Prob a silly question?

skytop

Hi, i just bought a 2001 audi a4 tdi. Picking it up tomorrow. I noticed on the test drive that the dims were very low( don't worry my test drive at night was to my mechanics well lit garage!!) and i couldn't find a dial or knob to raise them! am i blind or is there another way to raise them ??

Thanks for reading!!

jaffa20

German car dips are atrocious tbh. Same on my audi a3 and they can't be raised. Horrible halogen bulbs. You could try replacing them with Xenon bulbs. I haven't got around to doing that yet though.

skytop

jaffa20 wrote: »

German car dips are atrocious tbh. Same on my audi a3 and they can't be raised. Horrible halogen bulbs. You could try replacing them with Xenon bulbs. I haven't got around to doing that yet though.

Thanks ! Thats a good idea!:)

Viper_JB

jaffa20 wrote: »

German car dips are atrocious tbh. Same on my audi a3 and they can't be raised. Horrible halogen bulbs. You could try replacing them with Xenon bulbs. I haven't got around to doing that yet though.

Really makes all the difference and an be bought for around a tenner on ebay or so.

mickdw

Did you mean low powered or aimed too low?

PauloMN

If you mean adjusting the angle, there's a small knob on the right hand side close to the lights switch, it's a push-in/push-out knob. That'll adjust the angle of the lights. Mine's a 2003 though, not sure if it was something added to later models.

I put in new halogen bulbs recently and they gave me some improvement to the light intensity as I do a lot of driving in darkness in the winter. Got them from micksgarage.ie. They were Osram Night Breakers.

Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I don't think you can just stick Xenon bulbs in - you'd need to upgrade the whole lamp.

skytop

mickdw wrote: »

Did you mean low powered or aimed too low?

Aimed to low!

skytop

PauloMN wrote: »

If you mean adjusting the angle, there's a small knob on the right hand side close to the lights switch, it's a push-in/push-out knob. That'll adjust the angle of the lights. Mine's a 2003 though, not sure if it was something added to later models.

I put in new halogen bulbs recently and they gave me some improvement to the light intensity as I do a lot of driving in darkness in the winter. Got them from micksgarage.ie. They were Osram Night Breakers.

thanks a million!

skytop

Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I don't think you can just stick Xenon bulbs in - you'd need to upgrade the whole lamp.[/QUOTE]

Anyone know for sure if i can just stick in xenon bulbs?

mickdw

So its the aiming of the lights thats the problem. Firstly, you will find a little knob to move the lights up & down. This should be set to the lowest number to ensure the lights are aimed as far down the road as possible.

Seeing as its the aiming of the lights, get this right first before going messing with bulbs.
You can get all sorts of bulbs with names that imply xenon lights but in reality they are just bulbs that give off a light colour like xenons. They wont offer the benefits of true xenon headlamps. So yes you can upgrade the bulbs but you are not upgrading to xenon lights as this does require complete headlamps, control unit & coding etc.

First thing to do is get the mechanic to check the headline alignment.