I drive a van, so I could easily be the culprit. I therefore make a habit of adjusting my beam dip appropriately. Apparently that is unusual enough for them to note they had been adjusted in the service. There's literally a dial on the dashboard. You're SUPPOSED to adjust them to the vehicle and road conditions! Apparently not having them set to max is now considered a "fault" to fix!
If you normally drive the van with a load on the rear axle and it went for a service with nothing in the back, that could explain why they adjusted it higher.
The load varies, though I've found the suspension is hard enough that it doesn't shift for a normal load up. I mostly do it because I've noticed that, when I hit a bump, my lights can sweep up over the windows of cars in front.
Also, I don't mind them readjusting it. It's calling it a fault that bugged me.
When there's someone behind me with their brights on, i roll down the window and hold my palm over my left mirror so they can see me blocking the light (it has never worked)
Since you can't use your mirror anyway, just adjust it so that it reflects back at them.
Thank you! I have a tiny cataract, but even my good eye hates jeeps, and big rigs.
The main issue I see comes from regular headlights being replaced with LEDs and other High-Intensity bulbs. Don't get me wrong, Bubba with his lift kit is just redneck high-beams, but I get more frequent glare from someone in a Sentra who decided to put LEDs in her stock headlight assembly that wasn't made for LEDs.
That’s my feeling as well, but it would be great if any data exists. Most of the intentional LEDs may be super tight but also have very sharp cutoffs, no problem
How many of these blinding headlights are
That's the kind of freedom I love not to have in Europe (it's regulated).
For the ones wanting proof (fair):
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2011/48(2)/oj/eng
One such regulation. It's not perfect.
For me mainly bicycle lights are sometimes brighter than cars but mostly far too high and some on the back blinking too (illegal here, but still seeing it often).
Regulations not being enforced is another issue...
I'm from Europe and headlights suck here too! It's spectrum of LEDs and tall cars and probably bad regulations too.
It technically is in the US as well, but this is a corrupt, late stage Capitalist shithole, so, no one with power cares.
I'm just glad the Xenon fad is practically over
Now this is a community I can get behind, like a lifted pickup truck tailgating with his LED high beams on.
As a Tesla driver (yeah yeah) I’ve noticed in my heavily-Tesla area that 80% of the time when I think someone might have their highbeams on but it’s borderline that it’s a Tesla. It makes me uncomfortable about how bright my own lights are to others. My only consolation is that my car is 6+ years old, so there’s a (slim) chance that the new cars that are being rolled off the line are more poorly aligned than my own. Anyway I don’t know what I could do about it regardless.
It's something I have noticed too. 9/10 times an oncoming car is blinding me, it seems to be a Tesla. And not because their high beams are on. It might be confirmation bias, but it just seems like Tesla headlights have dogshit beam control optics on top of having fairly bright light sources.
Nope, not just you. I live in the greater Seattle area (nearly the tesla capital of the world) and 8/10 times I’m blinded is a tesla in oncoming traffic.
Rivians are also terrible, and most crossovers in the last 2-3 years have been increasingly bad.
Driving a lowered sports car with no windshield tint has made driving at night a horrible process. I’m debating getting a low % window tint just to take the edge off of the headlights.
Trade it for something a little lies swastikar-y.
Honestly I kinda wish I could, but financially it’s not in the cards.
My car's headlights blind me sometimes when they reflect off road signs. I tried to find warmer replacements, but it seems like that's just not a thing
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