So I took delivery of my new Seat Leon FR last week and im off to the F1 at Spa next week.

Spoke to the dealership about changing the beam pattern of my LED headlights for driving in europe. They said they are "legal" for driving short periods without changing any settings.

Im not conviced at all as the beam pattern is biased to the left as usual.

Anyone got an idea if this correct?

Cheers in advance

I like the Leon and I've test driven one. I was really impressed with it. I hope you enjoy it.

 

From what I understand on other cars they have a "Tourist Mode" in some setting somewhere. This will probably turn off certain LEDs which point in a specific direction. Only a guess with the Leon.

 

I don't know if legal for short periods. Sounds too grey on the legalities for France and Belgium. I'm sure the law is black and white on these kind of things. I think you're being fobbed off personally.

I like the Leon and I've test driven one. I was really impressed with it. I hope you enjoy it.

From what I understand on other cars they have a "Tourist Mode" in some setting somewhere. This will probably turn off certain LEDs which point in a specific direction. Only a guess with the Leon.

I don't know if legal for short periods. Sounds too grey on the legalities for France and Belgium. I'm sure the law is black and white on these kind of things. I think you're being fobbed off personally.

Reading the vehicle manual it is pretty much stating the same still not keen though, would be a pain in the arse to explain that to the french/belgium police.

And i am loving it so far cheers! Nice to be back on a VAG platform after the vauxpoor insignia!

I did a bit of Googling and found this:
http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=403988

 

Basically saying that the car is already in "Tourist Mode" and therefore doesn't need doing. So as you said for short trips then it's fine. They're not supposed to dazzle on low beam.

 

The dealer may be referring to driving across Europe is fine like as a tourist, but if you needed to register the car (Like moving abroad) then you would probably need to replace them with the LHD headlights.

 

As mentioned in one of the posts bring the handbook with you just in case you get pulled over for it. I see foreign registered cars in the UK without the deflector stickers on their headlights anyway.