How to Adjust your headlights

[cdaw2001ES]

Abridged From the SM

#1 Inspect for badly rusted of faulty headlight assemblies
(these conditions must be corrected before "satisfactory" adjustments can be made

#2 Place the vehicle on a level floor - facing a flat wall (parking lot & building, driveway & garage, etc...)

3. Check tire pressure - make sure it's proper

4. If the fuel tank is full, skip this step
Place some weight in the trunk to simulate a full tank

5 bounce the vehicle with body weight, on the hood and side to assure vehicle is in normal position.

6. Only the person in the driver seat - nobody else in the car (get GF, Wife, Pal, monkey boy etc.. to help you out here)



7. Using a measuring tape - move the car to a point where the bulb lens center marks are 9.8 feet (3meters) from the wall - - so that the both headlights are 9.8 feet from the wall

8. Place 4 strips of tape on the wall like this:
1 vertical strip down the middle - aligned with the center line of the car
1 Horizontal strip across - aligned with the centers of the headlight lens center marks
2 Vertical strips - 1 for each lens center mark

9. Disconnect all other bulbs except the one you are aiming, You should use the normal - low beams for aiming.


10. Turn on the light. Make sure that you should not leave the headlights on for longer than 3 minutes - as they will get too hot -- no air flow to cool em, and you risk discoloring or burning the lens or housing.

11. What you are aiming for:
Vertical - 21mm or .8 inch below the horizontal strip
Horizontal - Where the "15 degree angle sloping section" intersects with the vertical line for that lens center mark. ... When you do this - you'll understand what that means


12. If you need to adjust. Start with the vertical - The adjusting screws on on the sides of the bulb socket - outside the housing

[Prophet]

How did you know I was going to adjust my headlights tonight. This is a real good tutoriul. Good Job.

[The F.B.I]

all i see is X's... on 12 it says the screws are on the outside of the housing... is this this screw holding down the bracket wich is holding the bulb in place?

[furiousgtz]

um i got to give it a try.

[The F.B.I]

eversince i changed my bulb or lowered the car it only goes out to about 10-15 feet at the most even with the fogs on i have to put my lights on hi just to see as far as my GF HID on her JAG

[The F.B.I]

is this the screw #12 is talkin about?


i don't know if its different but here is the housing from an 02

can someone help me out im going to vegas next week and it's hard to see driving there at night

[The F.B.I]

anyone?

[pinoyesv6]

the adjustment screws look like bottlecaps with a screw going through them

[ericbla03]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(The F.B.I)</div><div class='quotemain'>is this the screw #12 is talkin about?


i don't know if its different but here is the housing from an 02
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can someone help me out im going to vegas next week and it's hard to see driving there at night</div>

What you have circled in the first picture has nothing to do with aiming, thats what holds the bulb clip in place.. so leave that alone.

What you're looking for is in the second picture... its the 2 black 10mm bolts on the top left and bottom right of the picture. the one on the top left has a clear plastic covering over it. you wedge the phillips head screw driver in between the clear plastic and the headlight housing (black). Or if you pop off that clear plastic you can adjust them both with a 10 mm socket.

[The F.B.I]

hahah i knew that screw in the first pix had nothing to do with aiming hahah and i didnt think those things on the side where for aiming since there so far from the bulb, will it matter if theres no one in the driver side wile i aim cause the driver side sits lower then the passenger side headlight (may be broken)?

[4g63lover]

I need to adjust my headlights and cant quite understand this tut. does anyone have an updated tut for this? or can someone make one?? all i see are red x's.

[pinoyesv6]

the pictures are in the FSM.

[4g63lover]

the pictures are in the FSM.

FSM???

[pinoyesv6]

factory service manual

[RTV6]

I wan't to know if anyone can put a picture of the adjusting screws on the bulb sockets??

[99BabyBenz-aka Herb]

We really need a new tut for this.

But i got it
the screw closest to the rad is the up/down adjustement the one under the cover is left/right adjustement