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Old 08-28-2004, 08:56 PM
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headlight angle adjustment?

how do you adjust the headlight angle? any method i should follow? let me know. thanks.
Old 08-28-2004, 11:39 PM
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??

we can do that? how about on an '00?
Old 08-28-2004, 11:44 PM
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Open the hood, there should be what look like plastic gears behind your headlights.

Check the owners manual, it tells you which gears are horizontal and which are vertical.
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Originally Posted by gotbeef
how do you adjust the headlight angle? any method i should follow? let me know. thanks.
yeah i did this last week...open your hood you'll see a (i think 8 or 10MM) nut....attached to a round metal "gear like looking" thing. I forget now which direction aims it up...i used the little wording on the HL that has an arrow which says: U<--->D.......Up and down......but the direction i turned it (up) wasn't up...it was down...so just do one at a time and see what's goin on. It's really awesome though, i can see EVERYTHING now....enjoy, hope this helps. -shawn


EDIT: oh BTW, before i did this, i looked in the manual it said to have an ACURA CERTIFIED TECH do this ......lol...
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dont play with factory adjustments man, you'll NEVER get it the same again
Old 09-10-2004, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by heehaaw
dont play with factory adjustments man, you'll NEVER get it the same again


i'm still trying to get back to the way they were when i got the car.
Old 09-10-2004, 10:55 AM
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You can adjust your lights up and down but I don't think left and right. After I cleared my lights, I had to adjust them again. One way is the wall method, by parking your car on a flat area and shining it on a wall and leveling it that way. I took mine to an empty parking lot, parked far away from the other side and pointed them slight up so it shines out further. It's a bitch for other drivers, but it clears up the road for me. Then I took it to a wall and leveled them out.
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That is one of the biggest (if not only) gripes I have about HID's, they have a very difinitive line at the top edge of the beam. I'm gonna set mine up a bit too. I keep thinking I'm not gonna see a deer or other quadruped in time.
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Originally Posted by heehaaw
dont play with factory adjustments man, you'll NEVER get it the same again

LOL... If people on this forum left things to Factory specs there would be nothing to talk about.
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anybody got pictures? i could go look under the hood but... that would make me too industrious...
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