Headlight Alignment

[BM]

Does anyone know if I can line up my headlights by parking my car "x" distance from the wall of my garage. If so how far from the wall, and at what what height should each beam be?

[Ozzy]

Why don't you just pop down to your local garage! My local set mine up, for the princely sum of £5 😬

 

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[Sandy]

Distance shouldnt be that critical - I did mine by lining up the tin top about 2 metres from the garage doors, marking the centres of the beams on the door and the position of the light/ bumper on the driveway. Then I put the 7 in the same position and adjusted until the lights fell on the same marks.

 

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[rj]

Sandy,

 

The only way that'll work is if the centers of the headlights are at exactly the same hight on both cars.

 

Imagine that the height of the tintops headlamp is at 60cm, the Caterham at 55cm. If you then adjust the light to be at the same level the Cat will enlighten the Moon!

 

In general the light has to fall by one percent, some cars even 1.2%...

 

 

/regin

[Mick Day]

Get them set up at a garage, shouldn't cost too much. Then put the car a car's length away from the wall & mark on the ground the 4 wheels & also the beam cut-off points on the wall. Easy to check another time then.

 

I have a tandem double garage so my marks are on the inside of the door.

[stevefoster]

Easy to do against the wall. I even have a .jpg with the measurments.

I've done this with the 7, a Citroen ZX and a Passat and they all passed without

the tester wanting to adjust them...

 

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