Hey all I drove my tsx last night for the first time since I got it 63000 km and noticed that the driver side HID points a little lower then the passenger side is this normal or do i need to readjust them ?

 

pics?

 

Sorry no pics ..I've read on a couple of different car brand forums that this is normal not to blind incoming traffic but whanted to know if any 2nd gen tsx owners have noticed this .. Will try to post pics soon

 

There is an inherent slope to HID projector beams but pics will determine whether or not it's the natural slope or you need to re-aim.

 

Pretty sure it's normal. I believe the drivers side is pointed a little lower to avoid blinding incoming traffic. Shouldn't be that much lower though. IIRC

 

its normal

 

both cutoff should be exactly the same./......its Not NORMAL

i posted the steps here for someone but its find the dot in center of headlight, thats the height.
now find a flat place with a wall. 25 feet from headlight to wall. same height as dot mark a tape line on wall. that is your cutoff line.

adjust one at a time.......then match them UP.



anything for oncoming is built into lens has nothing to do with setting height

 

My car is only a year old and the cut off is not identical between driver and passenger side. Driver side is slightly lower to not blind oncoming traffic, as someone mentioned above. AFAIK, this is how it's supposed to function.

 

that means nothing.



on a euro RHD model the cut offs are exactly opposite..........the scatter goes to the non driver side......




in the SERVICE MANUAL it shows them the same: I dont make this stuff UP sheesh.

 

If the your driver side cutoff is lower than the passenger side, it means you need to lose a few pounds; your lardass is tipping the car over.



But seriously. What robpp showed may be true but in my, and I'd presume most (if not all) other, brand new off the boat cars the driver side cutoff is a bit lower than the passenger.

But I have no emperical evidence to back that up. Just my observation and some conjecture.

 

haha funny!! i didn't notice if the lights were lower on the driver's side... i'll check it out and posted here as well

 

Purely my observation as well. I did not look at exactly 7.5m either, as suggested by the "service manual", nor do I plan to. From the distance I checked the cutoff at, there was a discrete (albeit not drastic) change in height between the passenger and driver cutoffs (passenger cutoff being higher). And no my car is not defective.

 

Not the best pick but you can see it's a little lower on the drivers side

 

I think robpp and the rest of us are in confusion based on terminology, but we're really all in agreement. The last image in the service manual shows a straight cutoff (cutoff being up to the masking tape line), but as you can also see from the same image, the leftmost side (the driver side) is a bit lower. Yes the RHD CU2s should have the opposite.

OP, your lights are fine.

 

robpp's comments are correct but not completely explained.

The figure on the top right of the page shows how to mark the centerline on a wall. The figure on the lower right clearly shows the cutoff designed into the housing.

There is a difference between cutoff and proper aim. Aim is when the housings are lined up as intended - this has nothing to do with cutoff.

The OPs photo is partially misleading as it is slanted and too close to the wall.

This exemplifies why one cannot just aim by sight. Manufacturers design their housing to be aimed either by machine or by measurement

 

Thanks for all the info guys ill consider this to be normal !!!

 

If the cut off does bother you, you can adjust it by tuning a bolt/knob behind the headlight unit. It looks like a silver bolt with teeth. Hope this helps!

 

Mine has been that way since day 1. Seems like it would be normal as to not blind oncoming traffic, and while the center points may be the same, I think the light pattern is different in the left light to the right light. Just my .02 Also if there wasn't a bush, you would see that the top cutoff is much longer to the right than it looks in the photo, so only a small "chunk" is missing from the left beam. Just like in the aiming photo from the manual.

 

NO! that does NOT adjust cutoff. It adjusts the headlamp aim.