V12noise Report post Posted January 7, 2019 Is there any way to change between RHD and LHD beams without buying complete light units, i.e. any way the projectors can be altered? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy Report post Posted January 7, 2019 46 minutes ago, V12noise said: Is there any way to change between RHD and LHD beams without buying complete light units, i.e. any way the projectors can be altered? I'd be surprised if Lambo made 2 versions of these headlights given the small numbers, so if I had to guess, they made it so the same lights can be modified to work on both sides of the road. You'd probably get more responses about the needed modifications by posting a more UK-centric site lke Pistonheads: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=240 If you find out what it takes to modify them, I just posted a DIY on how to safely open the headlights for cleaning. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
V12noise Report post Posted January 8, 2019 14 hours ago, Stimpy said: I'd be surprised if Lambo made 2 versions of these headlights given the small numbers, so if I had to guess, they made it so the same lights can be modified to work on both sides of the road. You'd probably get more responses about the needed modifications by posting a more UK-centric site lke Pistonheads: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/forum.asp?h=0&f=240 If you find out what it takes to modify them, I just posted a DIY on how to safely open the headlights for cleaning. Good job on the headlight cleaning and many thanks for publishing it - on my job list, and when I get in there I'll see what the projectors do. Pistonheads supercar forum is about self-inflated people going on incessantly about the values of their cars, so I don't hold out much hope for a technical discussion there... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy Report post Posted January 9, 2019 Thanks and you're welcome! Yeah, it's a pretty dead forum, but they did have at least this one thread on the LHD/RHD topic: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=240&t=1462231 Maybe you can contact the people in the thread directly to see what they learned since it's not conclusive on the thread. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digibeam Report post Posted January 12, 2019 The projectors can be aimed for the correct orientation though you should have it done at a shop with the correct beam alignment tool as adjusting your own headlamps is actually a no no in the eyes of the DOT and people tend to favour thier own viewpoint of illumination than the drivers receiving it in the on coming lane usually blinding them in the process with maladjusted headlamps..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
V12noise Report post Posted January 13, 2019 For the low beam, the pattern needs to be asymmetrical, i.e. that there is portion of the beam blanked off, so that the oncoming cars dont have the light shone at them. If you adjust the aiming, the whole pattern is shifted. However on cars like the Ferrari 360, there is a lever to choose between LHD and RHD settings on the projector. I was hoping the Lambo had something similar... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stimpy Report post Posted January 13, 2019 7 hours ago, V12noise said: For the low beam, the pattern needs to be asymmetrical, i.e. that there is portion of the beam blanked off, so that the oncoming cars dont have the light shone at them. If you adjust the aiming, the whole pattern is shifted. However on cars like the Ferrari 360, there is a lever to choose between LHD and RHD settings on the projector. I was hoping the Lambo had something similar... To see what can be adjusted on the headlights, turn the steering wheel so the wheel turned into the car, and then take off the access panel with 3 phillips screws. There's 3 adjustments if I remember correctly. I didn't see anything like a lever. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digibeam Report post Posted January 14, 2019 The high beam is created by an actuator on the main lamp assembly that is also the low beam when not active, it is a controlled flag that’s dropped into and out of the beam blocking or allowing the high beam to radiate the variable between its position in relation to high and low as a unit, is fixed and cannot be altered, the focus or direction the beam is pointed to on the other hand can be adjusted through the forward panel in the wheel well as pointed out by Stimpy, and is a fairly simple task, but should not be done without the headlamp alignment specs for the very reason I mentioned previously, but it’s your car, you are free to do as you please with it, just be thoughtful of opposing drivers at night. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
V12noise Report post Posted January 14, 2019 Here is what I mean ab out beam pattern: All I'm saying is I was sceptical that the conversion between LHD and RHD could be done by the up-down and right-left adjustments. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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