I've done a topic search but the results are a bit inconclusive....

 

Driving to France on Monday.  I have those Eurolites reflector stick on thingies but don't want to risk leaving near permanent residue on my headlights.  

 

I'm led to believe that there is an option on the car's computer settings to electronically adjust the headlights for European driving?

 

Anyone got any experience of this?  Cheers.

 

I've got a Sportline with Xenons btw.

BiXenons: Use Lights menu - Driving on the right.

BiXenons + built-in SatNav (Columbus or Amundsen): Lights will auto-adjust for driving on the right (no need to use menu). Mine are already adjusted when I turn them on after exiting the shuttle. I usually leave the lights on Auto but if it's dark I switch the lights to O as I enter the train and back to Auto as I exit the train. Others have found it may need a stop & restart though I've only found this to be the case if I've left the lights on Auto or turned them back on before the SatNav has updated my location as being on the continent. It will, of course, automatically switch back the same way upon return.

 

In any event you most certainly don't use stick-ons with BiXenons.

Mine automatically adjust too when I arrive in France and the navigation has picked up where I am.  I've always used the ferry (usually to Dunkirk) rather than the train, but that won't make any difference.

 

It's over a year since I last went (we're due to go again in September this year) and I can't remember for certain, but doesn't it flash a warning somewhere that your lights are set to right-hand driving for the first three or four seconds after you start?

Well that all sounds very promising - cheers.  I'll see what happens when I get off the ferry Monday afternoon and let you know how I get on.

 

Good luck on your trip and hope all goes well.  I'm jealous as I'm itching to get away again next month on our trip to Lithuania.

Driving to France😳

 

Don't you know Brexit is coming🙁

 

It'll be like dropping off the edge of a cliff into a world from which you may never recover😈

 

Enjoy the drive on this lovely road the car will eat up the miles effortlessly👍

Edited 4 August, 20196 yr by Bud

On 04/08/2019 at 09:59, Bud said:

Enjoy the drive on this lovely road the car will eat up the miles effortlessly👍

 

Haha.  Forgot to get back to this.  It was a fantastic drive - makes such a pleasant change to be on quiet roads!  

 

In the end, re. the headlights, I had to wait until I actually arrived in France.  For some reason, the car wouldn't give me 'right hand traffic' as an option to select under settings/lights in the UK, but as soon as we got off the ferry I was able to toggle between the two.  So that's what I did - selected 'right hand traffic' (which means driving on the right, not the oncoming traffic is on the right!) and it worked a treat.  Very simple, but it wasn't automatic.

 

Cheers

I’m there at the moment, but had to buy Eurolites for my (poor relation) halogens 🤨

I don't have Xenons and I have the option for driving on the right (2017 SEL Exec).

 

I normally adjust them in the queue at Dover although last time the car only stopped at Dover at check-in, from there we rolled straight onto the ferry.

On 04/08/2019 at 10:59, Bud said:

Driving to France😳

 

Don't you know Brexit is coming🙁

 

It'll be like dropping off the edge of a cliff into a world from which you may never recover😈

 

Enjoy the drive on this lovely road the car will eat up the miles effortlessly👍

You have fortgotten that sometimes, we may transform your Skoda into a MY1970's Trabant! 😡

Be careful, we're nut on this side of the Channel!!!

 

😂😂😂

On 04/09/2019 at 07:28, IJWS15 said:

I don't have Xenons and I have the option for driving on the right (2017 SEL Exec).

 

I normally adjust them in the queue at Dover although last time the car only stopped at Dover at check-in, from there we rolled straight onto the ferry.

Correction - no height adjustment so I do have Xenons.

On 04/09/2019 at 02:06, Danny77 said:

 

Haha.  Forgot to get back to this.  It was a fantastic drive - makes such a pleasant change to be on quiet roads!  

 

In the end, re. the headlights, I had to wait until I actually arrived in France.  For some reason, the car wouldn't give me 'right hand traffic' as an option to select under settings/lights in the UK, but as soon as we got off the ferry I was able to toggle between the two.  So that's what I did - selected 'right hand traffic' (which means driving on the right, not the oncoming traffic is on the right!) and it worked a treat.  Very simple, but it wasn't automatic.

 

Cheers

 

Same for me on my SE-L this weekend. Not automatic but the manual options works. Beats opening the bonnet and flipping a switch like in my MY11 V70 😉

I have a 2014 Superb L&K with Columbus. Just done a bit of checking ahead of a trip to France and there's a 'Travel Mode' option under Settings/Lights & Vision which does the job for mine - so manual intervention but very straightforward