How Do You Adjust The Headlights?

[hyper]

I am trying to adjust the headlights on my av. the up down adjustment is pretty easy to find but where is the side to side adjustment?

 

[gandolphxx]

I think the collective wisdom is "there ain't no horizontal adjustments" - just the vertical that you have found.

 

[hyper]

Yes i discovered that earlier today. I removed the whole headlight assembly. That was easy in itself. The only thing that holds the headlight assembly are two allen wrench looking retaining pins. kind on a whimpy looking setup in my opinion. I just find it hard to believe that there is no horizontal adjustment. Stuff like headlights need to be adjusted properly. Just my rant.

I never really paid that much attention on how that headlights were adjusted before my av was wrecked. the one on the right appears ok the one on the left appears to shoot off to the right just a little. I don't notice it on high beam just on low beam. I just hope my av is not tracking sideways down the road. I would really hate that.

 

[hyper]

I drove my daughters car yesterday evening and its headlights are aligned very similar to the av. The light on the driver side appears fine on high beam but when set to low beam it appears to point slightly toward the other light.

I realize the bulbs have two elements one for low and the the other for high beam and that one element is in front of the other one. With one element being in front of the other that would change the reflective angle for the high and low beams.

Here is the question. Are the reflective surfaces on the left headlight assembly machined slightly different than than the surfaces on the right assembly. Therefore letting the the left light on low beam point slightly to the right?

 

[KeninPa]

Here is the question. ?Are the reflective surfaces on the left headlight assembly machined slightly different than than the surfaces on the right assembly. ?Therefore letting the the left light on low beam point slightly to the right?

Yes, & Yes. The driver's side low beam is pointed inward - so as not to blind oncoming traffic.

Both my beams do appear slightly low and may need vertical adjustment. I guess they expect us to carry enought weight in the back to level the AV.

 

[jstrickl]

If you upgrade your stock bulbs, you will notice the alignment right away. As soon as I put SilverStars in my Av, I could see the mis-alignment. I simoply grabbed a T-15 (torx bit) and parked about 10 feet from my garage door. I then brought the right beam up to where the left beam was. Switch to brights and then adjusted them again. Back to lows. Re-adjusted one last time and they are all pretty tight now.

Jamie

 

[Jodiesel]

I know this a pretty old thread, but......I've searched the manual on my 03 AV, and can't find the section as to how far away from a wall and how high the beam is supposed to be adjusted too. Anyone have that spec handy?

 

[Tree_Hugger]

24 feet
Mark a cross on the wall at the exact height and center of the headlights.
Center of dipped beams should be 4 inches below and slightly to the right of the centers of the cross.
Center of hight beam should be on center of the cross.
HTH

 

[Jodiesel]

Thanks for the spec's, Tree Hugger....hmmm, here on the West coast, tree hugger has a definition that is probably different than what you intended....

 

[Tree_Hugger]

Jodiesel,

The name comes from my first serious off-roading trip in my Jeep. We were coming back down a steep rocky wet trail from PowerLine Hill on Monteagle Mountain here in Tennessee. My butt was severely clenched, and I pressed harder on the brake pedal, unfortunately the edge of my shoe caught the accelerator, and I zoomed off the side of the trail....
It was a 30% downslope of mud and loose rocks heading towards a 100 foot drop off about 50 yards away..
I had NO chance of stopping, and very little control. I DID notice a nice fat tree a little off to the right of my trajectory, and I managed to veer over enough to hit it dead center! Bent my bumper and pushed my winch into my front clip, but no other damage!
When my new wheeling budies got down to me, they were amazed to find me alive and unhurt - but HUGGING THAT TREE.

My Insurance Agent thanked me for hitting the tree, he said it was the first time he'd ever done that

 

[bmontini]

Keep in mind that in some states, headlight adjustment is only to be done by "state Inspectors" and qualified mechanics. There is some very expensive equipment that is used for this purpose, but the "crosshairs" sound about right!!

 

[TulsaAV]

I put silverstars in this weekend, and the low's are fine but now my driver's side high beam is high. Any suggestions? Also, when I pulled my stock bulbs, I had three Phillips and one Sylvania. Go figure.

 

[Davi]

Yes, & Yes. The driver's side low beam is pointed inward - so as not to blind oncoming traffic.

Both my beams do appear slightly low and may need vertical adjustment. I guess they expect us to carry enought weight in the back to level the AV.

 

[Gg05]

24 feet
Mark a cross on the wall at the exact height and center of the headlights.
Center of dipped beams should be 4 inches below and slightly to the right of the centers of the cross.
Center of hight beam should be on center of the cross.
HTH

Thanks Tree hugger, just so I understand correctly at 24 feet away approximately how high off the ground should the beams be?