debdabble
Free Member
Well Hi to everyone again. I posted a question about beam benders and my headlights about 6 weeks ago. Unfortunately we are no better off despite our best efforts.
We took our van to be weighed yesterday at the garage we have it serviced at (owner has had motorhomes over the years), as departure for France, Spain and Portugal is looming.
We took along the beam benders we had purchased as we have had no opportunity to try these since our last efforts and the verdict is, as seen by my own eyes using his headlight testing equipment, it is impossible to make any noticeable difference to the light beam because our van (Fiat Ducatto base) has Hymer halogen spotlights.
He tried every which way to adjust the beam and it won't work. Advice given was to go but do not drive in the dark (was never planning to anyway on roads I don't know).
To set them for Europe would involve a pig of a job to have the headlights reset, and then they would have to be reset for this country when we got back as we would be more likely to drive in the dark in this country ,and he could not pass it for it's MOT with the lights set for abroad.
Now as this van is 10 years old and has spent most of it's time in Spain we can only assume this is what the previous owners have done.
No pun intended, but can anyone throw any light on this or had a similar experience.
Thanks, Debbie
We took our van to be weighed yesterday at the garage we have it serviced at (owner has had motorhomes over the years), as departure for France, Spain and Portugal is looming.
We took along the beam benders we had purchased as we have had no opportunity to try these since our last efforts and the verdict is, as seen by my own eyes using his headlight testing equipment, it is impossible to make any noticeable difference to the light beam because our van (Fiat Ducatto base) has Hymer halogen spotlights.
He tried every which way to adjust the beam and it won't work. Advice given was to go but do not drive in the dark (was never planning to anyway on roads I don't know).
To set them for Europe would involve a pig of a job to have the headlights reset, and then they would have to be reset for this country when we got back as we would be more likely to drive in the dark in this country ,and he could not pass it for it's MOT with the lights set for abroad.
Now as this van is 10 years old and has spent most of it's time in Spain we can only assume this is what the previous owners have done.
No pun intended, but can anyone throw any light on this or had a similar experience.
Thanks, Debbie