hooleyboy

I come to realize my lowbeam headlights suck and and the highbeams are amazing. when im drive at night with now beams on i can't see more then 20 feet in front of me. and there is a "V" like shape at the peak of the low beams lights range. it seems as if they are pointed down to the ground to much. Mercedes tech say they are working fine but I dont think they have seen my lights at night. I was told these light auto adjust. Its light the lights are casting a shadow making a dip in the beams range right in the middle. any in other words there is like a dark triangle that dips in to the peak of my beam making it very hard to see at night with the lowbeams. does anyone have this problem with their car?

AcesHigh

Do you have the halogens or Bix's? I was going to get a C55 but I might wait for one with bixenons if what you say is true.

timberman

I can't say for certain but if the c55 is similar to the c32 then maybe your height sensor's busted

with the self adjusting headlights on the c32 when you start the car up and the lights come on, the beam will go up then down till it settles at the correct height .... does yours do this?

I had this problem with mine after I had my H&R springs fitted, the beam no longer did it's thing on start up and just pointed downwards, this was a real PITA and made it very difficult to see on country roads or any road with no street lighting.

I was told by my local shop that the springs had caused the height sensor to go out of it's effective range ( the sensor that sits on the front sway bar) and that they had to modify the bracket/adjuster or something like that to get it working again

works fine now

SFML320

i've been wondering about my lights ever since i last brought the C55 into service. the light were doing the "dance" when first turned on but after getting the car back, they were just pointed way down low to the ground.

when the got the car back after telling the SA about the "aim", the lights are pointed higher but no longer doing the "dance", aim up then down as before. i have a feeling the service guy just manually crank the adjuster until they were pointed high enough ahead of the road.

from what i've heard, the sensor is located at the back suspension?
https://mbworld.org/forums/c32-amg-c55-amg-w203/205244-what.html

lkfoster

There should be two sensors, one at each end, to tell the light control module what the level the car is sitting at. At least that's the way my wife's Audi is.

And on the Audi I can go into the controller module with a laptop connection and reset the zero point for the headlights, but nothing exists for MB at the retail level.

hooleyboy

Purple wire was loose so i put it back on.... not even sure what it does but it was loose light swere working without it

lkfoster

The easiest way to tell whether you have halogen or xenon lights is to look to see if you have headlight washers. Xenons have a headlight washer button next to the headlight switch and aliens on the front bumper. If you don't have both the lights are halogen, and if you do they're xenon.

calimax

Hey Mike, Yours are just the halogens. You should see how mine lite up the road at night with the Xenons! The little angled flares of the light beam are coming from the headlight bulb shield inside the headlamp. Stop by some time when I'm closing and I'll show ya.

hooleyboy

Mine are Xenons fo sho The low beems are bright just not in the right spots when i put the highbeams on it could light up a basball feild and are by far the best highbeams i've ever seem. Still wondering what the purble wire does. I got a tech looking at it twomorrow at 9am

mkonei

im sooo close to moving to glenndale...you been there for a long time?? its all the way on the left coat for me, but im needing a change. feedback please via pm....thnx

mike

tdavis7834

I have the same concern as hooleyboy wrt my headlights... Almost unsafe at night. I dropped my car off today for detailing at MBSD and asked about this issue. I'll let you know what the SA says when I pick it up and I'll check to see if I have the washer as well. I assumed I have the bixs b/c it's loaded w/ everything else. I just picked it up 2 weeks ago, 2005 C55 w/ 24kmi for $28,500 and VERY impressed!

calimax

my bad, I thought I didn't see projector headlamps on yours.

hooleyboy

did i miss your call today?

calimax

uh, not likely. I've been sleeping most of the day, trying to recover from partying hard, uhg up for 28 hours straight. Felt like a vampire this morning coming home damn sun light.

hooleyboy

Thought i got a call from your number today, anyway when you working next i'll stop in. Got to get some things anyway.

calimax

I'll be there from 2-close.