Interesting about the coding. I guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow!!

I had read the IIHS article earlier. VW had the acceptable AND poor list! Oops.

 

Nice write-up. Thanks Perry01.

Every once in a while I get flashed, and my hids are old enough to be starting to dim. Go figure.

 

Been an advocate of raising the lights in the Treg for a while. I have a rule not to overdrive my lights...which when stock would mean I couldn't go over 45mph...I said screw that raised them up. Now I can go the speed limit up to about 70mph. No one flashes me either.

 

I'll have to take a look at what mine are set at; being a canadian vehicle I assume it falls into ROW coding vs US, but I have no complaints about my headlights with new bulbs. The height seems to be just right, judging by the cutoff location on distant signs/objects.

I'd have to agree with you though - the US has some pretty strict [ridiculous] standards wrt some of their vehicle regulations.

 

the US has some pretty strict [ridiculous] standards wrt some of their vehicle regulations.

No doubt, especially the EPA. >

 

You're probably right; now that I think about it, my transmission coding was originally US (aka not the greatest transmission programming).

Is it really a big difference from stock/US settings? As I say I don't have too much to complain about with new bulbs but maybe I'll give this a shot.

 

It raises the curtain on the Bi-Xenon bulb a little which raises the cutoff. (The curtain raises all the way for high beam) Not a huge improvement but defiantly noticeable.

 

Doesn't it just tilt the projectors up a bit? The shutters are vertical or horizontal. I don't think they are variable.

 

You're probably correct due to the need for adaptation on a level surface after recoding.
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