I got 33's and a 2" lift put on my truck. I was trying to re-adjust my headlights so I can stop blinding everyone on the road that is coming my direction.

Well, I lined everything up and I was going through the bitch of a process that is screwing that little screw by hand with a 4mm socket. Everything was going fine, very slowly but fine. Then all of a sudden its like the light got to the end of its groove and it bumped up like 4-5 feet on the wall. Now the adjustor screw is like bottomed out and my ****ing light is higher than when I started.

Is there any way to fix this without taking the light apart? I bought aftermarket lights in the first place because I didn't want to put the stupid thing in the oven.

 

Did you strip out the adjustment screw?

 

I didn't strip it, it is just really close to the headlight now, and it is aimed nowhere near as low as it needs to be. It's bottomed out like I can't lower the thing any more, but it is still just way way too high. I am lighting up people's roofs when I drive around now.

 

any ideas?

 

I have the same problem with mine, just mines too low!! If you have black headlight, I'll trade you. I have black headlights. I need mine raised since the guy I bought them from had the beam lowered since his truck was lifted too.

 

If you only leveled with 33's you shouldn't have to adjust them anywhere close to where you would bottom that out as you say. I think you maybe overdone it, anyways, I have never heard of it doing that.

 

Yeah, you didn't need to lower it that much.. When I got my level and new tires, I just lowered it like 2 full rounds and it was too low! I can't imagine how low they'd be if it was down all the way!

 

That's what I thought at first.

giveMongoBall,


When my ride was leveled with 35's I needed very little rotation with the Snap-on 4mm ratchet wrench to drop it to a level where folks on the road weren't pissed. If my memory serves me correct, I probably did 3-4 semi rotations of the wrench before it was set.... took me all of 8-10 mins t adjust both.

Something's not right with your arduous attempt.

 

I was just following the instructions in the manual. It says basically just to park 25ft from a wall and make sure the top of the light is even with the height of the light from the truck at that point. Maybe the guy who owned the lights before me raised them up for some reason. All I know is they are really high, truckers get pissed at me all the time.

 

33s, 3" leveler, PIAA extreme whites, NO adjustment.

 

The owner before you raising them up sounds like it may be possible.

The other possibility is the light housing/mounting is not sitting in properly... have you looked at that?

This happened to me one time many years back. I had a small fender-bender in a sedan I owned back in Sydney. After it came out of the body shop for a new bumper and some heads & fogs, I had irrate drivers flashing me and giving me the "bird" the first night. Not only did I have considerable vertical misalignment and miss-match, but horizontal misalignment was slightly [yet noticably] off too. This was strange because as you may know, vehicles only have vertical adjustments so something was not right. The [similar] screw-type adjustment was all the way down so they wouldn't drop any further. I finally figured that the light housing was sitting out about one-eighth of an inch and slightly off center because the shop had not screwed them in properly.... enough to send it AWOL. After a re-adjustment, all was sweet.

This may or may not apply in your instance. Just food-for-thought.....

Anyway, it's been over a month since you initiated this thread. What's the outcome? Did you resolve it?

PS: I did the 25-feet from the wall adjustment as a starter.

The best way I tweaked my heads & fogs shortly after my level went on, and after the above initial process, was recommended to me by an "old-timer."

I had my wife sit in a vehicle [mid-sized sedan] parked about 200-feet away facing my truck on a level surface. I covered one head with a sweater so it's output was restricted and didn't interfere with the oter head being adjusted. I adjusted the other head just to the point where that "glare" was not a nuisance based on her feedback. I did this for both heads and both fogs while communicating with my spouse via cell phone on the other end. I then sat in the sedan and did a final tweak for myself.... it worked like a charm as I've never had anyone [since] flash or bird me as my heads/fogs are adjusted for maximum intensity and throw.

This process is successful because if people in sedans are happy with your light's positioning, then over 90-percent of the people on the road will [more than likely] be content. Goes without saying not to make the "other" vehicle that's guiding you, a truck or the like.

This process took all of about 10mins [a piece] or so from go-to-whoa.

 

Im lifted 6 inches and have HIDs in my headlights, and I didn't have to max it out to get them low enough.

The fogs are too bright with the HIDs no matter what though, they are just crazy bright. I only use them offroad.

 

mines at 11inches of lift on a 40 and i havent adjusted mine at all, i usually just drive with my fogs on a marker lights on, i barley use my headlights.

 

my buddy did that same thing on his jeep, youre gonna need a new housing. you backed the adjustment screw in/out too far, and lost contact with the housing and/or stripped it out.