Re: Xenon lights, help?

["john r. cummings" <jrc100@earthlink.net>]

Aleksander Mierzwa wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Aleksander Mierzwa
> Warsaw, Poland
> 87 5KT

    I had the same reaction when my daughter was following me in my
wifes A6. I
wondered what she wanted- I thought she wanted me to pull over!
	The US cars do have the auto leveling system, but you can take my word
that it does
not work well enough to be safe. My wife and I have driven our car for
27000
miles and can't stand the lighting. We both much prefer the euro lights
on my
20 valve turbo 200. As someone else pointed out there is no comparison
between
the B and M  systems and Audis! The dealer who sold us the Audi sells
both of
those brands and I can tell you their's work!