Hey Daniel, do you Canadians have the same Hi-Lo shutter sytem on the main beam upper lights like the Yanks do on their RT's, or do you have Low beam where they have Fog lights like all us Aussies & all EU Spec Spyders?? Cos if you've got the seperate Low beam lights like us, it's a common complaint & very likely the cause of at least some of the 'but I just didn't see anything there' accidents!! :shocked:
The Low beam lights being that much lower than shining pretty close directly at eye level for other drivers, like they do from the upper light units, the unavoidable bounces in the road surface have a much greater impact on how much the light beam they see bobs up & down & how it is apparently refracted thru the projector lens, much more so than it is on Hi-beam, and because the non F3 Spyders all use projector lenses to 'focus & intensify' the light beam, it makes this effect even worse!! :gaah: And btw, it
DOES happen during day time too, it's just that the ambient light on bright days is enough to 'wash out' most of the percieved colour change, but on cloudy days or in a bit of fog or other low light conditions, you end up with the 'can't see um!' or 'I'm being followed by a cop' issue!! :sour:
I dunno why BRP can't put a simple twin filament globe in the upper light housings to cater for both Lo & Hi beams, those lower housings are pretty useless for either seeing or being seen simply because other drivers have been trained to look higher than below knee level for other vehicle lights, and I'm sure that the low mounted Low beams contributes significantly to the way Spyders are often just not seen!! Drive with Hi-beam on during the day with a 35W incandescent globe in the upper light unit, and suddenly you will no longer be quite so invisible - but don't try that in the dark!! In the meantime, you either hafta put up with other road users thinking you are flashing them all the time, are a cop, or just not seeing you at all - or you can increase the pressure in the Air Bag to raise the tail of your RT a little & drop your Lo beam lights even more..... Oh, hang on, 2018 RT's no longer have that option, it's all automatic (probably so you'll never know when the compressor is NOT working any more!
) Ahhh well, I guess that there's
yet another reason for not being an unpaid Crash Test Dummy on a 2018 Spyder!
This BRP Mob seems to be their own worst enemy!! :dontknow:
