Beam Converters - How-To-Fit On Aygo

[JamesP89]

Hi,

Hope someone can help with a bit of advice. I'm travelling to France for this first time in my aygo and have purchased some beam converters so I don't glare other drivers whilst over there.

What's the best way to position these on aygo headlights? The instructions provided show you how to position dependant on the pattern of glass, but the aygo has clear glass, so it's not very clear.

I'm sure others have used in the past, any advise welcome

Cheers

[rajivrattna]

The light pattern on the road should be the same irrelevant of the type of glass that you have, as long as you have a car that is meant to be driven on the left side of the road (the English mode).

[Raistlin]

If do the following for setting the headlamps

1. Park the car with the headlights 5 meters (16.5 feet) from the wall and square on. MEASURE!

2. Measure the height of the center of the headlight from the ground.

3. On the wall, mark that height with a horizontal strip of masking tape. Get behind the car and sight very carefully the center of the vehicle and mark that point on the wall with a small vertical strip of masking tape.

4. Measure the horizontal distance between centers of headlights. Mark those same points centered on the wall with additional vertical strips of tape. Measure down 2" and place a second horizontal strip of tape.

5. Adjust the low beams to the intersection of the vertical and lower horizontal tape. If the low beams are to European standards where there is a built-in "V" point or "eyebrow" to raise the right side of low beam, place the center of the V slightly to the right of center, say 1-2". This is due to their raising the right side of low beam above center to read road signs, but would blind oncoming drivers if centered or to left of center.

6. If equipped with separate bulbed high beams, adjust them to the upper light centers.

OK so once the car is pointing at the wall you'll see the portion of the beam when bends / angles down and its this you need to mask off

[Unklian]

Simple answer......

Beam converters do not work on most modern car headlamps.

On older cars, with patterned glass lenses, the reflector at the rear of the bulb

just pointed all the light forwards. The glass did the beam arrangement.

On modern cars like the Aygo, the plain front of the light unit

does nothing......it is just clear plastic.

The much more accurately produced bulbs mean that each facet of the reflector

points the light in the correct direction. Putting anything on the front has little or no effect.

Park your car three feet from a wall and place your hand anywhere in front of the light,

wave it up / down /side to side, it will have no effect apart from a slight dimming.

I just stick a black triangle of vinyl about 5cm x 12cm x 15cm on the front of the lens for appearance.
(There is a tiny cross on the front of the light units showing the bulb centre. Work to the left & up from that).

I've never been stopped in my last 20 or so trips on the continent.

Ian.

[Tony Dutton]

Can 2019 Aygo headlights be adjusted to change from driving on the left side of the road (UK) to right side of the road (Netherlands)?