D4 high-beam alignment

I noticed sniegy's comments in the midst of his (totally understandable) rant about his new ride, to the following effect:

LR have replied to me late last week about yours & a few others.
We will wait until the Quality Assurance program is done & check then.
Otherwise it is 2 new lights.

Yay - maybe there is light at the end of this loony tunnel, if you'll pardon the rather limp pun! Hopefully we'll get our QA program soon - the poms have had theirs a month or more already. And hopefully it will fix a bunch of these niggling issues - including the danged possum-spotters (even if that is ultimately via the "2 new lights").

I didn't doubt that the lights would be fixed or replaced once it became known that the lights on some vehicles were OK.

Well I was forced to pull the headlamp assembly off tonight as i blew my high beam bulb off while fiddling. Anyway the high and low beam do move together via the 2 adjustment screws as the whole assembly is 1 piece cast alloy, but I have halogens.

Am i to assume the low beam xenons are self leveling? If that is the case then shouldn't the light assembly be adjusted so the high beam is at the correct level and then adjust the auto leveling low beams up to a suitable level as to not blind oncoming traffic whilst still giving good throw down the road. Just a thought

The standard bi-xenon lights are not self-levelling.

There goes that idea then. LR will need to find a solution then. Valeo is the manufacturer of the headlight and they make lights for all a lot of European cars. I have checked there service bulletins on there website but can find nothing on headlamp adjustment.

As I see it the only way to adjust the halogens is to adjust the whole headlight unit. This would need to be done first.
Cover the bi-xenons and adust the position of each unit.
Then re-adjust the xenons.

The vehicle should have been delivered correctly set in the first place. So dealer should fix.

I Pre-delivered Graeme's & my own vehicle. On the tester the lights seemed ok, but it is when you actually use them that they are out.
My left light is further out than my right unit.
To adjust the lights you need to plug them into SDD & adjust via computer.
Something i found out when in Sydney.
Another something to do when i get back to work.

p.s. The Q093 will be released very soon if not starting to be done now. you will be notified in the mail.

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Originally Posted by sniegy

p.s. The Q093 will be released very soon if not starting to be done now. you will be notified in the mail.

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any idea what this will entail and will it be specific to all D4's?

Thanks
brad

Brad,
I havent been to work much in the last 2 weeks as i have been a little crook.
But before i left the Q093 was in progress to be released by end of month.
I hear that there is a lot to do with the electronics of the vehicle & a LOT of downloads.
One of the guys has posted the UK version of the recall but i cant fnd it at present.
There are a few things added as some are Aus specific.

Sorry i dont have all the specific's.

But yes all D4's will be involved.
As per all recalls some will be engine specific, & some will be VIN specific.
The recall will advise what is to be done to each vehicle depending on what type yours is.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by CaverD3

As I see it the only way to adjust the halogens is to adjust the whole headlight unit. This would need to be done first.
Cover the bi-xenons and adust the position of each unit.
Then re-adjust the xenons.

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There is no seperate external adjustment for the bi-xenons and the halogens, and no visible internal adjustment that I can see for the bi-xenons with the headlight assembly sitting on a bench with the globe access covers removed. The bi-xenon dipped beam is used to adjust the assembly for beam height and left/right and both the bi-xenon high beam the halogen high beam are then expected to be correct.

My low-beam was originally well-aligned, so no pre-delivery error.