Kia Stinger Dynamic Bending headlights

[SteveCo]

Geez that's a pretty picture.

You say that bending lights help with "wildlife on the move" but wouldn't that only be true of say deer crossing the road from left to right as you were into a left hand curve? It seems that with the lights bending left, if a deer came in from the right side, the DBL would actually not be in position to spot the approaching herbivore as well as fixed lights would.

The best scenario is to have the road fully illuminated, but also the shoulders/ditches on each side - that's usually where you'll see the animals, just before they make a bound onto the road in a dash for the other side.

The DBLs do an excellent job of that as you go around a curve - bending to keep that broad sweep and illuminating the inside of the curve which is normally blacked out. I've lived in the foothills of the mountains all my life, and seen some of the carnage that results to both animals and vehicles (and occupants!) when they meet - the difference in useful illumination is quite pronounced, and most welcome.

 

[MerlintheMad]

The best scenario is to have the road fully illuminated, but also the shoulders/ditches on each side - that's usually where you'll see the animals, just before they make a bound onto the road in a dash for the other side.

The DBLs do an excellent job of that as you go around a curve - bending to keep that broad sweep and illuminating the inside of the curve which is normally blacked out. I've lived in the foothills of the mountains all my life, and seen some of the carnage that results to both animals and vehicles (and occupants!) when they meet - the difference in useful illumination is quite pronounced, and most welcome.

I see what you're saying. The margins are already lit up adequately on the near/right side of the road, and the DBLs turn inward and light up the left margin which is not adequately lit up with fixed lights.

I guess I don't miss what I've never had!

 

[D.J.]

It kinda sucks that turning on our high beams entirely disables the DBL - while the high beams are on.

Would like to have the high beams on - and still DBL enabled a the same time.

 

[str8bizns]

Does anyone here know how to identify the dynamic bending headlights from the non-bending headlights from the outside? Kia decided to omit the last three digits of the part number that identifies the Bending from the non-Bending, digits being 5120 for non bending and 5220 for bending. Kia only put J5 on the casing and didn’t complete the part number so the only way to identify them is by running the Vin number that the car that the light was removed from. I am trying to buy a replacement headlight for a 2020 GT2 that has dynamic bending and I am finding that all the eBay sellers do not know whether the lights they are posting are dynamic bending or not.

 

[Stinger GT SS]

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[Stinger GT SS]

Does anyone here know how to identify the dynamic bending headlights from the non-bending headlights from the outside? Kia decided to omit the last three digits of the part number that identifies the Bending from the non-Bending, digits being 5120 for non bending and 5220 for bending. Kia only put J5 on the casing and didn’t complete the part number so the only way to identify them is by running the Vin number that the car that the light was removed from. I am trying to buy a replacement headlight for a 2020 GT2 that has dynamic bending and I am finding that all the eBay sellers do not know whether the lights they are posting are dynamic bending or not.

FYI