Headlight Alignment

Post by **blkmav** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 8:05 am

I’m looking for an auto electrician in the South Eastern Melbourne area that has a headlight alignment tool. Just changed the useless sealed beams to halogen and want to align.

Website · Post by **murcod** » Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:45 pm

Why not do it yourself? Just electrically disconnect one light at a time and adjust the other checking both high and low beam. They're normally easy to adjust with no special tools needed.

Post by **blkmav** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:16 am

murcod wrote:Why not do it yourself? Just electrically disconnect one light at a time and adjust the other checking both high and low beam. They're normally easy to adjust with no special tools needed.

What do you 'adjust' them to? i.e. what do you line them up with? how high should they be to not blind on coming drivers etc...

Website · Post by **murcod** » Wed Jul 28, 2004 8:07 am

Go out at night and find a long flat road that doesn't get used much. Put high beam on and then adjust that to get the best distance/ direction for each light. Low beam should then be OK.

Post by **SimplyPV** » Thu Jul 29, 2004 12:02 pm

you could also face your garage door or a wall, about 15 ft out, put on your high beams and just adjust until they are slightly angled down and nearly straight, trick to not blinding anyone is to have your driver side light slightly turned to the the pass. side, so the lights cross over eachother a bit... takes a bit of pratice to get it right the first time. but is very easy.

Post by **bazzle** » Fri Aug 06, 2004 5:10 pm

On flat ground drive up to wall/door on low beam.
Mark the cutoff to left shape on wall.
Back back 6m or so.
Light cutoff should be about 100mm below and a few mm to the left of mark. Adj to here.
Centre distance should be same but lower as above and not to the right at all.

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