On my A5 I have noticed my "fancy" LED headlights are pretty useless at night
- when I accelerate (like when you want to actually see infront of you) they draw in close to you, about a car length in front, so you can only really see on a pitch black road, a few meters in front, forcing you to use main beam which then lights up everything. It's even worse going up hills.
- The right beam might as well not work at all. They are ECE beam patterns with a steep angle and sharp cut off, merged together when driving which creates a kinda V of pitch blackness right infront of the driver...
I don't get who designed these and why. My 8v s3 FL which was older than a b9 A5 had awesome lights, DOT cut offs (pretty much a straight line just staggered slightly lower on the right side) and 4 actual beams with the clever Matrix thing (which i never used). I literally used full beam twice my entire year of ownership the dipped were that good.
If I follow a car my A5 beams are not even touching the back bumper of it.
Pretty hard to get a pic of them as when actually driving the stupid auto levelling moves the beams a good 5 meters back towards you:
You can sort of see it here, but now imagine the entire pair of beams moving 4-5m back...
- when I accelerate (like when you want to actually see infront of you) they draw in close to you, about a car length in front, so you can only really see on a pitch black road, a few meters in front, forcing you to use main beam which then lights up everything. It's even worse going up hills.
- The right beam might as well not work at all. They are ECE beam patterns with a steep angle and sharp cut off, merged together when driving which creates a kinda V of pitch blackness right infront of the driver...
I don't get who designed these and why. My 8v s3 FL which was older than a b9 A5 had awesome lights, DOT cut offs (pretty much a straight line just staggered slightly lower on the right side) and 4 actual beams with the clever Matrix thing (which i never used). I literally used full beam twice my entire year of ownership the dipped were that good.
If I follow a car my A5 beams are not even touching the back bumper of it.
Pretty hard to get a pic of them as when actually driving the stupid auto levelling moves the beams a good 5 meters back towards you:
You can sort of see it here, but now imagine the entire pair of beams moving 4-5m back...
