![]() The boxer engine, the wagon-ness, symmetrical awd, safety tech, the turbo, enclosed eyesight cameras, cooled seats and wireless android auto, regular gas, java brown leather seats at this price point are all the main selling points. Bottom line is the LED headlights on both of our Subarus are the best headlights we have ever had, and we appreciate Subaru doing that to meet the IIHS Top Safety Pick+ requirement.Subaru's design philosophy and choices have always jived with my Mechanical Engineering sensibilities. Try the high beam, and as suggested if your low beam is too low, adjust it a little higher. Looking at some of the photos posted above in this thread, they appear to be low beam photos. As to high versus low beam, same as our Outback with excellent visibility and performance, the top part of the beam that cuts off angles down from the vehicle no one ever flashes, no problems with visibility. Our 23 Ascent has the SRH which is fabulous, admittedly a little freaky but it works. It's not that hard to do, on a level road the top part of the beam where it cuts off should be angling down from the vehicle. I lowered them myself and now they are perfect: auto high beam works great, vision is fabulous and no one ever flashes. My early build 20 Outback was one of many with the lights too high from the factory. View attachment 558551 View attachment 558550 Frankly I've been avoiding driving it at night because it's stressful =( Tint film? For now, the only thing I can figure out is to lower the beams a tiny bit so I'm not constantly blinding oncoming traffic and just use my high beams at all other times. If anyone has a creative solution that'd be great. Especially in the snow, it's like I'm being blinded by my own lights, in the subaru.Īnyhow there's my rant. And, I'm not in complete darkness beyond the hard edge of the light. Obviously, the subaru lights are much brighter, but that's kind of the problem! I can actually see significantly further down road vision in the jetta, and higher up too, (it's even better than the photo shows because your eyes adjust). It's a flat area going into a hill.īefore someone says that my lights are set too low, at this height I'm constantly having people flashing their brights at me, because my lights are shining in their eyes. Both "low" beams, Same location, Same camera settings (ISO 1600 f2.8 sec.) I had to calibrate the camera off the subaru, because otherwise the photo was completely blown out. The first (headlights.jpg) is the '23 outback (premium 2.5l if that matters), 2nd (headlights-2) is my wife's '06 VW Jetta. So, yeah, they're more concerned with meeting specifications than what an actual human driving the car can see. I wish I had better news for you, but I appreciate your time. I will share your comments with the designers of the vehicle. I wish we were able to change it up for you. "I am sorry for the bad experience with your lights.Īs the retailer stated these features are the "new normal" for all vehicle brands. Here's the reply I got from subaru customer service: There's no spec for uniformity so having odd artifacts don't count against headlight ratings. Subaru was down-rated for not enough reach so the latest generation of headlights are redesigned to be even brighter below the cutoff and darker above it. It used to be that cutoffs were much more gradual and human perception worked better, but with a gradual cutoff then the distance spec can't be met. Eyes adjust pretty well to uniform or gradual lighting but similar to using a flashlight, if one area is brightly lit, the eyes are attracted to the light and eyes will accommodate the brightness, resulting in low perception of the darker areas. What ends up happening is that in order to satisfy rating specs, headlights are being redesigned to match, even if human perception creates issues where there's a huge contrast between super bright below the cutoff and pitch black above it. Instead the IIHS and other rating organizations expect a certain amount of light in some areas and not too much light in others. I think part of the problem with modern headlights is that human perception isn't taken into account.
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