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Old Nov 26th, 2021, 10:28   #11
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For a while I had an Xenon headlight assembly on one side, without the ABL function (the "look around the corner" function) available. It worked, but I got an indicator lamp lit all the time, to tell it wasn't working.
But I do have Xenon with ABL normally. The reason for this temporary fix was that my original headlamp was destroyed.

There's quite a difference in how useful the Xenon light is when you add ABL to the equation. I don't understand why you don't care about that - I'd say it's a valuable additional feature.

I've never had to try to change the config of any car - I bought mine with the equipment I sought after, but I've understood that you need to crack some PIN code in the car to do it.
The Volvo ABL lights, especially on the later (2015MY->) models are absolutely brilliant - the best factory headlights on any car I've driven.

My wife has a relatively new Golf with LED headlights that were an option costing over £1,000 and they Volvo ABL's on my 2015 XC60 are significantly better - both on dipped and main beam.
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No it can't. The headlamp type - and switching method - is burned into the CEM at manufacture and cannot be changed after - not by VIDA or VDASH.
Is that definitely true on P3s, even if you get the PIN to unlock the modules? It can be changed (in the car config, etc) on P2s - a friend retro-fitted ABLs (with full functionality) from a very late P2 S60/V70 to his earlier S60R. I think it was a world first, but he did it (and did it properly, as if the factory had done it - no hackery with resistors, etc).

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I notice no difference in the Xenon ABL headlights between our two XC70's. One is a 2012, the other a 2016 model. The specification for the lights is the same. Bi-Xenon, supported by halogen (H7) high beam and ABL.

I had my ABL stop working once, due to a software update at regular service. First time I drove in the dark after that I was worried for a while why the light seemed so bad. I wondered if it was my eyes, until I realized that ABL didn't work. Volvo had changed how you needed to set some switch for it to work.
Nobody liked the change, it seems, because it went back to the original function again later.
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I notice no difference in the Xenon ABL headlights between our two XC70's. One is a 2012, the other a 2016 model. The specification for the lights is the same. Bi-Xenon, supported by halogen (H7) high beam and ABL.

I had my ABL stop working once, due to a software update at regular service. First time I drove in the dark after that I was worried for a while why the light seemed so bad. I wondered if it was my eyes, until I realized that ABL didn't work. Volvo had changed how you needed to set some switch for it to work.
Nobody liked the change, it seems, because it went back to the original function again later.
There was an update where the ABL function was disabled when the headlight position was at "0" but the headlights were on as they were the DRL'.
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Is that definitely true on P3s, even if you get the PIN to unlock the modules? It can be changed (in the car config, etc) on P2s - a friend retro-fitted ABLs (with full functionality) from a very late P2 S60/V70 to his earlier S60R. I think it was a world first, but he did it (and did it properly, as if the factory had done it - no hackery with resistors, etc).

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I didn't think ABL's were fitted to any P2 cars with the exception of the 2007MY onwards XC90? That's just my belief based on cars I've seen rather than anything I've read, but late model P2 V70 etc. had reflector based headlights, even those with Xenon, so couldn't be ABL ?
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This is listed as a VDASH supported application - fitting ABL xenon to a halogen car and also the reverse (fitting halogens into a ABL xenon).

It's not straight forward as it does require extra wiring/sensors and ideally I would say you'd need to change over the headlamp control fascia next to your knee to remove the manual headlight adjustment wheel. Some smart MOT person might recognise that a "genuine" ABL xenon car would not have this as they're automatically adjusting.

https://d5t5.com/article/volvo-change-configuration

I'd love to do this conversion to be honest. I love my V70 and I've loads of extra kit I love...but sadly not the xenons - The one bit of "luxury" that I consider a fundamental safety feature!
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This is listed as a VDASH supported application - fitting ABL xenon to a halogen car and also the reverse (fitting halogens into a ABL xenon).

It's not straight forward as it does require extra wiring/sensors and ideally I would say you'd need to change over the headlamp control fascia next to your knee to remove the manual headlight adjustment wheel. Some smart MOT person might recognise that a "genuine" ABL xenon car would not have this as they're automatically adjusting.

https://d5t5.com/article/volvo-change-configuration

I'd love to do this conversion to be honest. I love my V70 and I've loads of extra kit I love...but sadly not the xenons - The one bit of "luxury" that I consider a fundamental safety feature!
Looks like I stand to be corrected.... but I'm sure I've never seen a P2 car with ABL's other than MY2007-> XC90 (after all the other P2 models were discontinued).
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The Volvo ABL lights, especially on the later (2015MY->) models are absolutely brilliant - the best factory headlights on any car I've driven.

My wife has a relatively new Golf with LED headlights that were an option costing over £1,000 and they Volvo ABL's on my 2015 XC60 are significantly better - both on dipped and main beam.
Until met with last night's blizzard on the way home from work in the early hours when they were pretty hopeless, not enough heat emanating out to melt the heavy snow and too much light fragmentation at the top of the lense causing the snow blindness....It would have been advantageous to have the halogens at that moment in time.
Thanks to Percy Shaw and his cats eyes I was able to place the wheels on them as a physical/audible means of continuing....

....but other than that, I agree that they are mighty fine. If I ever need to remind myself how good they are I get in Mrs Ruby's Mini Paceman and switch on the headcandles
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Until met with last night's blizzard on the way home from work in the early hours when they were pretty hopeless, not enough heat emanating out to melt the heavy snow and too much light fragmentation at the top of the lense causing the snow blindness....It would have been advantageous to have the halogens at that moment in time.
Thanks to Percy Shaw and his cats eyes I was able to place the wheels on them as a physical/audible means of continuing....
The problem there is Volvo stopped fitting headlight wipers when car safety regulations meant you could no longer have glass headlights... (plastic headlights would scratch with wipers).
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I’d love to have xenons on mine too. I should have bought an SE Lux. Halogen lights, even with brighter bulbs are useless.

I also miss having a rear wiper. I know its a saloon, so it doesn’t have one. However, every bit of dirt/grime sticks to the window. When its raining heavy, the rear de-mist doesn’t clear the window quickly either, so visibility isn’t the greatest in those circumstances.
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