11-30-2018, 12:31 PM | #1 |
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BMW is no longer including headlight washers?
I noticed that my G01 doesn’t have headlight washers, or the option, and looking at all the pictures of the new X5, none of those have headlight washers either. Has BMW dropped them from the lineup?
Edit - I’ve just looked at some pictures of the current 5 series, and they don’t have them either. So why has BMW dropped headlight wash from all their cars? |
11-30-2018, 01:03 PM | #2 |
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I dont miss that feature smh.
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11-30-2018, 01:35 PM | #4 |
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because they are ugly and dumb and im so glad my car was optioned wihtout them!
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12-03-2018, 04:35 AM | #11 |
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I code them back on only for the legal checkup (MOT/TUV) every 2 years, or when it's extremly snowy, other than that totally useless feature.
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12-03-2018, 07:45 PM | #12 |
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I’m glad they took them out, all they were good for was getting washer fluid all over my freshly waxed hood and bumper. Since BMW took those away, I think they should include the European rear fog light standard on U.S. cars.
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12-03-2018, 08:22 PM | #13 |
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One of the very first things I coded off when I got Bimmercode. It doesn't snow here and I find washing the car occasionally works just fine.
Spraying water all over the place when I need to wash the windscreen is not a "feature" I want. |
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Glad I got them on the 2014. Idk how else I would make road raging people in traffic shut up and put thier window back up...
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Can I do this??!? Are they pivoting nozzles?
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12-04-2018, 09:54 PM | #19 |
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I've never really understood the point of them, it's like a feature that's there for the sake of being there. It's useful once in a blue moon, if that.
With that being said, why would they get rid of it? That feature has been around on cars for decades. I suppose modern LED lights are so good that a little bit of snow/dirt isn't a big deal. |
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12-05-2018, 05:07 AM | #20 |
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The point of headlight washers is to keep the headlights clean in order to reduce glare/diffraction of light in unwanted directions. It has nothing to do with snow, but with dirt.
LED headlights are not required to have washers as the total light output of these LED's is below a certain value (2000 lumen). Xenon bulbs go above that. (and tungsten obviously also below that). That rule still stands and hasn't changed. (So if a car should have LED lights with an output above 2000 lumen, it would require the washers) This is btw an european rule; afaik in the US, the washers aren't required at all. European ruleset: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...1X1206%2803%29 Ruleset for the washers itself: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...6KbYukl7zbPsPP
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