Litronic (Xenon) beam effectiveness...

[Boxtaboy]

Originally Posted by Smallblock454

Hello,

if you're Litronics are not self adjusting, they don't work correctly. So hahaha - funny you wonder why your headlights are bad.

I've replaced all bulbs and the D2S in my stock OEM Litronics lately. And yes, that makes a difference. I did use good quality bulbs from Osram. But nothing fancy.

Don't compare modern LED OEM headlamp systems like 2017 Audis and Mercedes have with a 15 year old Porsche Litronic. The new ones are better. But i don't like them, because they tend to glare me when other cars have them and i drive at night.

Regards, Markus

They are working correctly. They don't have the feature of self leveling because I chose not to wire in the electronics, but they still are set to whatever beam aim I set it at, and don't move from that height, so it just doesn't dip up when I go downhill or dip down a little when I go uphill, which is the same as what the OEM xenons do in my previous FX35. Self leveling is just an additional nice feature of the OEM lights, but not absolutely necessary and I still can see a long way with the Litronics. They also don't tilt upwards a bit when I turn on the highbeams, but I don't think that is necessary either because the halogen high beams alone are just fine. The only thing is that the newer Xenons today are much brighter and more focused than what I see in the Litronics and in our 05 FX35.