Need help with light spec

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Wilpert
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Post by Wilpert »

Guy wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 10:08 pm From my 2014 brochure … (let me know if you want copies of any other 'option' definitions)

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Perfect so it’s the bi xenon with pdls

Next question are these a bit less effective than the led’s
Ie what is the next light upgrade than you can choose other than the pdls +

What is standard on the macan ie sans upgrade. ?

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There's a few threads that mention the LEDs where people have made subjective comparisons and prefer LEDs. At the time that ours were delivered (Sep 15), LED lights were not available as an option. I have not tried LEDs, but am more than happy with the Bi-Xenons for the limited amount of night driving that I do.

The Macan's standards lights are halogen, and without headlamp washing. These are reputed to be quite poor in performance.
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Wilpert

The short answer is Yes.

The difference between xenons and LEDs is the same as between halogen and xenons.

I have owned Macans with xenons and my cutrrent Macan has LEDs, they are superb, will light up the next county.

Its not that xenons are poor, they are very good in themselves and for the vast majority they will be perfect, for an oldie like me who does not have the night vision capabilities that I used to have LEDs make a vast difference.

Standard on a base Macan is halogen, xenons came with PDLS and LEDs have PDLS+ which adds extra look left and look right lights which come on at junctions.

Macans with Halogens are few and far between and we did have one member here who ignored advice that xenons were a must have, only to find out to their cost just how poor the standard Halogens were, their Macan did not last long.
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Post by Bogus »

Xenons are amazing and I have had on my last 4 cars but LED are in a different league. I have had LEDs with PDLS on ny Panamera and now the Macan. Boy what a difference they make to night driving.. I am just sharing my experience even though it might not be relevent to the original question.


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Having had LEDs on the Macan it was the first option I ticked on the 911. Completely transformed night driving for me despite Xenons being very good LEDs are, as has been mentioned, in a different league all together
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Paul wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 9:57 pm Could be headlamp wash (definitely not standard with halogens, but mandatory with xenons)
The rules talk about being washers (and self levelling) being mandatory with luminous flux of 2,000 lumens or higher - when I was looking beginning of 2017 BMW seemed able to sell a car with xenons but no washers so I assume they have lower light output
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Post by bennachie »

Yep. Cayman/Boxster S has xenon headlights without washers as they are 'low power'
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