Author Topic: Europe Bound (Read 2299 times)

3reggy · « **on:** May 12, 2017, 06:57:34 PM »

Any one know if the headlights on the Jazz 2014 SI can just be switched to left hand for driving in France ?
Cheers guys
John

trebor1652 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 12, 2017, 07:03:28 PM »

I believe you can still buy beam deflectors from the likes of Halfords.
They stick to the headlight glass and bend the beam in the other direction.

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guest6436 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 13, 2017, 02:09:59 AM »

Do NOT stick them on! My dad stuck them on and those things destroyed and melted the headlamps..
Btw its not even a legal requirement - just a way for them to make money on the ferry.

JohnAlways · « **Reply #3 on:** May 15, 2017, 01:25:19 PM »

It IS a legal requirement for France to stop the dazzle to oncoming drivers. The beam deflectors I get from Halfords are actually just a means of blanking off the part of the beam that goes to the nearside and up the bank in the UK. I expect you've all come across a car with headlights on parked on the side of the road you are driving on facing you.

http://www.drive-france.com/checklist/

Also technically the GB with the stars on the number plate does not mean you don't have to have a GB sticker as technically it's not of the approved size but the rest of europe does it here so why not us there. I use a magnetic one on mine as well as I don't like being pulled over by Gendarmes waving guns around! (That was just a roadside check on the way to Toulouse)!

longlegpete · « **Reply #4 on:** May 18, 2017, 06:39:52 PM »

We have a Jazz that stays in europe for 8 months of the year and we just use stick on deflectors, the modern one's have a reflective strip to help not burn the lens, we just leave them on all the time regardless of which side we are driving now, never been a problem, there is no way of changing the beam by any other means