Self leveling and ride height
...I looked again, clicking on the parts # 4 & 5 on the above link and see clearly that the self-levelers (attitude adjusters) are NOT for USA and CDN cars. Guess we don't get that feature.
I too read more carefully and further in the Wikipedia article on headlamps (they make distinction between lights and lamps!) is the following:
"Internationalized ECE Regulation 48, in force in
most of the world outside North America, currently requires such systems on all vehicles. The regulation stipulates a more stringent version of this antiglare measure for vehicles equipped with headlamp bulbs producing more than 2,000 lumens, such as Xenon headlamps; such vehicles must be equipped with headlamp self-levelling
systems that sense the vehicle's degree of squat due to cargo load and road inclination, and automatically adjust the headlamps' vertical aim to keep the beam correctly oriented without any action required by the driver."
Not to belabour this, but does this mean that those of us with self-leveling headlamps need not worry about changing ride height as the lights, oops, I mean lamps self adjust? i.e. there is enough range in movement that they will correct for the change in suspension. Or is there a reference point which has to be adjusted around which the lamps level after changing suspension?
