I currently have a Yeti Elegance which has tourist mode for driving abroad.

Currently looking at a change to a new Octavia, and will certainly pick up an Elegance, but am not sure whether to spec Xenons.

Does headlight assist manage the lights enough to be effective abroad and not dazzle cars approaching on the left hand side or do I need to add Xenons to drive in Europe without adding stickers to lights etc?

Grateful for any help, thanks.

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Headlight assist just controls whether or not the main beams are on.  It doesn't change the direction (left/right) of the beam.  Even the adaptive lighting that comes with the Xenons doesn't change the beam based on which side of the road you're on.  These systems aren't substitutes for the tourist mode you get with the Xenons.  Without that, you're stuck sticking stickers on...

I have to say, that with the xenons, changing over for Euro trips is dead easy and works a treat. Very expensive though, so I can see why the question was asked.

As a slight aside, I was really impressed when driving over to the UK at Easter that when I came out of the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, the message on the dash said the xenons had been adjusted for left side driving automatically. I knew there was the option in the menu to select, which I was expecting to do, but seems it used the GPS data to know what side I should be driving on and adjust the lights accordingly. Nothing I could see anywhere in the user manual would suggest it would do this automatically though. Beginning to think it is getting almost human.......

^ Thats pretty (simply) clever! i wouldn't of expected that at all.

As a slight aside, I was really impressed when driving over to the UK at Easter that when I came out of the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, the message on the dash said the xenons had been adjusted for left side driving automatically. I knew there was the option in the menu to select, which I was expecting to do, but seems it used the GPS data to know what side I should be driving on and adjust the lights accordingly. Nothing I could see anywhere in the user manual would suggest it would do this automatically though. Beginning to think it is getting almost human.......

Another good reason it would seem for specing nav on a car equipped with xenons, that is pretty darn clever!

As a slight aside, I was really impressed when driving over to the UK at Easter that when I came out of the Eurotunnel at Folkestone, the message on the dash said the xenons had been adjusted for left side driving automatically. I knew there was the option in the menu to select, which I was expecting to do, but seems it used the GPS data to know what side I should be driving on and adjust the lights accordingly. Nothing I could see anywhere in the user manual would suggest it would do this automatically though. Beginning to think it is getting almost human.......

Nice one Skoda. Can I be sure you do have a nav system (Columbus/Amundsen) though markytop, just so I don't get excited it's going to happen when I take my Bolero vRS abroad?? I'm cherishing a faint hope that there might be a GPS receiver in mine even though no nav.

Nice one Skoda. Can I be sure you do have a nav system (Columbus/Amundsen) though markytop, just so I don't get excited it's going to happen when I take my Bolero vRS abroad?? I'm cherishing a faint hope that there might be a GPS receiver in mine even though no nav.

No GPS antenna on cars without nav Im afraid, you get the little sharkfin on the roof if you have nav and/or bluetooth + as it houses the GPS and/or GSM antennas

Thanks pipsyp. Thought not. Just a momentary lapse into hopefulness! No shark fin, so will have to slum it and change xenons into Tourist Mode on the ferry myself. How will I cope? It's still better than black tape on the Mazda. It must also mean Les Gendarmes won't know merely from looking at cars coming off the ferry who's converted to drive on the right at night and who isn't, so perhaps a few owners are going to have to talk their way out of having no tape/converters.

Nice one Skoda. Can I be sure you do have a nav system (Columbus/Amundsen) though markytop, just so I don't get excited it's going to happen when I take my Bolero vRS abroad?? I'm cherishing a faint hope that there might be a GPS receiver in mine even though no nav.

Yes, I have the Columbus system in my vRS. Sorry to help shatter your hopeful moment