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As of a couple of days ago, my dealer still had not heard back from LR about this mis-engineering. Hopefully they now recognise the fault and have referred to LR UK rather than dismiss it.
I really appreciated my hastily-mounted driving lights on a 600 km evening drive earlier this week. I switched them off for a moment to show my wife just how useless and distracting the halogens were, shining up in the trees with no side visibility at ground level, and no bull-bar yet either.
Are there any ADR changes in the lights for Australia compared to elsewhere?
Not that I've uncovered.
Ditto - my dealer also says "nothing yet" from LR. I'm due in for a service in a few weeks, so will be putting on more pressure at that point. I am still holding off on installing the spotlights - but with ARB now indicating a late-March delivery of bull-bars it's getting tempting. Really is the most bizarre light pattern I've ever seen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
1 week ago ARB Canberra advised that the bar is still at the design stage and being held-up due to lack of access to a vehicle. June is now the anticipated availability date. Canberra have my order for one painted in my vehicle's colour.
They can have mine for a week,( seriously ) but they will have to come over here for it. Anything to speed the process !Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
I had the vehicle at the dealer's yesterday for an early change of most of the oils, which didn't happen but that's not the dealer's fault as LR still haven't supplied 3.0 engine or TC oil.
But what did happen was some bright-spark techo adjusted the headlamps because I had complained about the high beam alignment. With only the lights shining on a wall and without following LR's adjustment procedure using the correct equipment, he adjusted them down to make the halogens shine where he thought they should. They now light-up the tree trunks, the bi-xenon high beam is now a bright spot just in front of the vehicle and the low beam cuts-off less than 10 metres in front of the bumper. Low beam now lights-up less than 5 metres of road over the bonnet!
Driving 4 hours after dark at 100-110 kph with only 5 metres of road visible due to oncoming traffic is not recommended but I had another 400 kms to go. I was able to take backroads for the last hour so that high beam and my HID driving lights could be used. I did get to see that the halogen high beams would be quite useful if the assemblies had been correctly made.
Apart from demonstrating the ineptitude of the techo and my nervous drive home, it was a good demonstration that there is a real problem with these headlight assemblies.
Well, I took delivery yesterday of my D4 TD2.7 with halogen head lamps and found that the rhs high beam light is pointing too far to the left. After removing the dust boot on the headlamp revealing the high beam bulb I noticed that the metal bulb retainer is mounted on 4 pegs protruding from the reflector. The spring steel bulb retainer has 4 speed nuts puched out of it to secure it to the 4 pegs of the reflector. If the holder is not pressed onto the reflector pegs correctly, then the beam will be out of adjustment. Being speed nuts they can be easily moved to a differnt postion, albeit very carefully. My dealer is pretty good and I know they were able to fix my brother's RRS headlight alignment so I'll have a talk to the mechanincs and see what they say tomorrow before fidling (bad habit of mine being an engineer)
Keep us posted on the dealer's action or your 'fiddling ". There are quite a few of us with 'possum hunting' headlights looking for a fix.
I investigated mine's bulb holders and their attachments to the reflectors on more than 1 occasion and found nothing loose or improperly fitted. I also tried alternate globes. Both headlights are affected and the pattern is very good, just way too high which suggests the bi-xenon assembly is the culprit as it's pattern doesn't use the reflector.
I ponder the possibility that during the headlight assembly perhaps slightly-different D3 bi-xenon assemblies were fitted, either thinking they were the same or just got the parts mixed-up.