Adjusting lights to R/H road driving

You really need to replace the headlights.

If you have look at the beam when shining on a wall, you will see that the beam rises well above the cutoff point to the left of centre - no amount of adjusting can stop this shining into the eyes of drivers when you drive on the right-hand side of the road.

Hi Rumbler,

In the mid-80s I bought a BMW motorcycle on European delivery. It was an Australian ADR-spec model with a LH side-of-road headlamp. At delivery in Munich, it came with a triangular strip of black tape on the headlamp to mask-off the LH edge beam while driving in RH side-of-road countries.

From memory, the strip was as follows: looking at the lamp from in front, the strip was on the right side of the glass. Its lower edge was horizontal along the centre-line of the glass. The top edge started at a point at the centre of the glass and angled upwards to the RH edge of the glass, finishing about 30mm above the centre line. [If you can't work out what I'm on about, PM me and I'll send you a sketch.]

If you shine your lights at a wall from about 4 - 5 m away, you should see the top 'edge' of low beam is distinctly higher on the left side. If I've remembered correctly, putting a strip on both lights as above should make the beams 'flat' on top. No other re-alignment should be necessary.

If the French are still using those silly yellow headlamps and you travel in France at night, they'll still continually 'flash' you if you have white lights - because they can!

Hope this helps,
Ian

I assume you are talking about the Troopy? You have to replace the healight lens the relectors are built into the glass and while you may be able to purchase a relector/cover to try and refocus this distortion...I dont believe it would be a very effective light after that.

The troopy would be easy and Im sure you could purchase replacement insert over the net (USA would have 7in inserts for LHD coming outa their proverbial) and carry both with you. I would guess it would take about 30mins first time to swap and less each time after that!

Good luck sounds interesting!!

MAtt.

Rumbler,
Australian Design Rule states that the headlamps must dip to the left on low beam
because we drive on the LHS ,so you need the appropriate lamps for the other side of the road cheers mechpete

Don't bother.