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Always interesting about how people get angry about headlights in the USA. Being from Europe, the European ones are superior. They go further and they are brig

Always interesting about how people get angry about headlights in the USA. Being from Europe, the European ones are superior. They go further and they are brighter, and have a different cut-off: ECE vs DOT: https://i.ibb.co/ryf8W0w/dotece.jpg https://i.ibb.co/ryf8W0w/dotece.jpg When I lived in Europe (Belgium) every year the beam height was checked on my car. That way I wouldn't blind people when driving behind them. Here in there US there are no such things, yet cars often enough get headlights replaced which aren't adjusted afterwards. Or people install a lift-kit which hasn't been taken into account when designing the vehicle. Now I wonder if the Macan has different lights in the US vs ROW, as the cut-off isn't something that is easily changeable, and it would massively increase the cost for something that is never activated. But having the same bulbs makes sense. That said, I looked into replacing the headlights on mine, but then you end up with a Frankenstein's monster car, as parts of it are US coded, and parts EU. I did get EU mirrors.

lifestyleguru 2y ago
> European ones are superior. No they aren't. Driving on the roads in continental Europe I see it all. LED lights with blue glare, road beams with strength of high beams, adaptive strobing LED/laser headlights, adaptive LED/laser headlights scanning surroundings with top-down bright horizontal line, badly adjusted headlights directed and the eyesight level. Includes brand new unmodified cars.
trinix912 2y ago
> Being from Europe, the European ones are superior. They go further and they are brighter Driving in Europe, I get constantly blinded by french cars and their headlights. Those headlights are just way too bright, combined with shitty engineering. The automatic ones don't turn off fast enough. Then you have people blinking at approaching cars to trigger that sensor. Many drivers don't bother manually turning them off, on some cars the headlights are still controlled by a rotary switch that requires you to take your hands off the steering wheel, while on others the auto-headlights aren't easy to re-enable if you had to manually turn them off once so people don't bother turning them off at all.

lifestyleguru 2y ago

> European ones are superior. No they aren't. Driving on the roads in continental Europe I see it all. LED lights with blue glare, road beams with strength of high beams, adaptive strobing LED/laser headlights, adaptive LED/laser headlights scanning surroundings with top-down bright horizontal line, badly adjusted headlights directed and the eyesight level. Includes brand new unmodified cars.

trinix912 2y ago

> Being from Europe, the European ones are superior. They go further and they are brighter Driving in Europe, I get constantly blinded by french cars and their headlights. Those headlights are just way too bright, combined with shitty engineering. The automatic ones don't turn off fast enough. Then you have people blinking at approaching cars to trigger that sensor. Many drivers don't bother manually turning them off, on some cars the headlights are still controlled by a rotary switch that requires you to take your hands off the steering wheel, while on others the auto-headlights aren't easy to re-enable if you had to manually turn them off once so people don't bother turning them off at all.