Headlights Alignment

[BrettJ]

Does anyone have a guide how to align the headlights on metric S3?

[Jonathan Kay]

Discussion from 2019, with how to do it at home.

And a friendly MoT place will probably be happy for you to use their kit.

Jonathan

[BrettJ]

Thank you.

[ChrisC]

Be careful of the nut size, it's increased to 24mm on the 2019 supplied kits (actually earlier but don't have a date), if your looking to buy a crows foot spanner for the job.  Best to measure before you buy.

[BrettJ]

Thanks Chris, I hadn't even thought about that. Any recommendations of which make to purchase?

[Roger Ford]

I find a 21mm spanner works fine on the (older) nuts if you're careful to position it right. Many people try to use 22mm, which is more common, but they tend to slip. Not sure what the actual size is - I guessed they were Imperial, but the closest would be 7/8 which is 22.225mm, so I doubt that.

[alan c]

Cannot remember the size but I bought an offset ring spanner and cut a slot in it to adjust mine.