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Old 12-12-2018, 05:44 PM
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Best way to aim: park car aimed at a garage door pointed exactly perpendicular, about 20-30' away (if you have concrete drive you might have an expansion crack for a guide put front and back wheels right on.

Now measure the offset from the creak to the center of each low beam. Eg 10" and 45" from the crack. Mark that same offset on the garage door with tape.

Now measure up from the ground to the center of the beam coming out the light, and make another tape mark horizontally on the garage door: the trick being you must account for the angle of the driveway if not a flat ramp.

Set the center of the bright/dark transition of the DRIVERS side of each beam to the center of the "plus" of tape and left/right also center on the plus.

The passenger side will go higher than the plus.

When you back away the two beams will combine and you will see the obvious low/high side designed to not blind oncoming cars. It's NOT that the driver light aimed lower; BOTH lights output this low/high beam pattern.

To confirm/fine tune aim up/down, the best way is to park parallel to a long block wall or fence with a visible height reference, and confirm the bright transition is perfectly horizontal on the driver's side.




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