How to align new headlights?
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How to align new headlights?
Some of you already know I swapped out my headlights. I am having trouble aligning them properly. I did try counting the turns from where they were to lock on both axis. But I lost the sheet. Would someone be so kind to do this for me?
I tried some measuring technique on the internet where you find the center of the drivers side and the center of the passenger side. Its close but I am still not sold.
Does anyone have a picture of the beams taken at night without a flash?
Thanks!
I tried some measuring technique on the internet where you find the center of the drivers side and the center of the passenger side. Its close but I am still not sold.
Does anyone have a picture of the beams taken at night without a flash?
Thanks!
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RE: How to alighn new headlights?
if you mean aiming the lights, remember this. light travels in a straight line. with this in mind I took a flat piece of wood (like a stake for a tomato plant) and measured off two lines in front of the car on the ground. one at 5 feet and one at 10 feet. i then used the cut off line from the projection headlights and drew a line where the cut off line hit the stick while on the 3 foot mark. i then made sure that same line was hit at the 10 foot mark. you just use the screws on the top of the headlights to aim them. be careful!! the head lights tend to break if you are too rough with them. i hope this helps. and make sure you are parked on level ground or all of this work will be for nothing.
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RE: How to alighn new headlights?
Good question. I think that they should be parallel, meaning they should appear seperate. That being said, it is probably difficult to adjust perfectlyand if you have the choice.. I think the beams are better if they slowly converge.. that is better than slowly spreading apart.
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RE: How to alighn new headlights?
Thanks Bo, I agree... One thing I noticed and I am going to try my hest to explain this so bare with me. The patter of the beam, the center seems to be a square. But on the left of the square the bottom of the beam ends at the very bottom of the square. On the right of the square the beam seems to end at the top. Have you ever noticed this? Looking at the individual beam, from left to right it appears to be a step, as if there is a platform of light, then a step up to another platform - lol, I hope this makes sense, if not I can try a little better.
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