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Thu 14 Apr 22 19:59

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - FuzzyDuck

I'm currently running a 218i MSport convertible, the headlights are LED.

Looking at the front of the car, it has a what looks like a conventional twin headlight arrangement. Turning on the main beam the outer pair of lenses illuminate. However when putting on the high beams, instead of the inner pair of lenses being used, the high beam uses the outer pair of lenses too. So it appears that the inner pair of lenses have no actual function, except to house daylight running lights out the outside.

This seems a bit odd, why wouldn't the designers use separate lenses for the main and high beams?

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Thu 14 Apr 22 21:05

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - VxFan

Main & high beam mean the same thing to me.

Do you mean dip/low beam and main/high beam?

Last edited by: VxFan on Thu 14 Apr 22 at 21:07

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Thu 14 Apr 22 21:19

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Zero

Its the same on my G31. When you have the active headlight feature (seeing round corners etc) they are utilised.

Basically its just to maintain the BMW twin light look.

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Thu 14 Apr 22 21:25

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Runfer D'Hills

Yeah, they all kind of just work on Mercs mind.
Just sayin’
;-))

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Thu 14 Apr 22 21:29

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Zero

And they kinda work on the BMW, rather well actually, not that you would notice being that far behind......

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Thu 14 Apr 22 21:45

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Runfer D'Hills

…with a clean licence…
;-)

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Thu 14 Apr 22 22:00

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Zero

3 points is a badge of honour. None of this noncy 33 in a 30 either

Last edited by: Zero on Thu 14 Apr 22 at 22:01

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Thu 14 Apr 22 22:22

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Duncan

>> …with a clean licence…
>> ;-)
>>

And without a bus dangling on the front.

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Fri 15 Apr 22 22:37

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - FuzzyDuck

>> Main & high beam mean the same thing to me.
>>
>> Do you mean dip/low beam and main/high beam?
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Sorry yes, dipped and high beam

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Sat 16 Apr 22 09:09

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - carmalade

Led matrix headlights, more info here . www.hella.com/hella-com/en/Headlamps-620.html

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Sun 17 Apr 22 22:03

BMW - BMW 2 series headlight oddity - Dave_

Yes, our 2015 X3 was the same. My 2016 Octavia has large rectangular light clusters with a DRL LED strip along the lower edge, but all the headlight functions are provided by the outer circular light unit; the remaining inner area (where one would expect spotlights to be) is unused.

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