13 minutes ago, super717 said:

Hi Graham , thanks for your reply.

The supplying Skoda dealer MOT the car and the to date has passed with no issues.

Are you saying that although the lights may be correctly set up they can be gone tuned.

Do have the driving mode in Eco? If yes then that is the first mistake as it stops full function of the lights. Second mistake could be not leaving the light switch in the AUTO position and manually switching them on.

50 minutes ago, super717 said:

Hi Graham , thanks for your reply.

The supplying Skoda dealer MOT the car and the to date has passed with no issues.

Are you saying that although the lights may be correctly set up they can be gone tuned.

Yes.

I drive a*lot* in the dark - when the clocks change it's generally dark most of both ways to work, so that's 6-8 hours of night driving each week when I'm in the country. And it's not the night driving that most of the UK gets, either, with streetlights and traffic. This is the primordial stuff, the real darkness and traffic levels at 10-minutes-with-high-beam-at50mph-between-cars.
The Superb's high beam was OK. Not strong enough, but OK, with a decent spread.
The Kodiaq? No. It's 2 spots. Why? Superb was Xenon, Kodiaq is LED.

For the Superb lights, I had mine - and I didn't explicitly set them like this, they came like this and were excellent in low beam - set so that the kick of the beam was visible on a kerb starting at 35m out. You could see the pattern of the lights change at that point, the kick starts and you can see it when you have a flat surface (doesn't have to be perfect, a car park is fine, as long as it's a consistent surface). You can adjust with either an allen key or a philips IIRC. I don't have the car any more, so I can't tell you specifically. I would not adjust significantly, just tweak and see if it improves things.
All the cars have MoT here, but the one car's lights are way higher than the others and they're still "fine"...

I also spent quite some time with all the extra lights aligning them. Just because it looks good on the garage door does not a good beam pattern make. One is higher than the dipped beams (!) another is equal-ish, the Kodiaq seems higher but isn't and the Superb light was below the headlights so looked a little off but was rather good. Superb had a Lazer Elite 12 with parking light, the Kodiaq has an Elite 24 (!!), the other two currently have Philips ref 30+30 20" bars. They're fine, I prefer the Lazer color temps. The 24 especially also puts out way more light even though it's theoretically very similar.

the reason, by the way, you can see the owls is because you want to see the wildlife coming from the side. That seems to imply the lights may be too high rather than too low, but as said, tweak, check, tweak again. Don't overdo it, dazzling people is silly. And if there's nothing for it to reflect off of, it can look like it's off... I got this on the ice road last winter, where the difference between high beam on or off was negligible, as there was nothing to reflect the light off except the ice & snow of the road!

and yes, my irritation with the auto is that the auto high beams do not come on early enough - they wait a very long time for it to be dark outside, irrespective of the menu settings. i'll triple check that when it actually starts getting dark again in a month or so.

15 minutes ago, brettikivi said:

and yes, my irritation with the auto is that the auto high beams do not come on early enough - they wait a very long time for it to be dark outside, irrespective of the menu settings. i'll triple check that when it actually starts getting dark again in a month or so.

Mine come on early enough.

OK, I now have my Kodiaq and I have driven about 120 miles in the dark and I have to say the lights seem to be good. But I'm not seeing the swivelling like the Xeons did, but I have yet to get to grips with everything. I did see the option for them to switch on in auto mode, with, early, normal or late settings, went with early. What I also noticed on switching ignition on was a message in the instruments showing horizontal bars like get with the ACC for distance setting. When these appear the message says you have 10 secs to adjust the headlights for dipped beam distance. I have yet to play with that but is done with the scroll wheel.

Cruise set at 65mph, car in normal mode and averaged 51.8 mpg, impressive for the size of it, has a large frontal area for sure.

Edited 17 July, 202517 Jul by Graham Butcher

1 hour ago, Graham Butcher said:

Cruise set at 65mph, car in normal mode and averaged 51.8 mog, impressive for the size of it, has a large frontal area for sure.

I'm also impressed by my Kodiaq's mpg compared to my ex- Superb Mk3.

Superb Mk3 Estate TDI190 4x4 DSG6 : 7.15l/100km over 136000 km of ownership.

Kodiaq Mk1 TDI200 4x4 DSG7 : 7.25l/100km over 7000 km of ownership... I expect it may increase a bit when temperatures will cool down in fall and winter.

I hope we can see your new "bear" in the picture thread soon. 😉

Edited 17 July, 202517 Jul by Bap33

10 hours ago, Bap33 said:

I'm also impressed by my Kodiaq's mpg compared to my ex- Superb Mk3.

Superb Mk3 Estate TDI190 4x4 DSG6 : 7.15l/100km over 136000 km of ownership.

Kodiaq Mk1 TDI200 4x4 DSG7 : 7.25l/100km over 7000 km of ownership... I expect it may increase a bit when temperatures will cool down in fall and winter.

I hope we can see your new "bear" in the picture thread soon. 😉

Yes, I'll pop some photos of the bear up here soon, just needs to be cleaned a bit before then as the sellers plot was a dusty location so the car has dusting over it from the all the cars entering the business park he is located on plus all the grim it accumulated on the journey from High Wycombe, back RAF Fairford to pick up my son and then the drive back to Chelmsford. I have some errands and hospital appointments to do today, so hopefully the photos will be done sooner then later.