Jaguar X-Type headlamp aims

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The chances are that other manufactures may have this device fitted as well,for BMW"s having it not..... sure as i have not come across one yet.
It was a while ago,but i remember seeing a new shape vauxhall Astra having 2 headlamp units fitted at our place coz it had failed on incorrect beam,the thing is at the time seemed strange as it was right hand drive and the technician and everyone else assumed the wrong units had been fitted at some point so they where replaced,it may well be that the lamp units on this vehicle may have this function and the presenter may have replaced them unnecessarily. What does not help is the lack of markings and info on the lamp units them selves to identify left/right hand drive.
The presenter was given the units back so i may ask him to bring them back in to have a look.

If presented with a vehicle and the aims are incorrect such as the kick up going the wrong way,if the drivers handbook is available have a look to see if the aims can be transfer ed to the correct side,being able to read the Jaguar owners handbook its explained within the manual that the kick up can be adjusted and how to carry out the adjustment

I have seen it on BMWs as well.

I did a beach buggy back in the summer that I failed on the kick up being the wrong way. The lights were imported from Germany and the presenter threw a real wobbly because he had spent a lot of money. They had an arrow on the lens pointing the wrong way so they were 100% the wrong light.

The presenter kept going on about changing the front suspension height for a show the previous week which "obviously" caused the headlamp aim to be wrong and I struggled to explain the problem as he got onto this tunnel vision about adjusting the torsion bars.

It wasn't until he left the premises with a fail that the manager came through and said the car was only six months old, pro built by an outfit in Norfolk, at a cost of about £16k. A shortened Beetle chassis, brand new Buggy body.

SO!!! If it is a new build on a shortened chassis it needs whatever replaced the SVA test, which means trailering the car to a VOSA test centre, where they check many things like Ecodes on light lenses, radius of panel edges, testing whether the switches protude from the dash, checking the height of seat backrests, testing demist function, all sorts of bollocks beyond the scope of the MOT, so how the hell did it get through SVA with euro lights?

Never did see it for retest so I suppose somebody must have passed it for him.