head light settings

Started by Steve, July 06, 2015, 06:55:36 AM

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Steve

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has any one got a link for setting up your headlights ?
cheers.

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No but I've got a regular car that I parked a set distance from the garage doors and I've put pencil markings on the doors for low and heigh beams, plus little paint marks on the floor where the front tyres go.

There's an online guide here but tbh my lights (Mini sealed beams with integral sidelights) don't really have that much of a defined beam pattern anyway, plus I don't go out at night that much.

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_6196576_check-headlight-alignment.html
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I put dip onto the garage door and just make sure that the (poor) cutoff line lowers as the buggy is rolled away, thats as good as any.
Good gust of wind and they can easily move anyway
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this is my dilemma or not as the case might be.
I had to take the passenger light off to get the bonnet off, the drivers side is still on, the hight hasnt moved, apart from the whole light unit moved in from left to right.
so hers my thinking, if the drivers side is at the right height, if I mark where the beam is on the wall, all I need do it set the passenger to that height. no matter full or dip yeas/no if that makes sense.

All I would then need to do is find the right left to right setting on the whole unit, and set both..

other problem, I dont have a flat service, my drive runs up ever so slightly up to the garage door (cant use the inside of the garage, to much crap at the end of it), but again if the drivers side s ok, all I need do is match it on the passenger side.

Steve

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David,
Quoteplus I don't go out at night that much.
No, I wont either  :D
But I need to get it through the MOT.

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Can't you ring the MOT centre and get them to adjust the lights before they start.

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According to the mot manual, minor adjustments are allowed during the test.......happens every year on GBH.

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Quote from: Roadrunner on July 06, 2015, 09:34:53 AM
Can't you ring the MOT centre and get them to adjust the lights before they start.

didnt think of that  :)

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I have to adjust mine every year for the mot. It's normal for pod lamps to move quite a bit according to my MoT man. Any way they are just a twist or pull in to place nit like a modern car where you have to open a bonnet get a tool to adjust them and find you just undid your lamp and it fell out 😭😭As my mate once did on a Peugeot he had.
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