RE: Headlight brilliance

["Rob Winchell" <rbw@avs.com>]

So, you're going to be happily blinding other drivers by aiming your lights
too high? That doesn't sound like a great solution.

Rob Winchell
91 200Q
87 4kCS

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
> [mailto:owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net]On Behalf Of Mark Byrum
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 1998 4:47 PM
> To: Quattro
> Subject: Headlight brilliance
>
>
> I am unsure why so much bandwidth is devoted to euro-lights v. usa
> lights v. H1's v. H4's, etc.  When I bought my 86 4kcsq about a year and
> a half ago, I was not a Quattro subscriber, thus knew nothing of this
> thread.  I picked the car up from the previous owner after dark,
> however, and immediately that the headlights didn't illiminate up ahead
> "worth Jack." I assumed that whomever last adjusted them messed up and
> pointed them too low.  I got my tools out and re-adjusted them upwards
> until I was happy with the low-beam performance.  At high-beam they are
> better than low-beam, which is appropriate.  Now that I have "read the
> thread(s)" and understand the allegations of deficient German
> Engineering(?) as respects this aspect of Audi's, I suspect I may have
> over-adjusted the lights just after I bought the car.  If, when the car
> is inspected next month, the lights are discovered to be aimed too high,
> I will notice the number of "turns" taken off the adjuster screws, and
> promptly put them back on when I get the car home.  When I have the
> opportunity and spare cash to put into driving lights, I will attempt to
> install them below the bumper, hopefully within an opening in the air
> dam.  Until then, I will let my screwdriver make the necessary change
> rather than my check-book for euro-lights.
> 	very respectfully,
> 	markbyrum@erols.com
>