Headlamp Aim

2015 my Ford Focus and c max standard halogen lamps now have no kick up. Consequently you don't need to do anything for continental driving


Will be interesting to check beam patterns on cars with LED adaptive lamps as they have around 7 different modes for different driving conditions.


Hopefully shouldn't be a problem come MOT time

As far as I can work out from DVSA we are given answers that do not address the questions asked so nobody there can be held to account if we make the in their eyes the wrong decision going by the non information they have supplied.

There is some newer Headlamp types with kick up that have the deflector built in to the back of the unit that can be switched over for driving on the right-when switched over the kick up image changes to a flat top image which shouldn't be an issue if the tester knows what he's looking for/doing
Good point though

Fail it when the break point goes out of the side door ?

Attended an IMI event with Hella a few weeks ago, amongst other things he was showing us the new Hella headlights.

Basically they are a bank of around 25 cree LED's, each one shines a light vertically and does not dip. So they shine like a fan (imagine your hand flat on the table, each beam will be vertical where your fingers are, but 25 of them).

When the cameras and radars detect a pedestrian, cyclist or other vehicle, any LED that would dazzle them temporarily gets covered up and as the object moves in relation to the vehicle each one would get uncovered and the next one becomes covered. They can track up to eight objects at once.

So when Dynamo joked about "Who said we can't do headlamp aim testing on the garage wall" this may just come about in the near future as we walk past to see if the system works.


From Hella Web site
"
The heart of the Matrix LED headlights is the mechanic free glare-free high beam. This allows the driver to travel in his vehicle with a permanent high beam without risk of dazzling oncoming traffic or any preceding vehicles. By means of a camera, oncoming and preceding traffic are detected and then, by the shutting down or dimming of individual LEDs, these vehicles are blanked out of the field of high beam light distribution in real time. The implementation of Matrix technology allows, for the first time, several tunnels to open simultaneously. One example of this is the scenario where several oncoming vehicles are driving one behind the other. While these are “masked out”, the high beam continues to illuminate all the areas between the vehicles and to the right and left of them at full power. As soon as no vehicle is any longer in the driver’s field of vision, the system once again reverts to full high beam lighting. In addition to the specific masking out of other vehicles, the light cone of the Matrix high beam also adapts to the driving situation, for instance in the case of negotiating bends when the dynamic bending light function is required. In such a situation, the intensity of the light cone can be varied on the sides or it can be focused on the middle of the road. Consequently the driver’s visibility at night improves dramatically while, at the same time, the risk of dazzling oncoming traffic is eliminated.

Such a function is technically possible thanks to the splitting up of the high beam into five reflectors, each one having a chip containing 5 LEDs. For the first time ever, the lighting expert, HELLA, has now succeeded in operating every LED on the 5-segment chip separately, whereby a total of 25 LEDs per headlight can be operated on full power or lowered as and when required."


Wally