Headlight beam low?

[Jackpilk]

With dipped beam on it's all nice and bright but not great distance wise (I know that's what full beams are for) With my old 172 I could drive round at night without really bothering with full beam but with my 182 it's bordering on dangerous. I've tried looking for a thread that covers this but had no luck so far. I've read that there's a sensor on the rear of the car and you can also manually adjust the headlights yourself. Anyone know of this or dealt with before? or is this just normal?

Thanks.

 

[Chris_786]

Bump for this, also have the same problems, since I fitted coilovers really....

 

[bennno2005]

Mine are the same, i thought it was just the way they were, i hear a lot of people try manually adjusting them and end up not being able to adjust them back down so i've just left mine.

 

[h4ml3t]

just adjust it up ?

 

[JackJack]

Take it to a garage and get them to check it on the mot ramp?

 

[Jackpilk]

Mine are the same, i thought it was just the way they were, i hear a lot of people try manually adjusting them and end up not being able to adjust them back down so i've just left mine.

Yep just done the exact thing, what a ball ache. Basically I tried to adjust them up manually with the allen key and was all going fine until I took it out for a drive and not kidding the lights were pointing up in the trees! so back home to bring them down and for the life of me they wouldn't go down, thought I buggered them for good, turns out that the ends popped off and jumped out of the adjuster, so after a lot of swearing and bleeding they were back in and adjusted.

They're now set up properly and a 100% improvement than before, I can see the road again!

The moral of the story is don't go mad on winding them up.

 

[Chris_786]

Fancy doing a guide?

 

[Jackpilk]

Might whip one up over the weekend if i'm not working, seems like a lot of people having the same issue.

 

[Chris_786]

Might whip one up over the weekend if i'm not working, seems like a lot of people having the same issue.

your a Star!:approve:

 

[Kizza9]

You could always move the adjuster bit for the headlights thats next to the steering wheel all the way up, then go to the headlights, have them switched on when you adjust them so you can see how far up they go. if you look at the headlight from inside the engine bay there will be a little slot where the allen key goes into just turn that and adjust it up. once done go out for a test drive and if its a little bit too high you can use the adjuster next to the steering wheel to lower it a bit

 

[Tyler@Ultimate]

You could always move the adjuster bit for the headlights thats next to the steering wheel all the way up, then go to the headlights, have them switched on when you adjust them so you can see how far up they go. if you look at the headlight from inside the engine bay there will be a little slot where the allen key goes into just turn that and adjust it up. once done go out for a test drive and if its a little bit too high you can use the adjuster next to the steering wheel to lower it a bit

With xeons light you don't have a adjust switch next to the steering wheel and they are auto leveling

 

[Kizza9]

That is true, I was thinking back to my mk2 ph1 1.4 days, plus having a cup lol