XC60 bi-Xenon Main Beam

[wimorrison]

For several week I have thought that my main beams are heading sky-wards rather than horizontal and I tested them against a wall today to find that they are 3" above horizontal at 25'. This means that I light up the tops of the trees on the roads around my way

In the old tests, before new beam setters, used to be done like this where main beam was straight from the front of the lens and at the same height as the lens. Dipped beam would then be set correctly and if you had separate dipped lamps they were set 2" below horizontal at 25'

Volvo told me the lights were correctly set last week at the 3000ml service and that all their XC60s display similar behaviour

My questions are twofold;

a) Do your main beams appear to head sky-wards?
b) does anyone know how main beam alignment can be adjusted?

Thanks

[Clan]

These days you adjust the dip beam to specification , the the main beam which is in the same reflector moulding is automaticaly set correctly . The XC60 wouldnt have a separatley adjustable main beam reflector would it?
If you have Bi-xenon lights the main beam will be conventional bulbs , and when you go onto main beam you will notice the dips stay on BUT also tilt up quite a bit to aid main beam

[wimorrison]

Clan, I realise that the requirements are now to align lamps on the dip beam for most lamp patterns (there are still some set in the old way though ) but because they are set for the MOT on dip beam does not preclude an ability to set the main beam independently - in fact it would tend to indicate that they can be set separately as they are in another reflector housing.

I know that on BMW and Audi this can be done, but you need to set the system into a manual mode disable the automatic levelling, do the adjustments, then re-enable the auto-levelling.

I was wondering if Volvo is similar and whether this can only be done by a dealer or whether it is mechanical and I can do it at home?