewhere in front of the lens and there is just no way to be able to effectively mask it off without masking much of the rest of the light output!.

If you want to see what I mean, drive to within about 5m of a light wall at night, get a piece of card and try to mask off the sloping part of the light!, it can't be done.

I have fitted these super beam benders and had no problems when driving abroad.

By the way, steer well clear of the Eurolites masks as the glue they use attacks the polycarbonate of your lights, after the damage they caused to my last Vectra, I took no chances withe the Metro Beam Benders and fitted headlight protectors, as it turns out the Metro product caused no damage to these.



This also can be used on the pre-facelift models, just apply in front of the lens as in the above pictures.

If anyone else has any suggestions / experience, then please add to this thread.

[sgilkes]

Hi Chocki

I'm driving to east Hungary in March and have purchased the identical items as yourself, any updates since your last post.

Regards
Simon

[sgilkes]

Tried fitting the headlight protectors but they don't fit between the headlight and the front bumber/spoiler. Did you have this problem?

Purchased pucker Vauxhall parts and only succeeded in damaging my paint work

Simon

[RichieClyde]

Is there a more simple way of adjusting the lamps rather than buying Beam Re-Direction Thingys?

I have the Facelift Model and after a brief look at it there is 2 Allen Head Adjusters above each light unit. Is it as simple as turning those? I've driving to the continent at the end of this month. and my idea was simply to adjust them whilst on the ferry.