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Old Dec 19, 2004 | 11:35 AM
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Question Can the Fog Lights be Aimed?

After getting my truck fixed (hit deer), I noticed that the passenger side (repaired) fog light is aimed slightly higher than the driver's side. I actually like the new aim point better (light seems to skim over the road rather than hit the road ~10 yards in front of the truck). Question is are the fog light aim points adjustable? I'm mainly interested in just adjusting the light up, not left or right, so shims would probably work in a pinch. I really want the lights to match, but if I bring it back to the body shop, they will probably "fix" the light back to stock.
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Old Dec 19, 2004 | 12:35 PM
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Yes the fogs can be aimed, use a 4mm socket on the adjusting screw protruding from the rear of the light housing. This is easily acessed from the front wheelwell area.
At night (obviously) park your rig on a level area adjacent to a wall 25' away and align the fogs, the top edge of the beam will appear flat and the top of that flat area should be no higher on the wall than the height of the top of the actual fog lite as measured from the ground. Hope thats not too confusing


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Old Dec 19, 2004 | 12:44 PM
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The fog lights are designed to skim the ground to reduce the glare off the fog. Raising the adjustment will reduce there usefullness should you encounter this. It could also net you a fine from the local PD.
 
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Old Dec 19, 2004 | 02:40 PM
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yob2kanobe, thanks for the reply. I'll go give it a try.


Tbird69, I'm trying to adjust the lights to skim the ground. In the stock setting, the light was basically hitting the ground 10 yards in front of the truck, so if I were driving any faster than 30 MPH, they were doing no good (other than looking cool!).

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Old Dec 19, 2004 | 03:48 PM
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Oh, sorry!
 
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