different kind of headlight adjustment?
different kind of headlight adjustment?
so i finally got around to taking my car apart to replace my drivers side parking light bulb(which still doesn't work for some unknown reason), and decided i'd just replace my high, fog, turn, and park bulbs at the same time. before i reassembled the car i checked to make sure everything was working(sans DR parking light), not thinking i should open up the garage door and shine the lights on the building across the street to check the aim. as luck would have it, they are a bit out of whack.
my drivers side headlight/high beam seems to be fine, but my passengers side high/low is all wrong. at 20 or so feet the passengers side high beam "hot spot" has moved a good deal towards the center of the car, and the passengers side low beam kinda ramps up towards the far right. note: i am not referring to the proper step up that is supposed to occur near the middle. the low beam kinda "curls" up on the far right. its not a flat/diagonal curve. at 20ish feet, its flat all the way across the drivers side, then the step near the middle, then flat again for about 50-75% across the passenger, then a sharp curve up about 3-4 feet. even weirder is that i didn't touch the HID low beams.
now i'm hoping that the problem is that my passenger side headlight is just aimed too far towards the center of the car, and that I've never noticed the curve because it was always out of my line of sight. my first thought is to try and aim the whole lamp out a few degrees and see what happens. otherwise, perhaps i need to adjust the high beam out, and rotate the low beam, if any of this is even possible?
i googled around to figure out how to adjust the headlights, but all i could find was adjusting the up/down level, nothing mentioning left/right or rotational adjustment.
any help would be greatly appreciated
note: i have attached a crude, exaggerated image of the driver point of view.
the red line is the center line of the car
the blue circles are the high beam hot spots
the rest should be self explanitory
my drivers side headlight/high beam seems to be fine, but my passengers side high/low is all wrong. at 20 or so feet the passengers side high beam "hot spot" has moved a good deal towards the center of the car, and the passengers side low beam kinda ramps up towards the far right. note: i am not referring to the proper step up that is supposed to occur near the middle. the low beam kinda "curls" up on the far right. its not a flat/diagonal curve. at 20ish feet, its flat all the way across the drivers side, then the step near the middle, then flat again for about 50-75% across the passenger, then a sharp curve up about 3-4 feet. even weirder is that i didn't touch the HID low beams.
now i'm hoping that the problem is that my passenger side headlight is just aimed too far towards the center of the car, and that I've never noticed the curve because it was always out of my line of sight. my first thought is to try and aim the whole lamp out a few degrees and see what happens. otherwise, perhaps i need to adjust the high beam out, and rotate the low beam, if any of this is even possible?
i googled around to figure out how to adjust the headlights, but all i could find was adjusting the up/down level, nothing mentioning left/right or rotational adjustment.
any help would be greatly appreciated
note: i have attached a crude, exaggerated image of the driver point of view.
the red line is the center line of the car
the blue circles are the high beam hot spots
the rest should be self explanitory
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