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High Beam gap?
So when driving with the high beams on at night, I've noticed that there is a gap between the top of the low beam, and the bottom of the high beam. Its almost like the high beam is set too high (or low beam too low?), The gap is basically a blue colored hue. Its very apparent because I see it when the high beam comes on.
I'm guessing that the inner lights are the high beam, and I can even see the outline of the angel eyes. Anyone else seeing this? Not sure if there is a issue with the light or just the level setting. Thanks guys! |
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12-31-2019, 11:23 PM | #2 |
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Need year of your car and type of lights you have optioned on your car to help.
Regardless sounds normal. Doesn't sound like you have a defective car. I take it from your posts recently that you are new to this car and learning it's quirks? Congrats!
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Hey BKutta, I don't even have the car yet, but I think I read somewhere that the inner lights are decorative (non-functioning) on M2C with Adaptive LED headlights. Maybe you can drive up to a wall and test it out?
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No this is not normal. I've owned many cars before and there is no gap in light coverage when the high beams go up. |
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I see the same darker blue area as shown in the pic above. When driving it does feel somewhat like a void in that region.
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It's not a void it's just a reflection from jewelled part of light. Look at most new bmw in your rear mirror. You will see the blue refraction of light.
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Notice my wording: " When driving it does feel somewhat like a void" -- I said it felt like a void which it does.
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Whatever it is, its weird. Its poor design if you ask me, to be able to differentiate the areas covered by the low and high beams.
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Normal -- the bluish edge is from the sharp cutoff of the low beam pattern, which maintains high brightness and uniformity right up to the edge (if they didn't cut it off the bluish edge would be gone but you'd blind oncoming drivers). This is a trade off for having full intensity/brightness right up to the edge, and most people would accept this if it means brighter, more uniform lows.
The high beams are more diffuse and cover a wider spread without a cutoff. So when they come on the two are superimposed and the edge of the low beam becomes more apparent. But it's not a gap or a bad thing, it's just the optics of two different light patterns being superimposed. I remember many years ago being on an early auto motive internet forum when projector headlights started becoming common, and there were a lot of complaints about this. Some people were really disoriented by the sharp cutoff of the low beams and hated them. No amount of discussion could convince them that the new lights were better because they were more uniform and brighter right up to the cutoff, versus old "lamp" style low beams that were only bright in the middle and then faded and got dramatically dimmer away from center. |
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That's just normal though. Usually your driving down a road. Not parked up right next to your garage moaning about the fact you can actually see with your eyes where low beam meets full beam. Get a life and enjoy your car
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I'm enjoying my car, thanks. Any I can see the void (and blue light outline) out in space while I drive, not while against a garage wall. It's weird and not something I've experienced. But the poster above explains this effect pretty well.
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This is different and far more pronounced. It's not "normal" in terms of high end, high quality lighting. It's just a quirk of this particular LED light design you live with and ignore.
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This makes me even more glad I stuck with non adaptive LED lights.
a) no annoying / disorienting moving beams or slow auto-dip b) no strange void / gap betweem high low beams. c) no blue refraction line above low beam cut off. One less function to malfunction too.... |
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Yep, A, B & C are all reasons not to have "silly" gimmicky adaptive lights. Had them before, crap.
Awesome, future proof? my ass. This seasons latest must-have more like. And the 2 series / M2C versions are cheap low tech versions at that. Nothing like the premium 3/4/5/6/7 versions which are still poor and slow to react. And those hex rings? oh dear 😂 At least the non adaptive rings are instantly recognisible BMW lights. I'm ready to be flamed, but each to their own, Last edited by doughboy; 01-04-2020 at 07:24 PM.. |
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The adaptive leds on my wife’s new Golf R are streets ahead of the ones on my M2.
Far quicker to react, and split the beam in a much more satisfying way. BMW ones seem pretty low tech in comparison, although I haven’t noticed the issue that the OP has. |
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