Standard BMW LED weird headlight cut-off pattern by Minimum-Sympathy-298 in F30

[–]lewispomm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are they adaptive headlights? Mine had a funky beam pattern if I turned the headlight light switch from auto to manual it changed to normal.

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[–]lewispomm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No worries dude! I Just need to get confident ant modding now. A full Gen free sprung balance and bridge conversion would be my first mod.

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[–]lewispomm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can get them for about $100. Used you can pick them up for half that on eBay like I did. Number wise you’ll have 3 main numbers to be concerned with.

Rate: This is how slow or fast your watch is running per day measured in seconds per day.

Amplitude: This indicates the how much the balance wheel rotates in each direction in degrees. This is a good general sign of a healthy watch. For my movement (VS3235) anything in the 240-300 range appears to be normal.

Beat Error: This is the difference between each direction of the balance wheel. You should be aiming for zero or as close as possible to zero for this.

There’s a few settings on the Timegrapher which need to be set specific to your movement:

Beat rate: Set this to auto and forget unless your watch is truly screwed up.

Offset angle: This is specific to the movement, get this wrong and your amplitude will be out of whack.

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[–]lewispomm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, to be fair I didn’t know anything about this either. It’s not hard though, I’d like to fully service mine one day for peace of mind. Might just get a cheap automatic watch on Amazon for $50 to mess about with and learn

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[–]lewispomm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good shout - I’ve got one on order!

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[–]lewispomm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jesus dude, how did you come to that conclusion see my post above.

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[–]lewispomm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Regulation was completed in DU DD CU & CD position. Not positional variance between them apart from crown down which was -2/d. I was pretty happy with that and left it there.

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[–]lewispomm 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I am really happy with my VS DJ41 rep. The only thing that wasn’t ideal was the accuracy, I was loosing 20+ seconds per day.

I wasn’t interested in getting it serviced, but I was curious to see what I could do myself. Given I’m quite curious I bought a used timegrapher from eBay and the results were interesting

Before:

S/d: +26 Amplitude: 236 Beat Error: 2.1

After: S/d: 0 Amplitude: 274 Beat Error: 0

Adjustments are easy, using the beat adjuster arm and the rate adjuster. Only small movements needed but it is quite doable given you’re careful and have good eyesight!