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Thanks for confirming. your photo is just like mine. 35w and 18w

Hi Matt, The coding issue I came across was where the LED main beams had been erroneously coded as HID and were receiving only 25% of the power they should have had. This guy had the coding corrected and the LED lights were much better than they had been. I'll see if I can find the post again when I get a moment. Hi Richard, Thanks for all that and you have confirmed my thoughts that it is not really a viable solution. I had seen the costs of the units - new and 2nd hand. I can live with the lights as they are if I have to but it is disappointing. I do a lot of night driving and I'd hoped the new car (to me) which is great in almost every other respect would be at least as good as the old one (XC70) at night. Also just to confirm a point is a previous post - I do actually have the working headlight washers. As far as I know the light units are all one piece and the garage didn't think bulbs could be changed independently. However I will investigate further.

Just a quick update following the service. Alignment was out a bit but not seriously. Now corrected. New front disks cured some vibration on heavy braking. Was worried it was another bush or two. All ok otherwise. Re the headlight issue - they couldn't check as it wasn't dark ! Annoying, but they said they can have another go if car in overnight. They did say that if there is an issue with the LED light units, replacement is the only option which would be very annoying and seriously expensive. It seems unlikely that they would deteriorate in under 90k miles. I remember seeing on a forum (possibly here) that one of the software packages will show a % power to the lights indicating a possible coding issue. I know it wasn't VCDS which I have and not tried yet so will see if that will show the same. Any ideas what other package to look at? As a final thought - has anyone changed the standard LED units for the matrix type ? If they have, so what else is involved - wiring, coding etc. i.e. is it actually a viable option. Thanks again.

Hi. Thanks for the heads up on the washers. Re the alignment, not crashed as far as I know. Nothing recorded, or signs of. However, when I bought the car from a small dealer 180 miles away from home, I viewed it in person, and agreed that a few things needed doing and agreed to buy on the understanding they were. Included was new MOT, new rear tyres, full service including gearbox, and a thorough valet. Car was delivered with a new mot, but none of the other things done. Rear tyres were highly illegal with the cords showing in the inner side and had obviously put the delivery driver at risk of prosecution or worse. The dealer eventually provided some new tyres which I had fitted. I then didn't believe they had done any of the other service so I took it to my local and they did the service. They and also found severely worn front lower arms which I had replaced. So much for the mot ! A very poor start to my ownership, but thankfully the car is actually ok generally, and my garage didn't find anything else. The chassis alignment is to check that the front and rear tracking, camber, caster etc. are ok after the suspension work and the very worn rear tyres. My garage couldn't do it at the time as their mot bay was fully booked. I hope they don't find anything else ! We tend to call the wheel alignment chassis on another forum I inhabit so apologies for any confusion.

OK..... I didn't think to look if they actually worked. I will check in daylight.

Matt too. Mine has washers so they missed a trick there !

Thanks Steve. Useful if disappointing news. My z4 has a similar bi-xenon set up and you can drive at daytime speeds at night - traffic permitting !

Thanks again. I have the car booked in to my local Audi specialist (not Audi dealership) next week for service and chassis alignment etc., and have asked them to check the lights out while they have the car. Hopefully they will be able to tell me if it is to spec or not. I'll update when I know. Finding another one to compare with around here in Rural West Wales will be a challenge ! All I can say at the moment is that they are not as good as my Z4 with HIDs or XC70 with halogens both of which are 9 or 10 years older.

Thanks Matt. Unfortunately I don't have the matrix option. My issue is that the standard LED main beams are lacking in power, and I can't see that they are mis-aligned as the dipped beams are fine and I get no flashing back from other road users. Also they don't seem to be lighting up things at any higher level than my other cars. Are you saying they are just poor from the factory ? I assume changing to the matrix option is not a realistic proposition in terms of cost and complexity.

Hi all. I have just acquired a 2017 A6 allroad with standard LED headlights (not matrix). Although the dipped beams are fine the main beams seem very poor and lacking in power and don't light up the road nearly as well as other cars I have. 2006 BMW z4 coupe with HID lights and 2008 Volvo XC70 with Halogen lights. both are much better. Is this normal for Audi or do I have a fault ? If this is how they all are then it is very disappointing and definitely not an improvement in technology. The auto dip is off but I didn't notice any difference when it was on. I have seen another post about the having wrong coding, but it seems a bit unlikely in this case as the car is one owner before me and completely unmolested as far as I can tell. Many thanks for any observations. Apologies - I posted this in the C6 forum yesterday, but couldn't see how to move it, hence the re-post.

Sorry this should be in the C7 forum !

Hi all. I have just acquired a 2017 A6 allroad with standard LED headlights (not matrix). Although the dipped beams are fine the main beams seem very poor and lacking in power and don't light up the road nearly as well as other cars I have. 2006 BMW z4 coupe with HID lights and 2008 Volvo XC70 with Halogen lights. both are much better. Is this normal for Audi or do I have a fault ? If this is how they all are then it is very disappointing and definitely not an improvement in technology. The auto dip is off but I didn't notice any difference when it was on. I have seen another post about the having wrong coding, but it seems a bit unlikely in this case as the car is one owner before me and completely unmolested as far as I can tell. Many thanks for any observations.