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Car headlights
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My headlights are really dim. Does this mean the bulbs need changing or something else? Any idea how much it is likely to cost?
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I didn't know you could change the angle
:yes: thats why you don't drive at night with your headlights on full beam
what kind of car do you have?
I have a corsa and there is a swirly knoby thing (great explanation I am sure you will agree) that allows you to fiddle with the angle of the lights.
Sorry I'm confused now. Putting lights on full beam changes the angle? I thought it was just a brighter light? Ok I should have been more clear. My full beams work fine, my foglights work fine but my dipped headlights are so dim they don't give me enough light to drive
:yes:
1995 fiesta. Where is the thing to change the angle? I wouldn't think it was the angle because that would still give off light, mine are pretty much useless
Thats what I thought, but then why are they so dim?
I have had a google but I cant find anything that says how to alter your lights, so may just have to have a fiddle and a nosey.
lol yes but its not so fun when i'm driving on the dual carriageway where there's no lights and I can't see fuck all. I can't pick my boyfriend up at night because its too dark and my headlights are too shit
perfect excuse then
I have a manual so I'll have a look, but I'm bloody useless with cars and I wouldn't want to change it incase I acidentally turned on full beam permanently or something
I will sound so sexist now....but ask your bf to do it if you are worried. But I dont think you can turn it on permanently, you will have one button for full beam, and if you turned it on, you will know how to turn it off.
Haha yeah right am I letting him touch my car he has less of a clue than me! I guess I'll see if his dad can have a look for me, but he already thinks I'm a moron because I was driving with my fog lights on for ages because my dipped headlights were so shit I thought they were my parking lights!
I'm sure that main beam is a different bulb/filament, and doesn't mean that the angle of the lamp changes between dipped/full beam. I thought the angle was to compensate for difference in loads (i.e. a boot full of beer etc.).
Pretty much everything, apart from the passenger side electric window doesn't work because they had to rip out the electrics to disconnect the immobiliser when it went mental, and the drivers side electric window is a bit unresponsive - you have to hold it for a while before the window goes up because the electrics are a bit dodgy, oh and as of last week you can't put the full beams on unless the radio is on but once you've done that they work fine. Haven't noticed anything else
Maybe it's time for a rewire?
Yeah but I'm skint and I have no idea how much that will cost! It all works at the moment, just on the cars terms not mine
Oh yeah, it wouldn't be cheap. It's probably (definitely) a good idea it being roadworthy, though.
Probably cheaper to scrap it and get a new one that a rewire/new bulb
It is roadworthy! I wouldn't drive it if it wasn't
I have a feeling bunnie and otter are wrong, and your boyfriend is right.
URGHHHHHH. If I had money do you think I'd be driving a 95 fiesta with half its electrics ripped out!
Indeed. The main beam headlights are usually a different bulb, differently positioned.
Your normal headlights could just be shit. Mine aren't that much cop to be honest. But if I were driving through the countryside at night where there are no street lights I'd be using full beam anyway unless someone was coming the other way.