Aiming Euro Lights....

[Bernie Benz]

I¹ve done so as follows:

Find a poorly lighted parking garage with level floor and solid vertical
wall and having an expansion joint in the floor perpendicular to the wall.
Align and position the car (driver¹s side tires) with the joint, headlights
20¹ from wall. Using your tape as a plumb bob, chalk mark a joint vertical
extension line up the wall. Snap a horizontal chalk line on the wall in
front of the car at the height of the headlight CL less 3². (Only the low
beams are adjusted, the highs following the low adjustment. Good highs, the
hot spot should be centered on the center X of each HL, but not adjustable)
Measure distances from joint to horizontal HL CL and transfer these
distances into vertical CL marks across the horizontal aim line. That¹s the
setup.

Adust one headlight at a time with the other one covered. The low beam
shadow line should fall on the H line and the step up or angle up transition
point of the shadow line should fall on the vertical CL for each HL.

Bernie   

> From: Derek Pulvino <dbpulvino at hotmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:58:44 -0700
> To: 200q20v at audifans.com
> Subject: Aiming Euro Lights....
> 
> So how has everyone else with Euro lights aimed their headlights?
> Way back when upon installation, I used the guidelines that Bentley
> provided for aiming the headlights (ie measuring height on a wall,
> being a certain distance from said wall, etc).
> 
> Now I know that the projection pattern is different between the Euro
> and the 'merican headlights...so the aiming guidelines should (?) be
> different, but I don't have anything else to go off of besides what's
> in the Bentley.  All that said...based on how often I get "flashed,"
> me thinks this is not the best method to use.
> 
> ..so what have others used as a guide for aiming Euro lights, and
> what have your roadway impressions been?
> 
> Derek P
> 
> PS, I only use the 55w/60w (or whatever it is) halogen bulbs, not the
> 100w combo.
> 
> 
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