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Re: Xenon lights, help?



At 16:57 99-10-22 -0500, Copley One wrote:

>I'v never driven the new A6 at night.
>All I can tell you is that TWICE i've been followed by one (once on the
>twisties up the HH Pkwy at midnight after a long day in the city) and I
>wanted to get out of my car and kick the guy's ass driving the car for
>flashing them at me incessantly. It took me the longest time to figure
>out that the road surface was causing this. Seriously annoying - what's
>the fix?

On European models the Xenon lights are equipped with a system which keeps
the headlights level regardless of car body movements. I've heard that such
system is illegal by DOT regulations (?) and that's why it's absent on US
models.

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Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
87 5KT