Hi All,

 

Can anyone help me - I have noticed recently that the LED headlights seem to have dropped and at night and not lighting up the road as far as they used to, in fact when I put it on high beam it is closer to what they used to be like.

 

I think it is the self leveling sensor but not sure - does any have any experience with this issue??

 

It is a 2018 VRS estate if that makes any difference.

Could be a level sensor or something else. Ideally you should get it scanned for fault codes with VCDS or similar to give some pointers 👍

10 minutes ago, langers2k said:

Could be a level sensor or something else. Ideally you should get it scanned for fault codes with VCDS or similar to give some pointers 👍

Thank you for this - I will ask my local garage to look into it for me

 

I would have thought it would have a fault message but maybe not for this as they are still working

Might be worth having a look at the level sensors, the little bars which connect the sensor to the suspension have been known to fail on other models.

 

The could potentially cause the headlight aim to drop with no warnings show to the driver.

1 minute ago, langers2k said:

Might be worth having a look at the level sensors, the little bars which connect the sensor to the suspension have been known to fail on other models.

 

The could potentially cause the headlight aim to drop with no warnings show to the driver.

Thank you - I will see if there are any YouTube videos showing this

Here's an image of what they look like, you should be able to check yourself.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/324537050549

 

Link is to show you, not to purchase!

if you park in front of a wall at night and turn the lights on, do you see them do their leveling self test? Should see them move up and down

 

could be the sensor, as others have said, or could be the motor.

 

The motor went on my sisters GTI and we did the wall test as mentioned above and you could see the light beam vibrate where it was trying to run the leveling test.