I'm with you. It's very rare that I get a car approaching which I feel is too bright, unless as you say, they aren't using dipped, or have a dodgy aftermarket 9000k HID kit.
I do tend to get flashed more often in the S3 than I did in my A4 though.
Dipped beams = too bright , auto wipers = arghh, rear saloon wipers = ?!?!
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I'm with you. It's very rare that I get a car approaching which I feel is too bright, unless as you say, they aren't using dipped, or have a dodgy aftermarket 9000k HID kit.
I do tend to get flashed more often in the S3 than I did in my A4 though.
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+1 to finding it a major problem. Driving this morning at 7 down an unlit road, saw the oncoming car switch full beams off before the corner, as did I, yet as they came towards me I could literally see nothing of the road ahead as their lights were still so bright/not dipped enough. Was an SUV/crossover of some sort.
Last night when I was passenger my gf was driving for about 30 miles with the car behind's lights illuminating the whole cabin and blinding her from the rear view/side mirrors.
Notice it every day in winter.
Last night when I was passenger my gf was driving for about 30 miles with the car behind's lights illuminating the whole cabin and blinding her from the rear view/side mirrors.
Notice it every day in winter.
I never understand the logic of flashing people coming the other way. Sure, it's a bright light but there's not that much the owner can do about it, really...
(Unless they've fashioned some silly aftermarket crap to be shockingly installed).
(Unless they've fashioned some silly aftermarket crap to be shockingly installed).
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Also +1 to Range Rovers being the worst! Was followed back across Dartmoor with one behind and my mirrors were completely useless. You could see the side of the road/hedge being lit up by it from behind too.
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They probably think it's full beam. Not many people know the difference between a headlight on dipped/full, all they see is a very bright light.
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My MINI Countryman seems to be an offender. I get regular flashes but then main beam them back to show im actually on dipped.
Other thing is the cut off is so sharp you don't really get much light spill up the road to cats eyes. So its either super bright light daylight or pitch black. Similar issue on an XE i drove although an F PACE with adaptive LED was better its all super bright infront and invariably the higher the car the worse it will be.
Atleast on my Insight (with candle halogens) the slight spill of light up the road works well with cats eyes.
Other thing is the cut off is so sharp you don't really get much light spill up the road to cats eyes. So its either super bright light daylight or pitch black. Similar issue on an XE i drove although an F PACE with adaptive LED was better its all super bright infront and invariably the higher the car the worse it will be.
Atleast on my Insight (with candle halogens) the slight spill of light up the road works well with cats eyes.
Surely that requires a lot of looking at the mirrors and not looking where you're going?
This thread has reminded me that I need to change my MX5's bulbs for brighter ones though, I rarely drive it in the dark but when I do I notice that the headlights are like glow-worms in jars.
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When in my Dad's RR I do notice that they are incredibly bright. I feel for anyone who comes around the corner and the auto full beams take a full second to dip to only being semi blinding.
Driving a lowered MX5 - I get blinded by a lot of vehicles, range rovers or any 4x4 with xenons seem to be the worst. Find it more annoying when I get such a vehicle (or a van) behind me though. Would like an auto-dipping rear mirror really.
Sharp cut-off on LED headlights is a pain on the Seat Leon. Lovely and bright where the beam is them empty black void pass the cut-off. Standard Halogens on the A1 were better, in a way.
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Yes, I've noticed this too. I guess the scatter of halogen actually has it's upsides!
Not so bad with main beam on, but on dipped the surroundings are literally unlit.
Ditto in my Z4 which is stupidly low (hopefully fixing soon)
Whilst I've got an auto-dipping rear view mirror the wing mirrors still give a blinding
I agree, It's very annoying. You feel like at times you are driving into the unknown, literally can't see anything beyond their lights! Lets also not forget the increasing rate of lights with blue tints to them. So when you are driving on a road with bumps (Like 90% of UK roads...), it can give the appearance of blue flashing lights at longer distances.
100% agree with the consensus in this thread. Far too many cars on the road blind the hell out of me when not even using full beam. As others have said RR and mercs are notoriously bad. Surely it should be regulated better. This combined with poorly maintained duel carriageways with faded white lines and no lighting (cats or overhead) is a terrible combo. Get blinded all the time from oncoming car then it takes ages for my eyes to adjust to the darkness of the road.