Improving Halogen Headlights .

I was one of the unfortunate ones who could not order Bixenon headlights last year. So I was lumbered with Halogen ones.

I have already done a bulb swap to whiter ones (one of which has failed recentley ), so i ended up putting the standard candle power HB3 bulbs back in.

At this point I realised there was a problem as I could not see the road at all as the lights were so bad, on closer investigation I found that my headlights were totally miss aligned , the car actually looked cross eyed.

The passenger side projector beam was pointing fully left hard up against its aluminium ring surround & the drivers side was pointing skyward. So basically I had no light on the road , they were terrible.

So I set about adjusting them the best I could do, until the car gets to the main dealer.

Its a simple process, that has made a big improvement.

You have two green adjusters on each light , the top adjuster controls right & left movement, the bottom adjuster controls up & down. I just used a hex socket & rachet for adjustment to get the pointing at the road .

Lower Drivers side adjuster


With ratchet in place


Projector beam alignment


Be carful not to adjust them as it blinds on coming traffic, even though that would be very hard using the terrible standard bulbs.

I have now fitted Ring Xenon ultima bulbs to replace the standard ones as well, they are an improvement.

Next week I will be fitting a HId convertion.

your car needs to be washed, rinced and dried!!!
shame shame shame
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