Has anyone else noticed that when on low beam the lights have a very sharp cutoff and that they only light up maybe 50 yards or so of road, and beyond that is dark? On high beam they seem to do a much better job. I also don’t see the lights swiveling when I turn or side lights working like they did in my 2013.

I inderstand the advanced functionality of the PDLS plus headlights are currently restricted in the USA but am hopeful that will be changing soon and that PORSCHE will be able to reprogram the lights with that additional technology.

In in the meantime is there any way to adjust the lights?

Yes. The headlights do not have a step in the beam pattern, or a hot spot, making down road vision poor. There is a screw easily accessible when you pop the hood allowing you to adjust them up. I adjusted mine up a bit and it helped. Just be careful not to adjust them up too much. When aiming them, a small adjustment in height on a wall 25 feet away is a large adjustment to a car 200 yards away.

I have noticed this too and was wondering whether the headlights were adjusted properly. My car’s in the shop right now for other issues and glitches, so I may ask service to check the headlights’ adjustment as long as it’s there.

Meanwhile, on a slight digression, my car has 3 other anomalies or glitches about which I brought the car into service to resolve. One glitch relates to the PCM (diamond button functionality not being displayed) requires a software update that the dealer says is coming from Germany and it’ll take 3 weeks. The two other glitches - a park assist problem (see my separate post) and a transmission downshift from 3rd to 2nd that surges the car forward) - were acknowledged by the dealer as not proper operation, but they are software-related and he can do nothing. He is opening cases with the Mothership to get their attention on the issues.

Are you talking like 1/4 turn or a full turn. Just trying to get an idea. My old Volvo V70R had the same issue with the xenon headlights. Took a while to get them to the point of being able to see vs. getting flashed by oncoming traffic.

Is this the adjustment of which you speak?

Yes. I think I did 5 “twists” of the screwdriver. Each twist is probably half a turn. It was a little too high, so I backed it down 2 twists, and then it was a little too low. So maybe 2 full rotations? It’s easy enough to adjust you can keep playing with it til you find the seeet spot.

Does changing the aim of the low beams affect the high beams? Or are they independently adjustable?

Do you have the high beam assist on? They work excellent.

Yes - I keep high beam assist always activated in Auto mode. It works OK, but I’ve found it doesn’t activate the high beams at local village speeds of around 30 mph (when the sharp cutoff of the low beams is particularly noticeable). Also, on a highway, high beam assist reverts to low beams if it sees any light ahead, no matter how distant. For instance, when driving a divided highway having a very large grassy median between the two directions of traffic, I’ve found that high beam assist turns off the high beams even though they plainly would not bother cars going the opposite way.

I believe - though I could be wrong, of course - that all of this will resolve when (if) the full Matrix LED functionality of PDLS+ is enabled in our cars when approved for the U.S. I’m hoping this will happen soon (like you, I already placed a $2000 bet on that hope when I opted to buy PDLS+).

And you can’t get high beam assist without the matrix head lights! That did it for me