02-07-2022, 03:19 AM | #67 |
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i notice people are comparing the visibility pack to the pano roof for value. I wonder how many of those making that comparison have both? I do, and if I had to drop one of the options it would be the roof. The visibility pack wins hands down.
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02-07-2022, 03:36 AM | #68 |
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I drive quite a lot on unlit country roads and the laser lights are brilliant. If I lived in a town I wouldn't bother though as they only really come alive in the country roads.
My wife has a mini JCW with Matrix led headlights. When I had my F31 BMW I found these matrix headlights on the mini to be noticeably better, Not completely groundbreaking but noticeable. The lighting ahead was just clearer somehow, almost like HD to non HD tv is how I describe it. I then got the laser lights and they are a little better than the Matrix, less of a difference than the F31 to the mini but again, noticeable. They seem to punch a bit further ahead. Both react to oncoming cars very quickly. I get flashed occasionally, usually when going uphill and someone towards coming down. I do notice that my beam isn't lighting up their cabin though. I just think they are brighter than what people are used to. |
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02-07-2022, 03:42 AM | #69 |
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100% visibility pack, last week I had no panoramic roof or visibility pack, thought when ordering my new car pano was more important than the visibility pack, decided to choose both on the DRL look alone, next time the visibility will be my first choice, adaptive leds I thought were very good, good enough but lasers take it for me to another level, in town not anything in it at all but on a unlit country road, night and day
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02-07-2022, 03:48 AM | #70 |
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My wife's X5 had Laser lights, I only realised after 5 months when I saw they had 'Laser' written on them and not 'LED'...
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02-07-2022, 03:54 AM | #71 |
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If you drive on a unlit road in my car you couldn't miss them dance around, very noticeable, not sure how you could miss it, if driven only in town or cities then you could.
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02-07-2022, 04:17 AM | #72 |
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Probably how I missed it then, tend not to drive around town or where we live with high beams on...
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02-07-2022, 04:23 AM | #73 |
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Between leds and lasers in well lit area, I have only noticed it suddenly light a sign up for everyone, driving on A ot B road that's unlit, doing its thing is smile inducing for me and would warrant a trip to the opticians if you couldn’t see it.
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02-07-2022, 04:26 AM | #74 |
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As per my previous, I probably never drove it somewhere it needed the high beams on, maybe I'm not the only one who needs a trip to the opticians...
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02-07-2022, 04:49 AM | #75 |
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Yeah between adaptive and lasers in a city or town setting, nothing in it however on a nice unlit road could be it shouldn't be so obvious as it is, find out soon enough if I start getting flashed all the time...
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Yeah I've got all options and would drop the Pano if I had to, probably above anything else but especially over Vis. On a G20 it doesn't even open out that far back.
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I haven’t read the article but the standard adaptive LEDs are not inadequate in my opinion, but they’re nothing spectacular. Way better than halogen obviously but my A6 was better for a more like on like comparison.
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I think the standard LEDs are very good. Overtaking a car with halogens on an unlit dual carriageway reveals just how good they are, both in terms of colour and just how far they illuminate the road.
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02-07-2022, 07:59 PM | #80 |
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Strictly speaking, you don’t have a panoramic sunroof, you have a sunroof, which are a bit tiny compared to the pano sunroofs in the g21.
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02-08-2022, 03:44 AM | #81 |
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I have both and, as most of my driving is in daylight, for me the improved ambience afforded by the panoramic roof is a benefit much more of the time than than the improved lighting offered by the visibility pack. So while I'm happy to have both I'd miss the panoramic roof more and hence if I had to sacrifice one or the other the visibility pack would go.
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If you didn't realise you had them (or your mrs) then there's every chance you didn't have them activated, so never saw the effect. They don't work when manually putting the lights into full beam, you have to put the lights into Auto mode for them to work and only above 37mph (3 series anyway).
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Can you over-ride the 37mph manually and still keep the selective beam function operational?
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Don't think there's anyway of manually overriding this adaptive function though. You can of course as has been said manually operate the main beams 'the old fashioned way' via the left hand column stalk but that would simply switch from dipped beams to main beams in one set configuration. |
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If I'm honest I've never really understood why the laser lights don't work below 37mph with HBA activated but I'm sure there's a reason! |
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Ihaven't got HBA nor Laser. I don't particularly like the former, and while I'm sure the latter is brilliant, what I have (standard adaptive LED) is just fine. Some might find this useful: https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/03/15/g...ies-explained/
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The BMW information about laser lights states..."High beam headlight with LED technology and laser module". |
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