subject: How To Adjust Your Vehicle Headlights [print this page] You don't have to bring your car to a Utah auto repair shop every time you need to adjust your car headlights. That is just money being spent unnecessarily. You can do this task on your own with a little information on how to adjusting car headlights. You need to check on the headlights at least once in every 12 months.
Roads are hard to see if you have lights going every which way. If you need to do a quick fix and you don't have a Utah auto repair shop nearby, you can follow these easy steps. Your car needs to be balanced and level to start out. Check the air in each tire to make sure they are full to capacity. Remove items you may have in the car or the trunk that might throw it off balance at all.
Park your car somewhere in front of a wall that you can mark making sure to have the ground even. Using painters or masking tape, turn on your headlights and make horizontal as well as vertical marks with the tape to where the headlights shine. Each side should end up with a marking that looks like a "T" letter shape. It's great if you can have a level on hand, you will want to see if the lights shine onto the wall evenly.
Simply place the level in between the center lines of each mark. If they are not aligned, use a tape measure to check on how far the lower mark is from the upper part of the wall. Adjust your car's position to about 10 more feet backwards. Turn off the car headlights then start removing the trim rings surrounding them. You will see the adjusting screws, one screw is on top of the headlight, for making vertical adjustments and the other screw is located at the sides to make horizontal adjustments. Using the screwdriver, you may now adjust the screws.
You should turn the upper screw clockwise if you want to raise the headlight and counter clockwise if you want to lower it down. As for side screws, you can turn it from right to left or vice versa. Turn your car headlights on to check if everything's fine, just as a Utah auto repair shop would.
Make sure that the beam of light is casted just a little lower than the center line on your garage wall, so you will not blind drivers you meet along the road. After you're done adjusting your car headlights, take your cars for a test drive, readjusting the headlights if you find that something's still wrong.
