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Offline Willpower

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Re: Re: LED headlights; driving in Europe
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2017, 05:33:44 pm »
Nope I can't see anything either. Clicking on the link or copy and pasting into my browser only comes up with a Error 404 message.

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Re: LED headlights; driving in Europe
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2017, 06:54:31 pm »
It just shows how little accurate information Mazda dealers have when a question is asked in my previous post:  “I believe the previous statement is incorrect – having spoken to Portfield Mazda of Chichester, so I will be fitting beam deflectors again this year when I go to France.”
Hopefully we can see the beam pattern this time in the word doc attached!- wrong now in PDF form and can be viewed, but dont bother printing it as the yellow seems to vanish on my printer.........
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Re: LED headlights; driving in Europe
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2017, 10:34:45 am »
Interesting pictures... This might explain why the high-beam has such poor 'reach' using the LED adaptive headlamps.  On all my other vehicles, the high beams will illuminate 100+ metres of the road ahead, whilst the CX-5 will only do about 50-60 meters at best.  It is a very bright 50-60 meters, but it doesn't cast onto the horizon to let you know of upcoming bends or objects in the road.   I do find that not using the adaptive functionality and just the manual high-beam does seem to improve the distance that i can see ahead, but I do wish that the high beam shone further out into the distance.

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Re: LED headlights; driving in Europe
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2017, 10:34:45 am »