Headlight masking for driving abroad

Rather than being a jack of all trades we are experts in this one fiel headlamp converters for driving in France. Headlight deflectors are simple stick-on patches that deflect the beams of our headlights, ensuring that the lights don’t shine too brightly on drivers coming in the opposite direction.

Cheap, easy-to-fit and available at your local Halfords, they’re part of any essential European travel kit. Will headlamp converters fit headlights? Are headlight beam deflectors legal in UK?

How do British car headlights work?

Can I Drive in France with a beam of my headlights? You can find headlight beam adaptors in the ABD store – they’re available on their own or included in our European driving kits, which provide all the essentials you need for motoring across Europe. Is it a quick and easy thing to adjust the xenon lights of my Range Rover for night driving in France? Any help appreciated.

Ford have been next to useless on advising whether I can manually adjust the lights for RHD driving on the continent. Use them abroad, then take them off when you get back. Having said that, I normally stick a piece of masking tape somewhere in the right area, by looking at the beam pattern in the dark, and blanking off the bit to the left.

The part number is: 63. You can find headlamp beam converters on their own, or as part of an international kit coming packaged with a magnetic GB plate - another requirement for driving in France and other countries.

That sai a set of spare bulbs (HBand HBmains) etc would be worth taking just in case, although the number of French etc vehicles with faulty lights makes a mockery of the insistence for UK cars to carry a set of spares! I am sorry, there is no switch on the smax headlights. As for converters yes, they exist.

TFSi Sport with standard halogen lights. I checked my user manual again, and it says that for models equipped with LED headlights, like mine, there is no need for headlight deflectors while driving abroad.

If the headlamp is glass and has a pattern cast into the internal surface the triangular section at the lower right hand corner is the bit that causes the asymmetric flare or kick up. Mask the triangle with black tape and check the beam against a wall feet in front of the car to see if the beam now has a horizontal cut-off.

Vehicles with halogen headlamps It is not necessary to switch your headlamps to symmetrical dipped beam when driving in countries where vehicles are driven on the opposite side of the road to the country in which the vehicle is registered. Legal requirements are fulfilled without switching the headlamps to symmetrical dipped beam. Black masking tape will absorb a percentage of the headlight beam and convert it into heat energy.

European Car Travel Kit Driving France - NF Approved Alcohol Breathalyser, Warning Triangle, GB Sticker, Hi-Vis Vests, Headlight Adaptors, Universal Bulb Kit, First Aid Kit in Black Bag 3. Hi, Does anyone know where to position the headlight masking to stop me blinding everyone when driving on the continent. My dealer doesnt know the answer ( bit worrying) and Halfords et al have not caught up with the advice sheets yet.

Headlights are equipped which do not blind drivers approaching in the opposite direction no matter what side of the road you must drive your vehicle (left-hand or right-handtraffic). SE, which I plan to drive in France soon. However, I can find no way either to adjust or mask the headlights for driving on the right to avoid blinding oncoming vehicles, as required by French law. My car has “basic” LED headlights.

I have on occasions, when I know I would be driving at night used some plain masking tape.

Job done I never bothers with the Beam benders TBH. For years I owned a B5. Estate and that had a small lever behind each headlight to mask the left "kick up" above horizontal for going overseas. When switching it from Left Hand to Right Hand driving in the vehicle settings, the headlight beam simply seems to be lowered.

Not driving in the dark will not prevent the French Police from fining you for not having your headlamps adjusted. I drive to and from Spain via France twice a year and purchase the adhesive beam deflectors from Care4car. They are effective and come off easily if you leave the headlamps on for mins or so before peeling them off. Even if you don’t have adaptive shadow technology, due to the way the LED lights are set they will not dazzle they have a sharp cut off beam.

So there is no setting for left or right hand drive. If you go onto Volvo forums.