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  1. [quote user="Cassis"]It is only necessary to take action if your French headlights have a pattern that throws up part of the beam above the horizontal.  You can test this by turning on your headlights with dipped beam whilst facing a wall - preferably in the dark.  If there is no upthrow to the right (intended to illuminate the side of the road and pavement on the right when driving on the continent, but which would dazzle oncoming traffic when driving on the left in the UK) then you don't need to do anything.  If there is an upthrow, then get some insulating tape and stick it on the lens to block off the offending part of the beam.  The offending part of the beam probably (but not necessarily) originates from the bottom right part of the lens as you look at it.  Use as little tape as you can to block out the beam. [/quote] Many thanks, Cassis.  Your reply is really appreciated. V
  2. Erm, sorry to interrupt the merry badinage but I'm now really confused. Stupidly, I thought since you can buy stickery-things to adapt UK headlights for France the reverse would hold true.  From what is being said here it seems that this is not necessary.  Have I understood correctly? Sunday Driver - it would be really useful if you could point me to wherever you got the extract from the UK regulations that Benjamin mentions in his post.  Was it the DVLA site? I would really appreciate some help here. V.
  3. Apologies if there is already something on the subject on this part of the Forum.  I did a search but couldn't find anything. Whe're planning a trip back to the UK.  Our trusty Astra Estate now has French headlights (fitted when we re-registered it in France).  We're assuming we can find stickers (or similar) to put on in order to re-adapt them to UK standards for our trip.  What are they called in French?  Where would we buy them? Many thanks. V
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