Adjusting Front LED's

[bluesatin]

Does anyone know how to adjust the front LED on the V10. The lighting is poor for such a high performance car and I want to see if changing the angle of the lights slightly may give me a few more feet of viewable light.

Thanks

[London Lad]

Where are you located?

[R8 England]

Very odd.

I find mine very bright indeed......

You cannot change the angle, as you risk dazzling other drivers.

Take it to a garage and see if it correctly adjusted.

[bluesatin]

Based in Maidenhead. Local Audi is shockingly bad so not sure where to take the car. I bought it from Audi Hereford (a tank of fuel to get their and back!)

[London Lad]

I have sent you a PM but its for USA. Ignore it and I'll send you another in a few mins

[MacR8A5]

Based in Maidenhead. Local Audi is shockingly bad so not sure where to take the car. I bought it from Audi Hereford (a tank of fuel to get their and back!)

Off topic I know but Audi Slough is also dreadful!
I go to Audi Worcester to buy my cars, great sales guy there. Again a tank of fuel to get there and back
What is it with Audi garages?!

[bluesatin]

London Lad- I have not recieved any mail. MacR8A5- Slough is the shocking garage i refered too. Hereford has been very good so far and will pick up the car on covered trailer for service.

[KfabR8]

Open the hood and look just behind the light assemblies. There are two open holes on each side of the car, one being quite near the outer hood latches, the other closer to the trunk area.

The adjustment screws are in these two open holes. I can't recall which one moves the lights up/down and which one does left/right.

You'll need a longer large phillips screw driver.

When doing your adjustment, set the car on a level surface and point the lights at something like a garage door or a brick wall; something with horizontal lines in it's surface. The lines will give you a better reference for adjusting.

On the R8, there is no electronic adjusting of the lights (such as w/a 2003 RS6, where you set the lights and then report back to the computer what you've done.). They are a simple, straight forward turn to adjust system.

I would assume that this procedure is similar for the LED setup too, as the housing assembly for the LED lamps would appear to be the same as the HID setup found on the R8. (OEMplus sells LED upgrades for us lowly HID users [from what I've seen the HID give better light], and it's a bolt in setup, thus my assumption.)

Side note to this topic: High/low may be activated in the same manner in both the HID and LED systems: The high/low beam setup in the HID is not two separate lamps, but one lamp with, of all things, a small stainless steel plate that's set up as a flap.

Low beams: The flap is in the down position, eliminating half of the light's output into the lens (the large round magnifying glass looking lens you see from the outside of the lamp ass'y). Hit the high beams and the little flap rotates up and out of the way via a solenoid, allowing all the light to pass through the lens. Simple, yet effective.

[London Lad]

London Lad- I have not recieved any mail.

I have sent you 2 private messages. Maybe you low post count means you cant see them yet ?

They are really just the same instructions as KfabR8 has given you plus diagrams. Let me know if you still need them once your PMs are working.

[MacR8A5]

London Lad- I have not recieved any mail. MacR8A5- Slough is the shocking garage i refered too. Hereford has been very good so far and will pick up the car on covered trailer for service.

Bluesatin - Cool way to have the car serviced!
Is this something that all Audi garages should / would do for R8?