Bit of help please. 05 2litre elegance with factory 17 inch alloys and sports suspension and xenons.

 

About 18 months ago it got two new front springs fitted, during which the plastic adjustment arm on the front sensor got broke in two.

 

A secondhand sensor complete with the two rods was sourced and fitted. The part numbers were identical, the rods appeared to be an update on the originals, which were basically rusty bits of twisted tin. All was working fine, up til 2 weeks ago.

 

The sensor failed, no adjustment on start up, dipped lights reaching ten feet from the front of the car. Tested it by separating the sensor from the assembly, adjusting the plastic arm by hand, no up down with the level. Then put the old one on with the broken adjustment arm, shifted up and down no problem.

 

Bought a new sensor, 61 quid, fitted it tonight, and it is doing the up down adjust, working as it should, but the dipped level now seems a bit low and made the drive home pretty rubbish, seems low compared to my other xenon equipped skoda.

 

I was hoping it would be a case of plug in the sensor and that's it.

 

Have I fitted the wrong bits, have I fitted them wrong, or is there a VCDS reset or adjustment that could help? Thanks.

There is an adjustment procedure and I would guess, but it is a guess, that a part of the reason for that procedure is to calibrate for the sensor variation (as well as the variation from car to car in suspension height etc)

I had a couple of issues with mine, until I did a test using VCDS (pushes the lights all the up then down) since then, no problems :)

sounds like you need to carry out the above mentioned procedure.

 

I had to do it when my springs were changed and the lights were not re-calibrated

righto, VCDS it is, many thanks

Apologies for resurrecting old thread, my mechanic tried to change headlight adjustment by vcds, but says he had to enter a code and couldn't get any further with it, so I left it there as had other things to deal with. Now the car is going in for new rear springs, would like to have another go at it, can anyone give some advice or a step by step guide how to either carry out the test as mentioned above, or some other way of adjusting the headlights?? many thanks.