[Max Kuhl]

Totally disagree with you. The pattern in the headlights are very similar to a "floater" in your eye. It is dangerous and distracting. I bought a brand new 2024 Outback yesterday and I drove it home in the dark. It was horrible. It is much worse on the highway. It's like someone or something is waving a flag at you to the left in your peripheral vision.

I have a 2024 Outback and I have had the same issue. The dealer adjusted the lights to shine higher almost like highbeams. Oncoming drivers turn their brights on me constantly because they think I have my brights on, almost had an accident tonight with this situatio.

 

[Silver Fox24]

I have a 2024 Outback and I have had the same issue. The dealer adjusted the lights to shine higher almost like highbeams. Oncoming drivers turn their brights on me constantly because they think I have my brights on, almost had an accident tonight with this situatio.

maybe you should let them adjust lower again

 

[Nutjob1]

I have a 2024 Outback and I have had the same issue. The dealer adjusted the lights to shine higher almost like highbeams. Oncoming drivers turn their brights on me constantly because they think I have my brights on, almost had an accident tonight with this situatio.

Is this '24 OB your first vehicle with a distinctive horizontal cutoff, seen when reflecting your headlights from a wall?

 

[pattijo108]

I have this too and it is sooooo distracting and unsafe. This is my first suburu and I am not feeling very happy with my purchase. Never thought I would need to test drive at night. Can we get this fixed?

 

[Silver Fox24]

I have this too and it is sooooo distracting and unsafe. This is my first suburu and I am not feeling very happy with my purchase. Never thought I would need to test drive at night. Can we get this fixed?

yes, there is a company that can replace the headlights. I believe I posted it few messages ago

 

[pattijo108]

The headlights are totally distracting and yes, dangerous. The field of vision is not projected far out enough and the black "shadows" that move in front of the car and follow a turn look like something is moving on the road in front of the car. Would I have bought a 2024 Crosstrek if I was aware of this? No. I am hoping for a recall to correct this hazard. Night driving is stressful and it shouldn't be with a brand new model!

Joyce I couldn’t agree more. For me I usually lease but bought this time…which makes it even more disappointing. They need to fix it. Taking mine in to see why they can do…

 

[Jimsr]

my wife’s Crosstrek is a ‘24 premium. We use it for 90% of our long term driving. This past Sunday we were driving ho frame my son’s home in Northern Virginia. The last 2/5 of the trip was at night. My wife was driving. Try as I might, I have been unable to discern the little”blocks” in the headlight pattern on the roadway, either on the highway or back countpry roads. I know the “blocks” are there because they show up on the garage wall. By te way, the light pattern on this car is excellent. Visibility is far better than on earlier Subar or my 2020 Kia Soul‘s high beams.

 

[Silver Fox24]

Joyce I couldn’t agree more. For me I usually lease but bought this time…which makes it even more disappointing. They need to fix it. Taking mine in to see why they can do…

let us know what they say

 

[Nutjob1]

I have this too and it is sooooo distracting and unsafe. This is my first suburu and I am not feeling very happy with my purchase. Never thought I would need to test drive at night. Can we get this fixed?

Are you new to headlights with the distinctive horizontal cutoff?

This was a design since HID headlights debuted years ago. Older headlights using halogen bulbs are reflector type designs. HID and led headlights are projector designs to concentrate the very bright lighting and utilize European lighting systems of only one headlight per side. This is an expensive upgrade to have an automatic or manual control of low and high beams from one light source. Low beams show the horizontal cutoff against a wall. Lowering an internal plate allows high beams from the same led projector headlight. Guess how expensive this is?

Unless you're willing to spend a great deal of money to replace original headlights to something without the distracting (to some) dark block on both sides, you may not know how sophisticated these led headlights are and the amount of electronics that are involved in moving headlights up/down, right/left at night. You can disable the automatic steering headlights so they always point straight ahead.

 

[debwerger]

Wife’s new crosstrek has a very annoying couple of spots in the headlights. When driving you can see two dark images(one for each headlight), they look like two rear view mirrors hanging down. It’s very distrac to her.
Anyone else see this? Don’t see anything looking in the headlamps.

I have my new 25 Subaru outback at the dealership now because that is what is happening when my headlights are on dim

 

[Greyfox]

 

[sanghill]

Apparently this is normal: https://www.i4talk.com/threads/headlight-pattern.5719/
Don't even notice it, I am happy to have great headlights.

 

[KJ_Aardvark]

I have my new 25 Subaru outback at the dealership now because that is what is happening when my headlights are on dim

Those black dots are supposed to be there.
They're also why I have the steering responsive headlight system turned off.
The movement is HIGHLY distracting, it repeatedly triggers "something moving in the road" alarm in my brain. (As noted above https://www.subaruxvforum.com/posts/2204209/)

 

[Silver Fox24]

Are headlights getting brighter? Is there a limit to how bright they can be?

LEDs emit greater and more focused beams of light, which can make it harder for other drivers to see if the aim is off

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[BillLin]

Cannot read the article without a subscription.

 

[KJ_Aardvark]

There NEEDS to be a limit on how bright and how "focused" and "sharp cutoff" they can be. It's getting ridiculous.

The BIG thing is to put a very hard limit on how much blue light can be emitted, both an absolute limit and a percentage limit.

As it stands, even low beams that are within legal/regulatory requirements are blasting people in the eyes with blinding levels of light, whether from head on, or from behind via the side mirrors.


I have been trying to figure out where and how I could mount white reflectors such that anyone whose headlights are blasting my mirrors would also get a taste of their own klieg lights.

 

[KJ_Aardvark]

Cannot read the article without a subscription.

If your browser or a plugin has the ability to control which javascript runs on a page, kill them all except for "https: // www . theglobeandmail . com" (the spaces are added to prevent it from parsing as a link).

 

[Joyce L]

Wife’s new crosstrek has a very annoying couple of spots in the headlights. When driving you can see two dark images(one for each headlight), they look like two rear view mirrors hanging down. It’s very distrac to her.
Anyone else see this? Don’t see anything looking in the headlamps.

Yes, you are absolutely correct! Those spots are more than annoying - to me they can be very hazardous. I have a 2024 Crosstrek Limited and have noticed that the field of vision (without the brights) is very limited. The light does not project far enough out on the road from the car. Those rectangular shadows you mentioned move with the car when turning which makes it almost seem like there is something crossing in front of the car. I made the mistake of not test driving this Crosstrek at night before I bought. Had I done this, I would not have chosen this Subaru. Everything else is perfect.
I have written to the company with no response. I think if more people did, there might be a corrective recall?

 

[Silver Fox24]

@Joyce L did you go to somebody to test how much is “far enough”?

you can block the adaptive light so the rectangle won’t move

 

[Silver Fox24]

Cannot read the article without a subscription.

Sorry, I’ll try to find it again and post a pdf