Difference between revisions of "VW Electrics Headlight Adjustment"
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For reference (and by all means set them up on a wall using the 25 feet model or even let your local garage check them), below photo is where the 'kicks' should be and the cutoff points on an average flat road (along the blue line) to ensure you can see but not blind other drivers. The kick on the left is to help pick out signs etc, and should start at the kerb edge. The right kick should start at centre line of road, on the right the beam needs to be below eye level of oncoming traffic. May help anyone trying to set them up from scratch and get them right. You only have to look at height of the beams then. Headlight aligners simply get you to that point and quite a few set them too high I've found. You should NOT be lighting up the backs of drivers heads. Set them like this and they will pass alignment check. | |||
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Revision as of 18:18, 28 March 2015
Round headlight adjustment
(Penned by Covkid)
This article is for round headlight adjustment only although the principles should apply for square headlights too.
If you remove front grill you will see two adjustment screws at the positions shown by the coloured dots in photo below. Red denotes vertical (up & down) adjustment and blue denotes lateral (side to side) adjustment.
For reference (and by all means set them up on a wall using the 25 feet model or even let your local garage check them), below photo is where the 'kicks' should be and the cutoff points on an average flat road (along the blue line) to ensure you can see but not blind other drivers. The kick on the left is to help pick out signs etc, and should start at the kerb edge. The right kick should start at centre line of road, on the right the beam needs to be below eye level of oncoming traffic. May help anyone trying to set them up from scratch and get them right. You only have to look at height of the beams then. Headlight aligners simply get you to that point and quite a few set them too high I've found. You should NOT be lighting up the backs of drivers heads. Set them like this and they will pass alignment check.
