Does the flatness(horizon of where light meets NO light) of the beam pattern at night cause a problem for anyone? I'm talking about not being able to see a great distance when travelling on back roads with no street lights, descending grades, or around turns. I don't want to always use the high beams in this situation, but I'm forced to sometimes. ANYONE??

 

i've noticed the drastic cutoff between light and dark too - sometimes even with the highbeams on if i'm taking a mountain road and it's a slight downgrade in the middle of the turn, especially a left turn cuz then the A pillar's in the way too. i try to make myself look beyond the range of the headlight but that's difficult and I forget to blink, almost like playing Gran Turismo!

 

Hey andy,

I haven't had too much of a problem. In fact, I rarely use the high beams because the low beams are so good. How good is your night vision? I'm part wolf, so that helps. The only thing I can't get over is the people who flash their brights at me all the time. I don't know if they just don't LIKE my HIDs or if they think my brights are on. You'd think with all the cars coming out with HIDs they'd be used to it by now.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shank Flanker
[B]I don't know if they just don't LIKE my HIDs or if they think my brights are on.

 

yup. I do agree this can be a problem on certain twisty hilly roads at night. the light doesn't dissipate at all, its just there or not. so you gotta really watch out for deer. hi beams, they don't offer too much - but I try to use them when I can.

 

Shank - my night vision is pretty good. It's those backroads where there are no streetlights to keep the area ahead of me lit well enough to keep a good speed. Yeah we all have to admit, the oncoming cars who flash their brights or the cars in front who pull over(experienced this a few times already ) because of the bounciness of our headlights can be annoying. However, the car wouldn't be the same without those Xenons bouncing thier beams up and down...kinda makes the car seem faster.

Schatten - I do agree. Maybe driving lights like the PIAA 1100X would help drastically? I need to do something...I'm always seeing things that aren't there in the distance because of the drastic light cutoff.

 

I totally agree.

Althought I LOVE the low-beam (where it is lit up), it's pretty scary going through a trough in a valley in the road, where you can't see ANYTHING above the line and the line moves closer and closer to the car.

They design these things for a very specific computer designed light pattern - it's too bad they don't have SOME amount of light straight ahead and above the main light pattern. (the downside would be that it would take away a bit from the main beam brightness simply because there are only so many photons to go around.)

 

The S2000's beam pattern looks great, but it's unfortunately not the best pattern out there. It is in fact quite difficult to see above it with such a sharp cutoff. There's an underpass near where I live and if you go into it at night, as you dip under the road and come back out, you can't see anything because the road curves up too fast and suddenly you can't see more than 10 feet in front of you. At 30 mph, that's dangerous.

It also doesn't have auto-leveling, which is too bad. I've have S2000 headlights either coming at me or sitting behind me and every little bump caused the light to come streaking into my eyes. I really wish that they had auto-leveling standard in the U.S. Also, a lot of S2000 drivers need to sit down and properly aim their lights. It's really quite annoying to a lot of other drivers out there.

 

I originally had the problem, but adjusted them up a bit and now I hardly ever have to use my brights. You don't want to adjust them too high or you will get bright lighted all the time. Just a few turns on the adjustment knob makes a huge difference in road light hiegth. Give it a try and let me know the outcome. If you don't know how to adjust the HID's, then do a search on HID Adjustment in this forum. Or go here. https://www.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.php?...=HID+Adjustment

 

gche - thanks for the insight