Adjusting 2014 volvo headlamps

I did this, more or less. Occasionally I get flashed at. I don't care. When people flash at me with my low beams on I give them a flash with my high beams and they figure it out. Volvo headlights are downright unsafe without being reaimed. Kinda stuns me from a company that has always had such a reputation for safe vehicles all over the world.

 

Maybe getting them adjusted by the dealer using the method they use would be a good idea instead of messing with it and thinking you got it right.

 

No I don't drive them as the norm, but I have driven a couple before I retired and they were OK - the lights if they are projection lights need to be properly adjusted not to blind people.

Your description on how to adjust them isn't the problem, it is the idea to adjust them up till someone complains means to me you don't care about the safety of others. I am the one who has to drive 100 miles in the dark almost every day and I get to see these idiot drivers/owners who blind people and act like they need to see a mile down the road for their own safety.

 

Ridgeline, I generally dig your advice, but you obviously haven't driven a Volvo. The headlights are a problem. We're trying to gather ideas on how to fix the problem. Blinding people is not the idea but neither is driving blind yourself.

 

Obviously I am not trying to be an ****** about it, the type of truck doesn't matter.

The lights are designed to a specific set of specs, the specs are created not to have a condition where it is bad for others. All manufacturers of cars and trucks follow those specs. There is one exception to this, that is ford who seems to ignore most of the specs, the lighting on any ford vehicle made in the last ten years sucks, it has too much light scatter and the side lighting on their passenger cares from the headlights is blinding when passing or being passed. The worst right now are ford pickups with the lower driving lights, talk about a **************** of blinding light, they should just put cheap Chinese super bright lightbars on the pickups and wire them to always be on.

I have driven volvos, not much but a few thousand miles altogether, both with conventional lights and projection lights, those i sold and will have two more by the end of July as part of a ten truck purchase, but I've driven almost every truck out there and they are all the same when it comes to lighting, they all suck if they are out of proper adjustment.

My point is this, there is a means to properly adjust the lights, once they are adjusted right, then if the driver is still having problems, they need to get their eyes checked. the ops method is close to the dealer method, no complaint about that but it is the idea of moving them up until someone complains.

 

Have a 2014 670 and man I have about wrecked a few times in the mountains. Low beams on dark roads make it impossible to see. Let alone when someone with over powering lights drives by. I had to buy LED headlights to fill safe driving at night. Should had been a lawsuit against Volvo for these lights. Reminds me of the early 60 and 70’s lights.