Headlight help needed on 2013 Jaguar XF
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Headlight help needed on 2013 Jaguar XF
My headlights provide minimal vision at night on low beam and we noticed only the high/low beam bulb is lit when the lights are on low beam. The other large bulb in the the headlight assembly never illuminates on either headlight. I can't find anywhere if that's an additional low beam bulb or how to get it to turn on. It's strange it's not lit on either side. Thanks for the help, I'm a long ways from a Jaguar dealership.
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Post facelift cars only have one headlight bulb as they are bi xenon.
The other bulb is the turn indicator which you can verify by activating it.
In my experience Jaguar sets the low beam too low from the factory. The vertical adjuster is accessible from the open hood and is a green 5 mm Allen socket plastic screw adjuster marked with a directional arrow. Park up at a nice clean wall on level ground. (I used my underground parkade). Turn the screw adjuster up until the cut off is at a reasonable height. If you find oncoming drivers are bothered by the light you've set them too high, lower them.
If you have the dealer aim your headlights I suspect they'll be set too low again.
The second adjuster is for left right aim and need not be touched normally. The left right adjusters are on the side of each lamp unit, less obvious to find.
The other bulb is the turn indicator which you can verify by activating it.
In my experience Jaguar sets the low beam too low from the factory. The vertical adjuster is accessible from the open hood and is a green 5 mm Allen socket plastic screw adjuster marked with a directional arrow. Park up at a nice clean wall on level ground. (I used my underground parkade). Turn the screw adjuster up until the cut off is at a reasonable height. If you find oncoming drivers are bothered by the light you've set them too high, lower them.
If you have the dealer aim your headlights I suspect they'll be set too low again.
The second adjuster is for left right aim and need not be touched normally. The left right adjusters are on the side of each lamp unit, less obvious to find.
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Well thats odd, so youre saying that you can manually adjust youre lights potentially blinding oncoming traffic and you have NO test in place to pick this up????
Thats poor, we have a check in the UK as part of the yearly MOT test.
This is to try and catch absolute morrons tampering with the light settings and making them to high, this would potentially cause a serious accident if blinding oncoming traffic.
Thats poor, we have a check in the UK as part of the yearly MOT test.
This is to try and catch absolute morrons tampering with the light settings and making them to high, this would potentially cause a serious accident if blinding oncoming traffic.
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Yes, that is correct. Our states, all 50 of them, each have their own licensing laws. None of them require any headlight checks. No doubt we have less stupid people here so tampering isn't as much of an issue.
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Well thats odd, so youre saying that you can manually adjust youre lights potentially blinding oncoming traffic and you have NO test in place to pick this up????
Thats poor, we have a check in the UK as part of the yearly MOT test.
This is to try and catch absolute morrons tampering with the light settings and making them to high, this would potentially cause a serious accident if blinding oncoming traffic.
Thats poor, we have a check in the UK as part of the yearly MOT test.
This is to try and catch absolute morrons tampering with the light settings and making them to high, this would potentially cause a serious accident if blinding oncoming traffic.
We have regulations requiring this equipment to be in good repair but no regulatory enforcement system. Police tickets are the only enforcement.
It's called freedom from regulation. Bizarre but there you have it.
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