How are xenon headlights adjusted to dip to the right for continental driving?

A little lever in the back of the headlight can be flicked accross to knock off the high part of the beam.

There is a link that Mater put on here, should give you a good idea.

Sorry about that this should work:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/new-octavia/changing-headlights-continental/81652/

There is a link that Mater put on here, should give you a good idea.

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/attac...n-tutorial.pdf

Thanks - but could you paste the full URL and not just the truncated version?

By removing the Main and Dipped Beam cap on the back of the headlamp you will be able to see a small metal lever that you can move up and down.

Moving the lever cuts off the angular section of your beam pattern allowing you not to glare other road users when abroad.

I'm thinking of using Eurolites next time I go abroad, which the makers claim to be the only stick on adaptors that you can use with xenons.

Has anyone tried them?

Haven't tried them but you would be wasting your money in buying some as the Xenons already have a function that as described above cuts off your beam pattern = Tourist Lever?!?!??!?!

There is a link that Mater put on here, should give you a good idea.

Sorry about that this should work:

http://www.briskoda.net/forums/new-octavia/changing-headlights-continental/81652/

Whether it's the same adjustment or not but that link is for the 'New Octavia'.

OK, just to update this a bit. I have just completed my first continental run in my Xenon-equipped Superb without adjusting the headlight dip; a run from Calais to Groningen and back, spread over a week, with much night-time driving. To my utter amazement, I was not flashed by on-coming traffic at all; not even once!

This is a much better result than I achieved with my previous H7/H3 equipped Rover 75. Even when I did alter the headlight dip (easy to do on a Rover 75, unlike the Superb) I would still be flashed occasionally by on-coming traffic. This is all the more surprising as, from where I was sitting, the Superb's lights are really powerful and far-reaching, even on dipped beam.

Conclusion; the difficulty of altering the headlight dip is simply not an issue. Just don't bother.

OK, just to update this a bit. I have just completed my first continental run in my Xenon-equipped Superb without adjusting the headlight dip; a run from Calais to Groningen and back, spread over a week, with much night-time driving. To my utter amazement, I was not flashed by on-coming traffic at all; not even once!

This is a much better result than I achieved with my previous H7/H3 equipped Rover 75. Even when I did alter the headlight dip (easy to do on a Rover 75, unlike the Superb) I would still be flashed occasionally by on-coming traffic. This is all the more surprising as, from where I was sitting, the Superb's lights are really powerful and far-reaching, even on dipped beam.

Conclusion; the difficulty of altering the headlight dip is simply not an issue. Just don't bother.

The Superb and Rover 75 headlamps are made by the same company......

Can I ask if you had Halogen or DE / Xenon on the R75? If you did have DE / Xenon then you would have the same tourist lever set up as the Superb so I am guessing you had Halogen reflector lamps?

The Superb and Rover 75 headlamps are made by the same company......

Can I ask if you had Halogen or DE / Xenon on the R75? If you did have DE / Xenon then you would have the same tourist lever set up as the Superb so I am guessing you had Halogen reflector lamps?

Erm.... Look, mate, I just drove the bloody thing. Don't get all techie with me!

Insofar as I can answer you, the full beam on my Rover 75 was H3 as per the Superb and the dipped beam was H7 (or is it the other way round?). From the outside this looked similar to the Superb; the dipped beam was in a tube with what looks like a bottle bottom for a lens, and the full beam is in an open reflector behind the clear outer plastic lens.

Erm.... Look, mate, I just drove the bloody thing. Don't get all techie with me!

Insofar as I can answer you, the full beam on my Rover 75 was H3 as per the Superb and the dipped beam was H7 (or is it the other way round?). From the outside this looked similar to the Superb; the dipped beam was in a tube with what looks like a bottle bottom for a lens, and the full beam is in an open reflector behind the clear outer plastic lens.

LMAO.....sorry mate.....just trying to establish some facts....

Sounds like you had Halogen on the Rover 75 but DE Halogen and the 'bottle bottom' you mention is a DE module similar to the Superb set up but your Superb has Xenon and from your description the Rover 75 didn't.......therefore both your Rover 75 and Superb have the tourist lever function so you could have used this on both.........

Did you fit stickers on your Rover 75 Headlamp when driving abroad or as with your Superb not bother?

I too have recently completed my first foreign trip in my Superb - a wonderful week in the Loire valley. Since the advice on this forum seemed to indicate that one needed the small size and manual dexterity of a rhesus monkey to access the Xenon headlamp dip levers, I bottled out and bought (at outrageous expense - I must buy some shares in the company......) the silver lined circular stickers instead. The accompanying instructions only gave one position for the Superb, which seemed to be counter intuitive in terms of being on the "wrong" side of the lights.

However I did quite a lot of night driving in France and did not get flashed once, so something must have worked!

I have to say that the Superb (2.5TDI) performed wonderfully as a continental cruiser, helped admittedly by the amazingly good, and somewhat empty French roads. It was considerably better than the Merc 220CDI it has replaced, in terms of comfort, performance and economy.

I too have recently completed my first foreign trip in my Superb - a wonderful week in the Loire valley. Since the advice on this forum seemed to indicate that one needed the small size and manual dexterity of a rhesus monkey to access the Xenon headlamp dip levers, I bottled out and bought (at outrageous expense - I must buy some shares in the company......) the silver lined circular stickers instead. The accompanying instructions only gave one position for the Superb, which seemed to be counter intuitive in terms of being on the "wrong" side of the lights.

However I did quite a lot of night driving in France and did not get flashed once, so something must have worked!

I have to say that the Superb (2.5TDI) performed wonderfully as a continental cruiser, helped admittedly by the amazingly good, and somewhat empty French roads. It was considerably better than the Merc 220CDI it has replaced, in terms of comfort, performance and economy.

I have been there a long time ago with my school and loved it.....

Glad to hear your happy with the Superb over a Mercedes, that's some statement!!

Glad to hear your happy with the Superb over a Mercedes, that's some statement!!

But undoubtedly true. Under my company scheme I could have had another E class, but there were a number of things about them with which I was less than happy, so I took the Skoda plunge. In my view (and supported by my initially sceptical family passengers) the Superb by comparison:

• is quieter
  
• has better stereo
  
• has better climate control system
  
• is more pleasant to drive (I'm no Clarkson...)
  
• has better performance (fuel consumption on the E220 is better on paper but has turned out to be worse in practice - I'm averaging 35mpg longterm in the Superb, only got 33 under same conditions with the E)
  
• has more toys (like satnav, which was hugely useful in France)
  
• was not much more than half the price, like for like

in fact the only real thing I am missing is automatically folding door mirrors when locking the car - I have to flick the switch separately on the Superb although I suspect that there is a vagcom setting there somewhere. Oh, and the speed limiter - more user friendly for not exceeding speed limits than cruise control.

When I went to France in September, I bought Eurolites on Ebay from Dennings DIY for

I bought my Passat B5 with Xenons back in June 2000, imported it so just used the Lucas things when driving it back to the Chunnel (serious driving rain!). As we were going on holiday into mainland Europe the following month, I asked the local dealer about what was needed for driving on the wrong side of the road, "good point" he said and phoned VW at M-K, he finally got back to me a few days later and confirmed my fears that VW UK had no idea as to how to handle this question - all he could offer was "sorry but VW will eventually look into this". How's that for a answer - I just used a Lucas mask again. I think that I only took that car abroad once more, now its good old fly-drive. Some years later I found out about the lever, but it looked like the lights would need to be removed to access this lever - might be okay in small engined models but not on the V6 petrol one. I didn't fancy driving 600+miles then stripping the car before hopping on the ferry - and the same on the way back!