I rarely drive at night, but last week I was caught out and ended up driving home in the dark. The main beam was ok, but when I went to dipped, it was like someone had put a bag over my head, I couldn't see a bloomin thing! - not the road, kerbs or anything in front. I dove the 40 miles home on main beam (no other option) and it wasn't pleasant! Strange thing I noticed was that no -oncoming traffic was flashing me!
The next day I had my headlights upgraded from Tungsten's to Halogens, this seems to have made the problem worse, now the intensity level between dip and main is alot more marked.
A slightly foggy night has since revealed that my lights do not throw beams, just a general "wash" of light which has no depth or focus.
Googling the problem for solutions, shows that this seems to be a major problem across different ranges of makes (not just my skody!) and although a lot of folk fit extra lights to help main beam, you cant do this for dip as they have to either extinguish or dim when you dip.
Apparently they are classed as "Reflector" lights, and it seems there are 2 choices, upgrade the whole lighting unit to Hideously expensive HID units,or like me, be doomed to getting home before the need to use them!
This is probably why so many folk i see are now driving the 4-eyed monsters!!
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