Headlights? Are they led or xenon? 2017 Facelift

[maddog1982]

The car is a facelift 2017 with LED headlights so I'm a little confused! I enter my reg and it's offering me d1s xenon bulbs? I'd like a bit more light on dipped, I've adjusted them up a touch but I still feel on dipped the light isn't bright enough. The main beam is amazing!! I upgraded my previous car to nightbraker d3s and they were incredible so if this is an option I would like to do the same. So, can anyone clarify if the headlights are xenon D1S or led?

 

[MajorTom]

You can easily tell by just looking at the lights. If they are round inside it's the xenons and if they have flat rectangular elements and it says something like Jaguar LED Technology at the top inside the lights it's the LEDs. This is what my LEDs look like.

 

[Lunar]

You can’t beat Nightbreaker’s for xenons - a really good upgrade

 

[maddog1982]

You can easily tell by just looking at the lights. If they are round inside it's the xenons and if they have flat rectangular elements and it says something like Jaguar LED Technology at the top inside the lights it's the LEDs. This is what my LEDs look like.

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Thans, the lights say LED on the case. My confusion is when I enter the reg or vehicle type into say halfords or any other website and it offers me d1s bulbs?! Is there a way to upgrade the LEDS?

 

[MajorTom]

Crappy data somewhere obviously then. I haven't heard of any way to upgrade the LEDs, other than adjusting them up like you did.

By the way keep an eye on the intensity of the DRL strip along the edge of the lights. In loads of MY18 cars the DRL on the nearside gets weaker than on the offside and the only solution seems to be to replace the whole light unit costing an arm and a leg.

 

[scm]

By the way keep an eye on the intensity of the DRL strip along the edge of the lights. In loads of MY18 cars the DRL on the nearside gets weaker than on the offside ....

By "nearside" and "offside" do you mean left or right, and does it depend on which side the driver sits?

 

[MajorTom]

By the way keep an eye on the intensity of the DRL strip along the edge of the lights. In loads of MY18 cars the DRL on the nearside gets weaker than on the offside ....

By "nearside" and "offside" do you mean left or right, and does it depend on which side the driver sits?

I'm trying to stick to UK terminology on here so I mean the light on the left side if you sit in the car.

 

[scm]

That's interesting, I wonder why the left side is more failure prone than the right.

 

[MajorTom]

That's interesting, I wonder why the left side is more failure prone than the right.

Yeah, it's really odd. I've seen loads of reports about this, all MY18 cars and only the left side. I'm suspecting a manufacturing fault in a batch of some component only used on the left side. It's only the strip that's used for the DRL and indicator so the indicator light also gets weaker. The dipped/main beam seems unaffected.

 

[ZeusHavok]

It's because the left side of the car gets banged about more due to drains, pot holes and the like. I bet if you did a consensus on left hand drive cars it'd be the right light with the higher failure.

Also reason Halfords think it's Xenon is due to Jag releasing MY17 cars with Xenons until March 17? I think. I have a MY17 car with Xenons, build month was Nov 16

 

[scm]

I bet if you did a consensus on left hand drive cars it'd be the right light with the higher failure.

Not according to Major Tom!

 

[MajorTom]

It's because the left side of the car gets banged about more due to drains, pot holes and the like. I bet if you did a consensus on left hand drive cars it'd be the right light with the higher failure.

That's actually a good theory but most if not all cases I've seen reported have been LHD cars like mine and mine is driven on super smooth roads without drains and potholes 95% of the time.

Mine is fortunately just slightly affected by this, but come to think of it, it started some time after a weekend of banging about on English B roads.