Headlight Aiming - Again (sorry)

[www.XenonDepot.com]

Sorry to post this again but I just cant find the thread.
I'm looking for that thread that includes the pictures for headlight adjusting on the RSX.

If anyone has a clue as to where it is I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,

STeve

[KevinG]

If you look behind the lights you will see two white gears, the gears on the outermost part of the car are the ones to aim up the low beams. You stick a phillips screwdriver in the slot and turn the gear to the left to raise the beam, or to the right to lower the beam.

[PimpDaddyKABZ]

a little confused

www.XenonDepot.com - I thought you were like a rep for the company? are you not? If not, why do you have that blatant plug as your username? Because you're asking questions about HID's, etc. and it seems like you just got some, but you've had this username for so long WITHOUT them? :dontknow:
Anyways, just curious.

[SuPrA TT PiNOi]

where do you want the low beams pointing to get the most light output?

[Bo_Vien]

Hey Steve

You can also just use an 8mm socket and wrench to adjust the headlights. As KevinG pointed out, there are these adjustable gears, which are attached to an 8mm bolt. Clockwise to aim up and CClockwise to aim down. Very easy.
http://home.attbi.com/~polo437/aim.jpg

BTW, your 5K kit is da bomb on my car. :thumbsup: I'm very pleased. If I can make a suggestion though, I'd add the following to your kit or at least mention in the instructions. The 3 holes on the bottom of the headlight assembly accept screws with #8 diameter and 3/4" long. The screws that came with the kit were kinda big, so I went to Home Depot and got myself 6 screws and some galvanized flashing to attach the ballast to the headlights.

[SpeeDemoN]

Ok I posted another thread about this but nobody replied....my question is this.....

Is there any way to adjust the low beam without affecting the high beam. I adjusted using the outer most gear and it lowered everything. There is a gear for up/down, and one for right/left

[www.XenonDepot.com]

Thanks everyone!

PimpDaddyKABZ- I just installed a set of HIDs on an RSX (not my own).

KevinG - Glad you're happy! The screws that come with the kit are self tapping. Most cars need those screws as there are no OEM holes that the ballast can simply screw into. Also, Could I get you to send me that pic - ITS AWESOME!

Bo_Vien - Thanks for the pics man!

Regards,

Steve

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1 more thing,

As SpeeDemoN posted, is the high beam affected when adjusting the low beam or is it a completely different switch.

Thanks again,

Steve

[jjm004]

The high beam adjustment is separate.
Notice in the picture Bo_Vien posted where it says "Do not Adjust" I believe that is where the high beam can be adjusted.

Its tough to adjust the low beam on the drivers side with the battery in the way.

[SpeeDemoN]

are you sure thats not the left / right?

[jjm004]

Originally posted by SpeeDemoN
Ok I posted another thread about this but nobody replied....my question is this.....

Is there any way to adjust the low beam without affecting the high beam. I adjusted using the outer most gear and it lowered everything. There is a gear for up/down, and one for right/left

I think you adjusted the gear that the picture says "Do not adjust". I now know why you arent suppose to adjust it.
Try the other gear.:)

[SuPrA TT PiNOi]

can anyone plz answer my question i asked earlier of "where do you want to adjust the low beams so that you get the most light output while driving?" thx.

[PimpDaddyKABZ]

Originally posted by www.XenonDepot.com
Thanks everyone!

PimpDaddyKABZ- I just installed a set of HIDs on an RSX (not my own).


so you DO work for the company?

[SpeeDemoN]

Bo_Vien

Is the bolt that you adjusted in between the 2 "circles" of our headlight?

[Bo_Vien]

Hang on.. let me go take a picture of the bolt. BRB.

[SpeeDemoN]

k thanks

[allenP]

When you adjust that screw it moves the whole housing thing up or down, so if you adjust the low beams you adjust the high beams, I don't know what the other thing is for.

[jjm004]

Originally posted by SuPrA TT PiNOi
can anyone plz answer my question i asked earlier of "where do you want to adjust the low beams so that you get the most light output while driving?" thx.

Measure the height of the headlights. The lights should reflect 52mm (2.1 in) below headlight height

[Bo_Vien]

Okay, here we go.

Look into the middle hole for the left headlight.
http://home.attbi.com/~polo437/left1.jpg
http://home.attbi.com/~polo437/left2.jpg

Look into the innermost hole for the right headlight.
http://home.attbi.com/~polo437/right1.jpg
http://home.attbi.com/~polo437/right2.jpg

[Bo_Vien]

Originally posted by allenP
When you adjust that screw it moves the whole housing thing up or down, so if you adjust the low beams you adjust the high beams, I don't know what the other thing is for.

Really? Weird.. I didn't notice my highbeam moving up or down. I guess I'll have to check again.

[SpeeDemoN]

Yep ..... those are the ones I adjusted, and it moved both the high beam and the low beam....

[SpeeDemoN]

Thanks for the pics :)

[SpeeDemoN]

I don't really care all that much i guess.....the HID looks good and that's all I really care about!!!!!!

[Bo_Vien]

No problem, SpeeDemoN. but I am a little concerned about my highbeams not aimed properly. :dontknow:

[SpeeDemoN]

Yup, thats why I was concerned too!!! it would be nice to have separate adjusting screws for high/low!!!

[WarmPepsi]

k, i went through and cleaned up the mess, please try to stick to the topic and save the flames for the OT forum.... thx.

[quang]

you cannot adjust highbeams seperate from low beams.. WHY? you ask.. cause if u open up the headlights.. u will see that the housing or cup for the highbeam is connected to the lowbeam cup.. it is ONE PEICE.. so there for u have to adjust both of them...

btw? why would you adjust the highbeams seperately?? highbeams dont have direction or a specific "beam" that u can make out.. when you turn them on, they just light everything up they can.. thats why they are "high beams"...

[ktun]

How sensitive is the screw for aiming anyways?? How many revolutions do I have to turn it? So far I have turned the screw like half a revolution and I am not seeing noticeable aim...

[KevinG]

you will have to turn it alot to make a noticable difference. Point the beams on a garage door for reference, thats the best way to do it IMO.

[DS-RSX]

i have a question , since we know how to aim low/high beam, but can we do aim "left/right" for our car?:dontknow: if yes, which bolt??...thx

[SpeeDemoN]

Originally posted by quang
you cannot adjust highbeams seperate from low beams.. WHY? you ask.. cause if u open up the headlights.. u will see that the housing or cup for the highbeam is connected to the lowbeam cup.. it is ONE PEICE.. so there for u have to adjust both of them...

btw? why would you adjust the highbeams seperately?? highbeams dont have direction or a specific "beam" that u can make out.. when you turn them on, they just light everything up they can.. thats why they are "high beams"...

In Canada, we have daytime running lights. Basically, it's our high beams constantly turned on, but at half power, so they don't look very bright.

Basically, there is a beam pattern and it's very noticable against a wall or garage door! You probably don't notice it but there is a really obvious one with DRL's. And it is a "high" beam, noticably higher than the low beam.

High meaning its located on top, as well as brighter.

[Hardee]

Hey, this is really confusing me?
The black and white diagram shows a totally different
adjustment screw than that of the pics posted?
Can anybody clarify this please?

[Hardee]

bump? can anybody answer my question?

[KevinG]

Just turn the gear on the back of the headlamp with a phillips screwdriver. Left for up, right for down.

[SpeeDemoN]

The black and white diagram threw me off as well, take a look at the pics posted....follow those pics and you'll be ok

[mvyvoda]

so, you don't have to take off the bumper/headlights to adjust this.... that damn diagram in the service manual confusing and i'm an engineer :confused:

[www.XenonDepot.com]

Hello,

No, I dont believe you need to take your bumper off. You simply need to turn a screw. Its kinda hard to explain without a pic though.....

Where is that thread..........

[mvyvoda]

Originally posted by quang
you cannot adjust highbeams seperate from low beams.. WHY? you ask.. cause if u open up the headlights.. u will see that the housing or cup for the highbeam is connected to the lowbeam cup.. it is ONE PEICE.. so there for u have to adjust both of them...

btw? why would you adjust the highbeams seperately?? highbeams dont have direction or a specific "beam" that u can make out.. when you turn them on, they just light everything up they can.. thats why they are "high beams"...

people here are saying that you can't adjust the high beams separate from the low beams. then why in the service manual below are there two separate gears?

my low beams are in the right spot, but my high beams are fucked up. this is why i am concerned...

[43%burnt]

nm

[SpeeDemoN]

Originally posted by mvyvoda
people here are saying that you can't adjust the high beams separate from the low beams. then why in the service manual below are there two separate gears?

my low beams are in the right spot, but my high beams are fucked up. this is why i am concerned...

The other gear is for adjusting the headlight right and left.

1 gear: up and down
1 gear: right and left

If you look really really closely you'll see near the headlight adjustment gears, little arrows that say U/D, and L/R

[Reyngel]

Originally posted by SpeeDemoN
The other gear is for adjusting the headlight right and left.

1 gear: up and down
1 gear: right and left

If you look really really closely you'll see near the headlight adjustment gears, little arrows that say U/D, and L/R

Can you confirm this? Because wouldn't this mean that all you'd have to do is adjust the L/R gear on the JDM's, and the whole "blinding other people because the lights are meant for driving on the left side of the road" problem would be solved, right? And yet, for some reason, no one else with JDM's has posted that they solved the problem, other than by just aiming them down, which doesn't really solve the problem... just makes it less irritating to other drivers. So...?

CAN ANYONE WITH JDM'S take some pics of the headlight's beam-adjustment gears?? I want to see if there truly is a left-right gear. Cause if there is, I'll buy the JDM's instead of doing the DIY method, since I'll have confirmation that I can solve the blinding problem.

I posted yesterday, trying to find the answer to this stupid ass question, but didn't get any responses. Everyone with JDM's says that they had to aim their beams down to not blind people. But if there really is a left-right gear, then why didn't they just use that, instead??

[SpeeDemoN]

I believe that the beam is angled differently on the JDM lights...

They are angled like this: \ \

OEM lights are like this: / /

Even though they are ANGLED differently, they are still aimed STRAIGHT ahead!!!

[mvyvoda]

Originally posted by Reyngel
Can you confirm this? Because wouldn't this mean that all you'd have to do is adjust the L/R gear on the JDM's, and the whole "blinding other people because the lights are meant for driving on the left side of the road" problem would be solved, right? And yet, for some reason, no one else with JDM's has posted that they solved the problem, other than by just aiming them down, which doesn't really solve the problem... just makes it less irritating to other drivers. So...?

CAN ANYONE WITH JDM'S take some pics of the headlight's beam-adjustment gears?? I want to see if there truly is a left-right gear. Cause if there is, I'll buy the JDM's instead of doing the DIY method, since I'll have confirmation that I can solve the blinding problem.

I posted yesterday, trying to find the answer to this stupid ass question, but didn't get any responses. Everyone with JDM's says that they had to aim their beams down to not blind people. But if there really is a left-right gear, then why didn't they just use that, instead??


and people with the USD ones too :rolleyes:

[mvyvoda]

damn peoples, there are a ton of people who have the JDM headlights

i am so fuckin' jealous. damn money

[Reyngel]

Originally posted by mvyvoda
and people with the USD ones too :rolleyes:

Don't get sarcastic. There are people who say that the JDM ones have different adjusting gears than the USD ones.

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I wish I knew the answer to this headlight aiming thingy however I honestly do not know 100%.


Steve

[Jasonoff]

My JDM lights are misaimed too. I just quickly pointed them slightly downward temporarily. LOL but it's been like that for 6 months now, I should really fix them.

I can confirm that the high/low are adjusted at the same time, and the other adjustment screw is for left/right adjustment. Although it's really hard to notice the left/right movement.

Speedemon is correct on the JDM lights. The beam pattern is slanted differently

USDM = ______/

JDM = \_____

It angles up like that to reflect road signs and what not.

mvyvoda: That pic i was going to take for you is in the beginning of this thread.

[Reyngel]

Jasonoff, thanks for confirming it. Let us know if you ever decide to fix the lights properly by using the left/right gear. I'm really curious if the left-right gear can solve the problem or not. Maybe if you sit there and turn the gear for a long time, it will slowly but surely straighten itself out. :D

[Jasonoff]

Here's a picture to avoid some confusion. This is how the beam pattern would look like between the two if you shined it them against a wall. You can make the left side go up and down left right, same with the right side.

[Reyngel]

Hmm. Because it's diagonal, one would think that it is impossible to level it out with only up-down and left-right gears, right? I mean, if you have the JDM beam,

\____

then you want to make the \ part to be ___, right? And for sign-illumination, you'd want the right side of the pattern, the __ part, to look like __/, basically changing the JDM beam pattern into the OEM beam, correct? But it seems impossible to straighten the left side out and angle the right side, since the up-down gear only moves the beam up and down, and the left-right gear only moves the beam left and right, obviously. There isn't a gear that sorta, rotates the beam. And wouldn't you need such a gear to correctly aim the headlights for U.S. standards?

Like, my thinking is that you'd need to rotate the driver's side headlight beam 45 degrees counter-clockwise so that it is level, and not diagonal. Then you'd need to also rotate the passenger's side headlight beam 45 degrees counter-clockwise to make it diagonal for sign illumination. This is freakin confusing. :mad:

[mvyvoda]

alright jasonoff... but in your pictures in the beginning of the thread where is the gear where it says "do not adjust?"

thanks,
-m

[chiller]

Can anyone tell me how i can get to the adjustment for the left/right? That gear seems to be below a metal brace, and i don't know how i would get to it.

[mvyvoda]

Originally posted by chiller
Can anyone tell me how i can get to the adjustment for the left/right? That gear seems to be below a metal brace, and i don't know how i would get to it.

and if someone could post a picture of it! that would rule

thanks,
-m

[Reyngel]

Yeah, I'd like to see a picture too, please. :)

[Scottie]

so through the holes that bo vien is talking about, you can stick a screw driver in there and turn it counterclockwise in order to lower the low-beam height?

[RSX_Sx228]

yea i would like to know where the grear is to adjust L/R position also