Crap headlights on the new van

Must just be a s*it design or poor reflectors, our V50 is the same, I consider it dangerous.

Much the same on my 65 Peugeot Partner. FWIW.

Worst we’ve come across were on a hired Vaxhaul Mokka. So bad we stopped driving at night to see what was wrong with them.

Tim

Don't buy a Jaguar XF. The main beams are just about acceptable., but the weak dipped beans and low driving position coupled to the fact that the car is a foot wider than anybody expects make dark country roads stressful

What never dried a 2CV, you had to crank those as you put more people in the so called back seat. Brian

Ta. When cars are not coming the other way the light on the road is acceptable

I am going to buy some Osram Night Breakers and give them a try (well book them out on the works account)

I see from the specs that it has height-adjustable headlights. Is it possible they are faulty, or perhaps someone before you set them for a very heavy load in the back and didn't reset them when the load was removed? Without a load they'd be illuminating an area much closer to the front of the van.

Yes, I've faffed about with that, without success. Even with the lights 'up' the light is still poor - and (of course) annoys oncoming traffic.

Worth a go at £20 - I'll be interested to hear how you get on . . .

If you are over 50, your eyes will start to fail to respond after being briefly dazzled. Old age sucks, and then you die.

It certainly does and you will.

Mate of mine was 60 in November, that's not old.

On Tuesday he was at work. On Friday he was diagnosed with lung cancer that has spread to his heart, liver and kidneys.

Mate of mine 72 or thereabouts, non smoker, non drinker, never took drugs not overweight has a massive stroke and dies.

Another phones me up and says he may need to go into hospital, then he phoned me up saying he only had six months to live, then he phoned me up and said 2 weeks, and 3 days later he died of metastasised bowel cancer.

Have a friend dying of motor neurone disease, think Stephen Hawkins, can't eat can't talk, needs a suction pump to cough. All in under a year from being fine.

Its really rather depressing

When all cars had H4, they were OK. Now all are LED, they're not. As your eyes adjust to the brightness of oncoming traffic.

You can get LED replacement bulbs for H4. Depending on the headlight design, they might just give a decent beam pattern, and not dazzle others.

My car has bullseye headlights, and they give a good beam pattern independent of bulb types.

Or funny

If that comes as a surprise to you then count yourself lucky. The distribution of deaths means the odds are we all end up knowing people who get nowhere near "life expectancy".

And for the younger folk, bear in mind male life expectancy is around

So living with (reasonably) good health, and then going downhill fairly rapidly (like some of the cases mentioned above) is a pretty good outcome.

Personally I'd prefer to just not wake up.

Not clear how that feels for those that get that brilliant result.

Although AIUI LED replacements for H4 are still not legal.