When lowering your car, do the headlights need to be re-aimed?

Since the car is being lowered a couple of inches, won't the headlights be aiming a little low?

Will the headlights need to be aimed a little higher to compensate for the differenece from stock height?

 

I didn't do mine with the A-spec set up, because the drop was even, but now with the FLEXes, the front came down more than the rear, so I felt they were aimed a little low.

 

so you reaimed them? how exactly is that done?

 

Hmmmm.....I was thinking the same thing last night driving home. It looks like the headlights are aimed a little low now, but there was still someone who thought I was high beaming them, LOL

 

yes, they need to be reaimed. I redid mine for both my prokit and tein's. its an easy process, just pop the hood and look on the radiator cover. you'll see some arrows going in a circle on the left and right side. stick a socket or screwdriver in there and turn it up or down.

the biggest problem w/ lowering w/ the headlights is you aren't adjusting just the height of the beams back, you're changing the angle. so at stock if your beams were straight ahead they be bright at 25ft and go towards the ground, but when you're lower to be bright at 25ft you beams need to be angled up, in which case they're projecting even farther. After dropping very low I had the beams near stock at 25ft, but at 100-200ft they were illuminating overhead highway signs b/c the beam keeps going at an upward angle.

 

what reference do you use to raise them to to know the proper hight to set them at cause I need to set my JDM headlights somewhat cause so far I just put them in and left them where they were at and they are really low

 

I remember when I had to adjust the aftermarket headlights on my Civic. I just went to flat surface with a wall. Like a parking garage. I then measured the height of the top and bottom of the beam with my stock headlights.

Then after I put the new headlights on. I went to the exact same spot and parked the exact same distance from the wall and set them to the same height as I had previously measured on the stocks.

Hopefully you guys can do the same with the TSX. Good luck.

 

yeah, or just use trial and error. Turn them up, and drive at night, if you still need them higher just turn them again But of course this is a more precise method