L322 2011 L322 Xenon headlights not moving

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jeremy156

jeremy156

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Fairly new to my L322 (2011 Vogue). I believe it has adaptive headlights, but not 100% sure. What I do observe is that there is no "dance" when powered up, the lenses appear to remain fixed. No errors logged. Is this normal behaviour, aren't they supposed to self-level?
 
Firstly welcome :).

Easiest way is to park in front of a wall/garage door then you will see it easier. I have never tried to actually look at the light for movement.

When I do it with our 2011 you can see the headlight go through a range of movement against the wall on start up.

J
 
No movement at all, looks like no AFS for my car. That's probably good if it means less to go wrong!

Does the standard Xenon make any vertical adjustment, or is it all catered for my the suspension level?
 
marjon said:
Firstly welcome :).

Easiest way is to park in front of a wall/garage door then you will see it easier. I have never tried to actually look at the light for movement.

When I do it with our 2011 you can see the headlight go through a range of movement against the wall on start up.

J
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what lights do you have? I've HID, which don't dance, but as per other post, car should always be level?
 
kermit_rr said:
what lights do you have? I've HID, which don't dance, but as per other post, car should always be level?
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We have the expensive 1s too ;) But isnt HID the same thing as Xenon anyway?
Maybe we notice it cos the car does it on start up, not when you turn on the lights. As we have ours set as DLR they come on when ignition/start.

J
 
Neither of my facelift Vogues have had this feature but the 2008 Vogue SE did. The SE would adjust the lights up and down, then go slightly cross-eyed, it was quite cool I guess. Never noticed the difference in normal driving though.

 
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OK, weirdly when driving toward a wall to park, I could see clearly that the beam moved left/right with my steering input (until I was quite slow)... so it appears she *does* have the adaptive headlamps. I checked the label and this confirms AFS:

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... on which basis I'm confused as to why there's no dance/adjustment.
 
i drove a normal car once, with xenons.. it was awful - as the car went over bumps in the road, you could see the levelling try to keep up and fail, which meant you saw the beam cutoff dance and flicker
 
jeremy156 said:
OK, weirdly when driving toward a wall to park, I could see clearly that the beam moved left/right with my steering input (until I was quite slow)... so it appears she *does* have the adaptive headlamps. I checked the label and this confirms AFS:

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... on which basis I'm confused as to why there's no dance/adjustment.
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It could just be the "bending lights" (bottom outside of the headlight).
But anyway here's some bedtime reading for you :) .

J
 

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kermit_rr said:
i drove a normal car once, with xenons.. it was awful - as the car went over bumps in the road, you could see the levelling try to keep up and fail, which meant you saw the beam cutoff dance and flicker
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It's awful for oncoming traffic as well, you think you're being flashed for some reason, I don't like em that and,80 quid a pop for bulbs.
 
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