rogerwelch

Ah ha! I took my Skoda into my friendly garage (Aladdin - Jericho - Oxford) to enquire if my Xenon's can be converted. They do a lot of conversions for the local transient population. It's a 30 minute job once you know how (quite a bit longer the first time) - there is a small black lever on the Xenon bulb/lens which has two positions (one for LHS kick-up, and the other position flattens the beam). There was a bit of fiddling around with the a mask that obscured the beam (so had to take the bulb out of the lens assembly an poke around a bit - glad the chap in the garage did that with a £600 bulb and 42kV electrical system!). Hopefully now all OK for Dutch registration Thanks Aladdin Roger

Thanks Mike - very helpful Not sure how to contact an individual member - the site won't let me post a 'profile feed' Roger

Does anyone have experience of converting a UK Octavia for the continent and registering the vehicle? We are moving to Holland and currently have a UK Octavia Elegance TDi on a 58 plate with Xenon headlamps. I've reviewed various topics on this forum (many are useful but getting dated), I've also looked at the Dutch official sites which explain the process pretty well. I also spoke to my garage and was met with much sucking of teeth. I'd be interested in any lessons learnt. Thanks in advance Roger p.s. diesel may be cheaper on the continent - but they get it back through the road tax - the Skoda is approx 1300Euro a year to tax (ouch!)