News:

The site has been updated to the latest version of SMF.

Main Menu
Welcome to Honda Varadero UK Forum. Please login or sign up.

25/10/25 - 20:16:37

Login with username, password and session length

Shoutbox

S Barker

2024-01-06, 15:48:05
New SMF Version

Recent

Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 91,105
  • Total Topics: 11,072
  • Online today: 206
  • Online ever: 1,296
  • ( 22/01/20 - 17:41:39)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 151
Total: 151

151 Guests, 0 Users

Baby Varadero 125 V4 - Poor lights, Help?

Started by dreamscape, 18/10/14 - 20:24:40

Previous topic - Next topic

dreamscape

Hello all

My V4 has really, really poor lights.

When i bought it earlier in the year it had LED bulbs in which were OK for summer and looked really nice. They were however USELESS in the wet for some reason. and also dry or wet the dripped beam seemed non existant. I left them all summer though as they were rarely used at night...

Now though since its raining more and getting dark earlier i decided i wanted to swap them out for some proper halogen bulbs. I've done this recently and waited for night time to test. Went out and first time the beam even on low beam seemed to be up in the air... Road signs were highly illuminated etc so yea... i presumed it was WAY off... so the next day i went to a local bike garage/MOT place to see if they could use there machine to line up the dip beam.

My buddy there (the mechanic) complained of not being able to find "the line" on the dip beam and did the best he could. Went out tonight and now it's even worse pointing quite far down onto the road and also pointing way too far left. I took some pictures for you guys to have a look at as to me the light projected looks wrong? (i'm no pro at this stuff).

Dip beam:



High beam:



Here's also a rough idea of how the light looks on the road, again, excuse the poor picture.



I hope that kinda makes sense? Ultimately the light is too far left and if you are taking a right turn on a country road then the road ahead even at close range is pitch black... Really dangerous...

How can i fix this? Is my headlight knackered? Really confused whats actually wrong at this point.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Whitewidow

Ok got it...... Your best option is to fit a couple of VISIONX SOLSTICE led's ?97 each from www.adventure-spec.com look on their site links to youtube for same. Call em speak to Dave really helpful.
You will be impressed with the amount of light given. Good Luck.
"One has to leave the world to discover it "

2011 xl 1000

Shasta White !