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Old 02-28-2008, 12:05 AM
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HID Aiming (Again)

Sorry about bring this back... I have read very much everything at forum about headlight aiming, including one from Daniel Stern http://www.danielsternlighting.com/nhtsa/NHTSA.html

Unfortunately w/ all these reading, I still dont get a sense of a good way aiming the HID, w/o going back to dealer. Has anyone at the forum able to achieve this?

BTW, my x5 is 2001. xeon right side - i think its ok (was aiming toward right for some weird reason) xeon left - low. right highbeam - ok. left highbeam -ok
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Old 02-28-2008, 12:16 AM
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imo, the beam should not be higher than being parallel to the headlights from about 200 feet away
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Old 02-29-2008, 01:00 AM
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my high beams are parallel to the ground. its the xeon (low beam) thats are out of alignment. driver side seems "ok" but the right side xeon point to the ground. the self-level motor at the lights are seems ok (see like move up/down at start up)
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Old 02-29-2008, 01:12 AM
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you can adjust the beam with knobs located behind the headlight housing.

those knobs 'normalize' the height, the auto leveling adjusts according to that position.
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ya i know about those knobs and i used them to aligne the high-beam, to make sure they point straight. when the low beam engaged, the left low beam seems to be ok. the right low beams seems to be "low" i do notices the auto leveling is working. its just the right low beams pointing to the floor driving me nut. is there a way to "de-cuping" the adjustment to let me adjust my right xeon low beam independently from the right high beam??
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