headlights in france

[ChrisUK]

If it is just a matter of just replacing the bulbs, then one cannot be referring to xenon headlamps. True xenon headlights are a completely different system and need about 300 volts to get them started so it is almost impossible to retrofit them. Maybe you are referring to bulbs emitting the same colour of light as xenon lights. These are legal but their beam pattern is determined by the existing headlamp lens, not by the bulb.

My Xtrails xenon HID lights do in fact kick up to the left (perhaps not as much as conventional lights)and I am wary of using stickers, so I'm not sure what I will do next time I go to france. May be as I have done before avoid driving at night, and if I do in urban areas only use the fog lights.

The HIDs are great, but I have read they are expensive if they go wrong (

 

[Chrisbee]

http://www.motuk.co.uk/manual_160.htm