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Update: You can aim the JDM headlights!

Discussion in 'Exterior' started by Ninety Four, Feb 2, 2006.

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    Ninety Four New Member

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    Update: You can aim the JDM headlights!

    First you'll have to completely uninstall the headlights. Now, if you look on the back of the headlight housing, there are two brass knobs with a place for a Phillips head screwdriver in the middle of each one. Turn them. I've forgotten which one adjusts vertical vs. horizontal aim, but just play around with them. The point is they do adjust the aim of the headlights and very well I might add! I got some Sylvania Cool Blue bulbs and the brightness and beam pattern are great! I can see much better than with the stock headlights.

    The improved light from my headlights, combined with the foglights I bought from hookedup96rolla give me a lot of confidence when driving at night, because my lights light up the entire road.

    I discovered the aiming function because I was cleaning the headlights. One of my Nokya bulbs literally exploded inside the JDM headlight housing, so I had to get all the pieces of glass out of there. Anyway, don't buy Nokya bulbs. I'm glad that happened though, because otherwise I would never have figured out how to aim these headlights.

    You guys with the JDM headligths should try this though.
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    hehe, dont mean to razz you but you didn't know thats how you adjust them? hehe

    i will say that the aftermarket lights seem to point much cleaner than the oem ones.
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    I have them and didnt know how to adjust them:p
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    even though i adjust them it still wont give me a good lighting...i knew about the aiming awhile back but it still give bad lighting ....mine gives off a beam of light to the top left ...just wondering if urs r like that too...ill have a pic be tonight to show u guy...

    -Ninety Four my nokya light blub almost burst too but i caught it in time n i didnt burst.. it was just mess up like all out of shape
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    So whats different from this and the oem headlights adjustements? Placement of the knobs?
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    WTF, my Koito Toyota headlights are adjustable using a 8mm socket and you can clearly see the adjustment knobs.
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    you need to just go away... lol

    they should be the same... the after market ones i have tho are so much smoother in the adjustment
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    I take it you didnt know how to adjust your stock headlights either...?
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    Does yours have a screw like this? Mine does, this is how I made mine aim higher.
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    i got OEM headlight housing, but since i got my HID kit maybe i should re-aim them a bit, people try to blind me with their highbeams once in a while, and i just turn my highbeams on, and since they are HID's the blind the living crap out of the people, some even swirve a little
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    I knew how to on my stock lights. Ive never had a need to adjust my lights, either set, they both have lit the street just fine. Thanks for the smartass comment though.



    No, this is what mine look like:

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    rolla_7AFE hmong

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    here is the beam im saying
    is just wanna knoe if its only mine or it is suppose to be like that
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    original
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    slo here is where u adjust it
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    not to be an ass but your lights are exploding because when you put them in you handles the glass and the oil from your fingers got on to the glass and burned causing the glass to expand and contract diffrently than the other glass on the bulb therfor causing it to crack and inevitavly explode... happens with theatre lights all the time, (used to be head sound and assistant light at a theatre here in town) Ive learned from force of habbit not to handel lights by the glass and if its unavoidable I use a cloth to keep the oils out, even on normal incondesent bulbs
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    your headlights are not jdm, they're just black housing.
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    its like that cuz its right hand drive in JDM country... we hav left hand drive cars buddy... its normal that the left is higher cuz its for right hand drive cars and the side walk is on the left in right hand drive country therefore u can see signs and ppl... if it was design for us it will hav the right side higher...
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    thanks dx-r .. thats was wat i was thinking too
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    no problem... i hav some comments on ur aim... i think ur right side should be lower so that it looks like that heheh sorry abt my sh!tty photochop... but u can keep it the way u are right now cuz whatever works for u...

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    yea ill try that out n see how it goes
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    oh for fucks sake....
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