Urgent help needed.

poodledoodledoo

Aarrrgh!!
Off to France tomorrow, can't work out where the headlight converters go .
We've got a 1999 Vauxhall Zafira and the instructions are vague to say the least. I am a total novice at this kind of thing so please could someone explain to me where I have to fit them in a way that a 5 year old child would understand
Thanks in advance moneysavers! :money:

Mr_Warren_2

The headlight converters fit to a different part of the headlights (ie. the area blancked out on the driver side will not be the symetrical same on the passenger side). Each car is different so in my Saab, those areas are clearly marked in the owner's manual. Check you car manual. If that is too difficult to carry out, please be assured that French Police is only bothered and happy enough to see some black sparky tape masking an area on both headlights. They won't go looking if you have covered the correct bit of the glass. What i used to do (and that was much cheaper) until i got a Saab, was to cover a small part of each headlight with 2 or 3 strips of sparky tape. All done, tick in the box....Circulez, y-a-rien a voir !

poodledoodledoo

Thanks very much.
I think I will try waiting until it gets dark and then see if it's any clearer to me.
The manual really didn't contain much useful information (well not any that I could understand anyway )

Lum

uktyler wrote: »

If you park your car facing a wall (at night) you can see the beam pattern. UK headlights give a pattern that goes up on the left, this is what dazzles other drivers when you drive on the right. Just position the stickers so the light pattern stays flat.

Do this.

However I'd also add that you should cover the light you are not working on with a towel or similar, then you will be able to see the beam pattern clearly. It's then just a case of leaning over with the sticker and moving it around until the upward tick is obscured and the beam pattern is flat. Then repeat for the other headlight.

Rallydriver

Headlight deflectors were meant to work with the old style headlamps where the pattern was determined by the cuts in the glass lens.

The beam in a modern lamp is created by the reflector and has a clear lens. Beam deflectors are fairly useless in this situation.The only way to get the beam to cut across properly is to cover quite a large area of the lens with tape. Be aware though that the lens is plastic, so if you use tape with too strong a glue it'll be a pain to get off when you arrive back.

Modern projector lamp units (The ones where its a small round domed lens sometimes hiding HIDS (xenon) lamps) can usually be adjusted for driving on the right by moving a lever on the back of the lamp unit.