And the connector tabs seem to always make me want to burn my car down

Wow! Did not expect to see you comment here. S60 T6 is great too. Come for our Volvo meeting next time. You can email me.

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Philips Extreme Vision Gen2 seems to be more bright than OEM Philips bulbs

Miks Silacērps yes I got Philips white vision gen2...led look...5000K

I don't

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Don't worry, the tail light assembly MORE than makes up for the easy-to-access head lights

@@drewshafer9379 On the other hand, the tail lights are mostly LED-modules so (in theory) they won't need replacing.

@@marcusjosefsson4998 mine went out on me. Looking at an afternoon of work and $200+ for the assembly or pay god-knows-how much for a dealership to do it

@@drewshafer9379 Yeah, when they do go it's a hassle to replace them.

No, only a system which automatically turns off the high beams when it sees another car was available. There was also an option called active bending lights (ABL) which turns the headlights along with the steering wheel but i'm not sure if that was offered in north america.

I read on Reddit that the dealer can reprogram this for $80 or so... going in tomorrow, wish me luck!

Well, it's not necessary but recommended. Recommendation is based mainly on two factors: 1) Bulbs usually have roughly the same lifespan. If one is done for, chances are the other will break pretty soon too. 2) Xenon/HID-bulbs slightly changes color when nearing the end of their lifespan. The light gets weaker and develops a more reddish tint the older the bulb gets, thus the light turns purple/pink. A phenomenon known as "pink eye" that'll have a negative affects on light output. But besides from that there's no reason for changing a perfectly good xenon bulb. If you're satisfied with the good one, keep it. But inspect the light first, if you've got pink eye you should change it.

The later model years have clear sidemarkers, this car is from 2015 so it probably had them from the factory, can't imagine someone buying new headlights just for the clear sidemarker.

Get some CanBus ready LED bulbes or try to add resistors to the existing ones.

I'm sure it's way too late now but for anyone else: the position lights are usually the "side marker" lights found in the front / rear bumper at the fender. You might not even notice it's a light, you might think it's just a reflector.

Where did you get your bulbs? I've been wanting a whiter light

Alex Ruiz at a regular car store. Phillips bramd. Very led look.

Can’t answer . Don’t know

Found out yesterday that the halogen lamp comes on at the same time that the xenon lamp becomes more intense when activating the high beam. So this reassures what I read in the net that the xenon light is permanently on high beam with part of the beam being mechanically shaded inside the headlight casing. When the lever is pulled in the cockpit this activates the halogen lamp and the Mechanical barrier in front of the xenon bulb moves away to allow more light out. This would explain why the new lamp box indicates valid for both low and high beams. I am replacing the lamps tomorrow so will confirm then.

They are not installed from factory anymore. The older ones like my 2009 T6 has them

@@volvosweden That's interesting.

My halogens shine good. Dont want to spend $$$. So no plans.

@@volvosweden Suppose you don't have lot's of scrap yards/breaker yards with heaps of Volvo's in Canada? Here in Sweden you can make some bargain deals from time to time, parts are plentyful here. I've made some upgrades on my '11 V70 R-Design with cheap used (but in extremely good shape) parts from scrap yards. I'm really not that into making videos of my projects, but perhaps I should be? Have done some really nice, and cheap, upgrades: 2015 illuminated shifter, with some extra mods. Swapped out the entire shifter assembly. Also replaced the leather part of the gear knob to one with perforated leather, just to keep the R-Design sporty style. Also swapped the shifter gaiter/boot to one with white stitching, it fits my black/white R-Design seats perfectly. Then I found a complete armrest console on my go-to scrap yard. It's the newer one with LED-ligts in the cupholder. It also had the aluminum rolling cover over the cupholders. Really nice with the original R-Design aluminum trim panels! I also swapped out the armrest cover lid, but this came from an S80 Executive so it had the white stitching too. Also installed the LED-ligts just above the inside door handles, also from the S80 Executive. To complete the interior I swapped the original four spoke R-Design steering wheel for a three spoke steering wheel from an XC60 R-Design. With, you guessed it, white stitching. I've done some other mods too, like replacing the front fog lights with XC70 LED DRL's, tail light module etc.

I was wondering if it's possible to just replace the factory halogen headlight assembly with a factory Xenon assembly since all the electronic modules appear to be within the headlight assembly. I'd like to convert my 2010 V70 R-Design halogens into Xenon's. If it's just a headlight assembly swap I'm sure it would require a software upgrade too.

Paul Lee, did you switch the factory halogen to the Xenon? Did you had to make any changes? Or was just plug and play?

@@pclayton5063 you could check on forums.swedespeed.com, someone there made a guide of how he switched his 2013 xc70 from halogen to xenon with ABL, that is a car from after the 2013 facelift though

Ed HID are expensive. Glad my v60 only has Halogen for low and high

Its his friends car

Без разбора фары ее не поменять. Это при условии что у меня светодиодный габарит с завода. На более ранних версиях лампочка меняется без разбора фары. Там стоит простая лампочка накаливания

Ну я снял фару она стоит глубоко внутри её как бы не достать

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the bulb starts blinking or glowing red

It turns redish when its at its final days

Over time (years) they slowly get less and less bright. I replaced the xenon bulbs in my parents' car because they got very dim and were pretty useless. You could think about changing them when they are getting older and you notice the low light output or when they actually break like described in the other replies.

Sometimes your car tells you :) My lamp just died at some point and internal diagnostic caught it.

@@helmsman13 yes, this I believe but this happens when the bulb has died already I guess.

JaWee iT I have the same problem with V70 P3. Do you have any solution?

No solution yet. I visited Volvo. They think maybe it is reat axle, cardan shaft or the transmission 🤦🏻‍♂️

Is it only when you try to accelerate?

@@jaweeit8728 Sounds like a well-trained Volvo-Expert-Garage: NOT. Go somewhere else...and save some money.

This is the European headlight. It does not have parking light.

@@volvosweden Not sure what you call it, but I mean the small 5w thing between the high and low beam lamps...

@@petticlone that's an LED on these later models, they're not replaceable.