I am taking my Fiesta to France shortly. I won't be driving at night so don't see the point of stick on deflectors. Besides, the pattern looks pretty flat across the width, without much of a kick on the left. (Shaping was much more noticeable in lights of 20-30 years ago.) Setting the dashboard height control down ought to be adequate if lights are needed in daytime.

Anyway, it is variously said that projector lamps have a switch in the lamp assembly to do side/side adjustment. So if available, might as well do it properly. No mention is made in the Haynes manual. Can anybody advise definitively whether or not there is such an adjuster on the Fiesta (Zetec 2011)  and what it looks like so I could recognise it.

Strangely enough, I had the pleasure of my Dads new XC90 at the weekend and there's a button in the cabin for this function.

 

I've done a Google and it seems it is not possible, but it does no harm to ask the local Ford dealer, or email Ford customer services.  Next week I'm driving down to Eurodisney (I've got to challenge Gaston) and I'll be using beam deflectors on our 17 plate Sportage.  They're only £3 and when you're done they easily peel off a warm headlight.

I noticed on the ferry that most people didn't bother fitting deflectors so I didn't stand out from the crowd. Then there was the other faction where some cars had been fitted with deflectors unnecessarily because the owners had not read the car's manual.

 

I think that you will find that in France headlight converters are a legal requirement.

Just now, karl46 said:

I think that you will find that in France headlight converters are a legal requirement.

Yeah 

 

6 hours ago, karl46 said:

I think that you will find that in France headlight converters are a legal requirement.

I doubt the law is couched in those terms. If it was a requirement it would have to quote a recognised standard and these things would have to be marked to show they meet it.

I suggest the law would be about dazzle and sticky on bits are promoted as a solution for lights that don't have adjustment. I happy to make fun of people that don't RTFM before sticking them on. Anyway, I passed a number of cops ready to go on motorbikes without them appearing to be bothered.

In Eurodisney ATM.  Brit from a few cabins up was stopped and given a  snice fine for not having any. He's a BMW driver so I thought it was funny.

 

The fine is about 100 times the cost of the deflectors, so risking it is pretty daft.