Hi, folks. First post and thank you for your help.
I have a new MDX on order. I placed it knowing the headlights were inadequate for sharp turns and country driving and that I'll need to add something. I wonder whether any of you found a way to address the shortcomings.
There are two problems, both caused by what I think is poorly aimed light from the headlights on the MDX and almost every other car. Neither low nor high beams throw light sharply out to the sides for making a low speed sharp turn; and the high beams throw very little light to the sides, nor very far up and down. They need to have more flood in their spot light high beams. I have tested the MDX in a dark parking lot because I am tired of buying cars with lousy lights and only bought it when I thought I'd found a solution in add on lights. I'm writing you because you may have found a better one.
Low speed problem: Turning the steering wheel one turn puts the car on a path that is totally unlighted by the car, low beams or high. Higher speed problem: The lack of wider and higher lighting from the high beams makes it almost impossible to drive a curvy, hilly road or to see deer by the sides. Sometimes I have to slow down to 10mph if a road makes a very sharp turn and begins to climb at the same time because the road moves out of the lighted area completely, and I have to drive 35mph or slower at night because the deer hide in the unlighted areas beside the high beams, which seem to be trying to shine eight miles down the road in a little dot. The sharply curving and climbing road is above the upper cutoff of the low beams while the high beams are brightly lighting the dirt bank straight ahead, closing down my pupils and making the road completely disappear. Headlights that turn do not help because the road is still above them. It's like a rifle sight; a flat base (of low beams) with a dot on top. Anything above the base and to the sides of the dot remains unlighted. You may not have noticed this problem if you usually drive streets with lights or are near cars. I drive roads that are really dark. Why all auto makers but BMW ignore these problems I do not know. I can tell you that BMW HIDs with cornering lights are fabulous. Light goes everywhere, and when you turn sharply, on comes another light. Fabulous! I just don't want another BMW, I want an MDX!
For those of you who have installed the Acura fog lights and/or separate driving lights on your 2014 MDX, do the fog lights throw a lot of light to the sides? Have you found auxiliary lighting that fixes the dispersion problem?
I have a new MDX on order. I placed it knowing the headlights were inadequate for sharp turns and country driving and that I'll need to add something. I wonder whether any of you found a way to address the shortcomings.
There are two problems, both caused by what I think is poorly aimed light from the headlights on the MDX and almost every other car. Neither low nor high beams throw light sharply out to the sides for making a low speed sharp turn; and the high beams throw very little light to the sides, nor very far up and down. They need to have more flood in their spot light high beams. I have tested the MDX in a dark parking lot because I am tired of buying cars with lousy lights and only bought it when I thought I'd found a solution in add on lights. I'm writing you because you may have found a better one.
Low speed problem: Turning the steering wheel one turn puts the car on a path that is totally unlighted by the car, low beams or high. Higher speed problem: The lack of wider and higher lighting from the high beams makes it almost impossible to drive a curvy, hilly road or to see deer by the sides. Sometimes I have to slow down to 10mph if a road makes a very sharp turn and begins to climb at the same time because the road moves out of the lighted area completely, and I have to drive 35mph or slower at night because the deer hide in the unlighted areas beside the high beams, which seem to be trying to shine eight miles down the road in a little dot. The sharply curving and climbing road is above the upper cutoff of the low beams while the high beams are brightly lighting the dirt bank straight ahead, closing down my pupils and making the road completely disappear. Headlights that turn do not help because the road is still above them. It's like a rifle sight; a flat base (of low beams) with a dot on top. Anything above the base and to the sides of the dot remains unlighted. You may not have noticed this problem if you usually drive streets with lights or are near cars. I drive roads that are really dark. Why all auto makers but BMW ignore these problems I do not know. I can tell you that BMW HIDs with cornering lights are fabulous. Light goes everywhere, and when you turn sharply, on comes another light. Fabulous! I just don't want another BMW, I want an MDX!
For those of you who have installed the Acura fog lights and/or separate driving lights on your 2014 MDX, do the fog lights throw a lot of light to the sides? Have you found auxiliary lighting that fixes the dispersion problem?