03-27-2011, 09:32 PM | #1 |
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Do You Have Adaptive Headlights ?
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I have a Canadian spec'ed 35i, just wondering if you guys have Adaptive Headlights ? The X1 seem to get it with the Xenon option (which the 35i already has...) By "Adaptive Lights" I mean BOTH the right-left auto-swivel with the steering wheel, and the auto-leveling of the light (when you're driving uphill or downhill)... Thanks ! |
03-27-2011, 11:15 PM | #3 |
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Is the left-right motion supposed to be really evident ? I think that at 0 mph it doesn't work, but at low speed I should see the difference ? Because I definitively can't...
Other Canadian buyers can confirm that, once again, we get a cheaped-out US car for a higher price tag ? |
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03-28-2011, 12:59 AM | #4 |
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I have it on my 28i and had it on my previous 06 X3. Definitely cool coming around a corner and watching the lights give you vision into the path of where you are *going* vs where the front of your car is pointed. I think it gives you an extra 20-30 degrees to the left and right depending on how sharp you have the wheel turned. Not a huge thing but nice nonetheless
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03-28-2011, 02:02 AM | #5 | |
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That said, I double-checked the UK website and it lists "automatic headlight range control" under both xenons and under adaptive headlghts. Go figure.
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03-28-2011, 04:37 AM | #6 |
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Should be very noticeable. For mine, driving something like a tightly curved on-ramp is a place where I can see the headlights aimed into the curve instead of straight ahead at the guardrail. That said, it's something that's very natural, so I don't think it jumps out at you.
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03-28-2011, 05:41 AM | #7 |
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I am still waiting for my X3, but I have it on my 335. I can notice it on the road when I'm driving, but it is not dramatic (10-15 degrees off center). I can also tell if they are active when I drive up to my garage door at night and turn the steering wheel left and right. The headlights don't move much, but they do move a little, almost twitching with the steering wheel movements.
Note that the headlight switch needs to be in the On(A) position for them to work. They don't swivel left-right if the switch is just in regular On position. They will always auto-level. It's a law in Europe for Xenons to do this, I believe. |
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03-28-2011, 01:44 PM | #10 |
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My understanding is also that the Canadian version of the X3 does not get the adaptive headlights. As well, we do not get the headlight washers...
I was looking for this feature but I guess I'll have to wait for it to be in my next car. I do not really know why this is not present. |
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It isn't included in the cold weather pkg? |
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03-28-2011, 01:49 PM | #12 |
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We get the heated front seats in the basic configuration; there is no way to add the back heated seats with a package. There is a "custom built" option that can provide for this but otherwise no dice. Similarly, no headlight washers are included in any package I could see. Maybe this will change in April, but when I ordered in November I had no luck.
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03-28-2011, 02:10 PM | #13 |
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I wouldn't worry about it too much, my experience with headlight washers is that they really don't work very well. I have had them on at least two recent BMWs and don't really care if I have them or not.
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03-28-2011, 05:17 PM | #14 | |
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For the majority of the year, the washer fluid just messes up your freshly washed car because it sprays with such force that it gets all over the hood. |
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03-29-2011, 12:28 PM | #15 |
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Well, tried out last night, and it seems that the Canadian X3 doesn't get Adaptive Headlights !!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, fellow Canadian owners, but as always, we're not on par with the US even though all the cars come from Spartanburg... |
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03-29-2011, 12:53 PM | #16 |
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It's just another way BMW Canada gets to make more profit margin on our cars, like yourself I ordered the M Sport and paid a good amount of money and the amount of items that BMW Canada removes from our cars compared to the US is absurd, what Canadain in their right mind would remove heated rear seats from one of the coldest modernized countries in the world and think we wouldn't notice.
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03-29-2011, 02:05 PM | #17 |
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Headlight washers come as standard with xenons in the UK. You need to have words with BMW Canada
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03-29-2011, 07:45 PM | #18 |
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Headlight washers come standard here in Australia too, its a stupid "legal" requirement here that all cars with Xenon's must have washers. Personally I find them annoying, especially those times you only want to wash your windscreen and not get water splash up on your bonnet from the headlight washers.
Adaptive headlights are an option (0524) which can be added to the Xenon option (0522). Headlight washers are option (0502) but must be added when choosing Xenons. Adaptive headlights should be very obvious, I had them on my previous X3 and you can have the car stationary and move the lights from left to right. Auto levelling is a standard feature of all Xenons. |
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Not on my 35i I think...but I think we have the auto-leveling headlight, just don't know why doesn't have the right-left auto-swivel with the steering wheel function...
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