need help adjusting beam pattern
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need help adjusting beam pattern
i used the instructions from a link that someone posted for me and i did the step thingy w/ the beam pattern, but when i drive on the road, the left light seems very short in distance compared to the right. does anyone have pictures of their beam pattern and adjustments? thanx
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This is what you want to see...
Even though in this shot, the left looks a little lower than the right (It actually is I think)You want both to be the same level.
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/11170/pattern.jpg">
<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/11170/pattern.jpg">
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Are you kidding? I am **** about things like that.. I spent 3 hours aiming my lights..
and I re aim them every time I take one out (for whatever reason) and even check the aim when I change my tires each season.
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Actually, I think both of your should have the right side up one "increment"
so that there's one continous stepped line moving up and to the right. The right light is supposed to be higher than the left to illuminate the roadside and signs, etc.
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sounds like me. I have "corrected" them many times over as well. I'm always looking at where the
lines are cutting off... on the back of people's cars/mirrors, sides of the road, the distance in front of me, etc. etc. Ben (aka BRK) and I spent a lot of time aiming our lights when we put in his Xenon Euros and my Euros (I want the Xenon upgrade!) the same night. Currently, I think I need to raise them up a bit since changing to the winter wheels/tires and he's blinding everyone! ha, ha --- sorry Ben, if you're reading this.
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hhmmm...... well, with them aimed as in my pic, the right light projected is higher. I know it
doesn't appear that way on the fence at a close-up shot, but as I pull back, the right is higher. As a matter of fact, I just drove for about 2 hours on the PA Tp last night and my right one does project higher than the left. Personally, I'd like to raise them both equally to keep the same pattern, but project a little farther. I'm not blinding anyone :-)