Xenon Headlights pointing upwards now

[MancMike]

Hi,

I'd quarter of a tank of 99 RON in my tank and thought I'd be immature and have a bit of a hoon on my way home. Then as I got nearer home, other traffic arrived and so I settled down to normal driving. I got flashed at by an oncoming nice E-Class. I checked and hadn't accidentally knocked main beam on, and I hadn't...

Further up the road at some lights I noticed that the flat horizontal line my Xenons project was about 15 degrees higher than it usually is (sorry E-Class!). It usually sits around waist height.

I stopped and restarted the engine for it to do it's leveling dip down, then back up thing, and it did so, but returned to this now much higher level.

What've I broken? Is there a level sensor somewhere?

 

[grumpyoldgit]

Not sure if the W204 is the same as previous model, but there are two sensors on the W203 as per this diagram. Check the linkages on them.

 

[MancMike]

Ah. Thanks.

A51 and A52. So there's two sensors... I assume the readings are averaged or these two have to agree, or be ignored or something.

Maybe a hard corner or bump has snapped a leg off one of these then.

I'll have a check.