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Our 2020 Discovery 5 has auto dip. In most situations, it is faster than I am to react. In an urban setting, it is not so effective (mainly because it puts the lights on to main beam when I would not) so I now disable it for the urban part of a journey. On the open road it works very well.
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The Honda CRV has autodip, which I usually override because I prefer to switch it much earlier. The camera system has to see something bright enough before it works, and sometimes it will dip when passing highly reflective road signs. With approaching vehicles, it normally has to clearly see both headlights, by which time the oncoming driver has probably been dazzled.
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Our 2020 Discovery 5 has auto dip. In most situations, it is faster than I am to react. In an urban setting, it is not so effective (mainly because it puts the lights on to main beam when I would not) so I now disable it for the urban part of a journey. On the open road it works very well. Both our Mercedes & VW California drop down to dipped beam at night as soon as you hit a 30mph speed limit whether you want them to or not.
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The Honda CRV has autodip, which I usually override because I prefer to switch it much earlier. The camera system has to see something bright enough before it works, and sometimes it will dip when passing highly reflective road signs. With approaching vehicles, it normally has to clearly see both headlights, by which time the oncoming driver has probably been dazzled.
Exactly. So in that familiar scenario where there a bend in the road, one dips one's lights before the approaching car actually appears, the auto cars don't and blind me as they come round the bend before ineffectually turning off as they draw level with me. Why oh why do the powers that be want to reduce the responsibilities and actions of the person in charge of the vehicle? The less a driver has to stay alert to, the less involvement, the more chance of poor responses when needed.
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There is from the manufacturer Philips of my LED in H4 socket a compatibility list. There are monthly new models and brands included in the list, see the bottom of the page. I have not found a Morgan yet...or maybe overlooked. https://www.philips.de/c-e/au/autolampen/scheinwerfer/led-compatibility-list.htmlAnother manufacturer, Osram, allows my 4/4 to run LED h4 in Germany. Just have a look. That was not the case when I bought the Philips lamp. https://www.osram.de/am/night-breaker-led/index.jsp#_m603__accordion_1I will now do the devil and buy Osram and throw away Philips.... Rather I wait for the extension of the Philips list. It is an opaque German jungle of overbearing bureaucracy and case-by-case decisions. There are approvals for all sorts of cars of different years....
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For those who don't like the design of most LED headlights, take a look at https://www.holley.com/brands/holley_retrobright/ . Looks very old-Lucas like. The Holley product is like a sealed beam equivalent but with replaceable cartridges. Flat-topped American low beam, no kick-up but UK MOT acceptable. Perhaps adjust the dip hotspot to be midway between the vertical 0% and left 2% lines on the beamsetter. Optional yellow light source, yellow or clear lens, 3,000K or modern white. 7 and 5.75 inch (so could even use them in fog lights).
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For those who don't like the design of most LED headlights, take a look at https://www.holley.com/brands/holley_retrobright/ . Looks very old-Lucas like. The Holley product is like a sealed beam equivalent but with replaceable cartridges. Flat-topped American low beam, no kick-up but UK MOT acceptable. Perhaps adjust the dip hotspot to be midway between the vertical 0% and left 2% lines on the beamsetter. Optional yellow light source, yellow or clear lens, 3,000K or modern white. 7 and 5.75 inch (so could even use them in fog lights). If they shipped to the UK I would be interested. The look is right.
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[quote If they shipped to the UK I would be interested. The look is right. [/quote] I generally use https://www.summitracing.com/ or https://www.jegs.com/ . Tax paid shipping terms to UK. Both have them in stock.
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[quote
If they shipped to the UK I would be interested. The look is right.
I generally use https://www.summitracing.com/ or https://www.jegs.com/ . Tax paid shipping terms to UK. Both have them in stock.[/quote] Thanks for those links!
DaveW
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Last time I got pulled by the scuffers for a light out, the copper was being a bit of an arsehole.
Before I handed my licence over, I gave his motor the once over....rear tyre past the wear markers on one side and a missing wheel nut on the other.
Wonder what he was doing instead of his start of day checks...
He was all for driving off in an unroadworthy vehicle too.
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