Anyone who cannot see properly with 2 Xenon beams should not be driving!!

According to the parts catalogue the halogen bulbs on the Superb are 12v55w H3 as well as D1S 12v 35w Xenon units.

What's your point here? Your statement that 2 xenon beams are enough, might hold in the UK where there aren't many dark roads. Most of them are illuminated, right? You don't need the additional beam produced by 2 halogen reflectors. The xenon projectors alone aren't good enough for casting light far in front of the car, which is a necessity on the dark, snowy roads that we have here up north.

My previous car, an Opel Astra with bi-xenon, had pretty bad low beam. But the full beam, on the other hand, was great. Projector shutters wide open gave an impression of driving through an illuminated tunnel. With the additional halogen reflectors, it also illuminated the road far in front of the car.

Demands differs from region to region, deal with it.

Errr. No.

The Yeti has bixenons OR halogens. Not a mixture.

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Ok, so I was wrong about the Yeti. The Superb, then. And BMW's, Merc's, Opel, Volvo, etc

Edited 11 December, 201213 yr by Capo79

What's your point here? Your statement that 2 xenon beams are enough, might hold in the UK where there aren't many dark roads. Most of them are illuminated, right? You don't need the additional beam produced by 2 halogen reflectors. The xenon projectors alone aren't good enough for casting light far in front of the car, which is a necessity on the dark, snowy roads that we have here up north.

My previous car, an Opel Astra with bi-xenon, had pretty bad low beam. But the full beam, on the other hand, was great. Projector shutters wide open gave an impression of driving through an illuminated tunnel. With the additional halogen reflectors, it also illuminated the road far in front of the car.

Demands differs from region to region, deal with it.

Perhaps Skoda will produce different headlights for different markets if they consider it important enough.

Alternatively an opening for a Norwegian company to offer a suitable headlight change, if they think there is sufficient market. No reason for the rest of the European market to pay for more complicated headlights than necessary.

Edited 11 December, 201213 yr by h5djr

I can confirm that, according to the latest release of the ETKA part catalogue, the new Octavia will have headlights with either 2 halogen bulbs or 1 xenon bulb for the main driving headlights.

I can confirm that, according to the latest release of the ETKA part catalogue, the new Octavia will have headlights with either 2 halogen bulbs or 1 xenon bulb for the main driving headlights.

No update from the present one then.

Ok, so I was wrong about the Yeti. The Superb, then. And BMW's, Merc's, Opel, Volvo, etc

Correct, the Superb has projector bi-xenon headlights (dipped & main beam) but it also has a traditional incandescent reflector main beam too which is used for the flash function and also supports the projector set-up for main beam.

The problem with the Yeti's 'bi-xenon projector only' set-up is that they don't perform very well for the flash function as the xenon bulbs take a few seconds to reach their optimum level of brightness and this can shorten their life too.

Perhaps Skoda will produce different headlights for different markets if they consider it important enough.

They do this already today on the MkII Octavia. Some markets have reflector lenses for both dipped and main beam functions.

In the UK we have projector headlights for dipped beam.

Perhaps Skoda will produce different headlights for different markets if they consider it important enough.

Alternatively an opening for a Norwegian company to offer a suitable headlight change, if they think there is sufficient market.

You have been able to buy aftermarket driving lights for about as long as cars have had electric lighting, that's nothing new. As for replacement headlights, no that's not gonna happen, unless you count shoddy chinese "styling" headlights.

Here's a setup that most people would consider overkill, but setups like this become more and more common the further up north you go in Scandinavia. Makes any standard high beam on any car ever made look like a wax candle in comparison.

And the high beam on bi-xenon is usually terrible unless there's a halogen reflector as well.

Here's a photo I took from a Finnish car magazine that's pretty thurough when it comes to testing the lights. It's the bi-xenons on some new german compact, I think it was the A3 or the new A class. Doesn't make a difference, they're all the same. It's as if the high beam isn't important anymore, and I can sort of understand why after I started frequenting briskoda. Most of the rest of Europe just don't need a proper high beam the same way we do, with your fancy fully lit road networks and all that traffic that makes a proper highbeam unusable anyway. :p

Edited 14 January, 201313 yr by Perc

Did someone try the Osram Nightbraker Unlimited for low beam on O3? It is H7. Please leave a feedback about the difference compared to the standard ones (in night/rain).

Edited 8 May, 201412 yr by myself24483

Did someone try the Osram Nightbraker Unlimited for low beam on O3? It is H7. Please leave a feedback about the difference compared to the standard ones (in night/rain).

 

Will try to fit them this weekend - got the bulbs last week and the car yesterday :-) First impressions are that the stock bulbs are pretty decent. I will change one bulb for starters and see if I can spot the difference.

OK Nightbreakers fitted with little drama. I can clearly see a difference between the standard in terms of colour temperature. They are whiter than the fog lights and much whiter than the side lights (or are the DRLs?) that run with the low beams. I did not try driving with one standard/one Nightbreaker. However, subjectively they feel nice and bright and I think for $40 they are a worthy upgrade, and the original set can be decent spares. 

Any Nightbreaker H15's available? The OEM bulbs are very in comparison.

No nightbreakers or nightbreaker unlimiteds in H15 or H8 for the fogs either.

Aware the last post here was a year and a half ago so apologies to the folks who are offended by responses to old threads. Hope most folk wont mind.

The dipped beam on my Mk2 FL is a halogen bulb with projector lens, but the basic option above shows both dipped and main beam with reflector lenses. In my (perhaps deluded) mind, a projector lens seems more elegantly designed or engineered, hence must be better! However, when looking at other cars, including much higher priced Audis etc., I was suprised at how many have dipped-beam reflector lenses (plus cap over the end of the bulb). Wonder if there's a particular reason to change the lenses here, or just production simplification.

Just noticing this myself now as I am looking to change from a pre FL Octavia 2 to an Octavia 3 (2015 car but I think 2016 MY)

My car has the basic halogen lights and clearly has projector lenses but the Mk 3 I am looking at appears to have ordinary reflector headlamps.

I too am concerned that this is a backward (cheapskate) step, but wonder if anyone who has made the same change thinks now they have used them through some winters.

 

Thanks