How To Properly Aim The Headlight and Foglight - Full Tutorial

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In this video I will show to how to properly aim the headlight on a vehicle. I will also include information at the end for foglight aiming. Please follow this step by step procedure in this video. This should be performed whenever you change or modify your headlight.

** NOTE: For those viewers who are concerned about the driveway being not completely flat, this video is a tutorial on how to go about aligning your headlight. You are more than welcome to use any flat road surface you can find in your area. I hope you realize you DO NOT need to use the same driveway that I used. So go have fun and align those headlights and drive safely.

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Short, concise and straight to the point. Just right. Thanks!

capthook

Yesterday I went to service center as my beams are too low.. like I could see only 20 feet in front of me. Service center guy said there is no motors to headlights and as you have electric adjustment it can't be done manually and I need to change headlight assembly as whole(though it was changed last year and in pretty good shape). I was not in budget so I didn't change. Today I saw this video, first time I tried to work with car myself. I take out whole assembly to observe if there is any screw ... I found it and adjusted beams myself, now it's perfect. Thank you so much for very informative video.

s.d.

Thank you! Please keep the videos coming

mmarin

Great video and I will use these steps for my new headlights assemblies. Thank you so much

musicalokaoficial

Great step by step and video shots. The Philips screwdriver shot was perfect! I Was using a 8mm to move the bolt....

riconaka

Just bought a 2018 Civic, was wondering why the hell my headlights were so low.

This video helped immensely. Thanks man!

SammyWinFL

The video does a good job of covering the proper technique of setting up the painters tape on the wall, but it doesn't take into account the differences in headlight height for various vehicles, from Prius's to jacked up SUV's. You don't get extra distance just because your vehicle's headlights are higher off the ground.

The recommended "reach" of the driver side headlight is 200 feet (2400 inches). You're measuring how much the beam drops at 25 feet (300 inches), so you would multiply the height of your low beam by 1/8 (.125) since that is the ratio of the two distances, 300/2400 = .125

If your headlight is 30" from the ground, the drop would be 3-3/4" at 25 feet. If it's 36" high then the drop would be 4-1/2" at 25 feet. There's not a lot of difference, but it's there nonetheless. The average person can do a decent job on their own if they have the right information to begin with.

The whole point of doing this is to give you a decent view ahead of you without blinding oncoming cars. The passenger side should be set for a reach of 400 feet so you can see road signs, pedestrians, etc that would normally be to your right. Typically, the passenger side would be about 2" higher than the setting for your driver side since it won't blind oncoming drivers. The ratio there would be 300/4800 = .0625. You can do the math for your vehicle.

In my opinion the degrees that might be marked by your headlight is a waste of time. Who has the equipment to measure degrees that precisely? Certainly not your average driver.

kfdaddy

Best video I've seen on this topic so far. Nicely down, thanks.

cstinch

Thank you for saving people's eyeballs!

vikkash

Thanks, simple and short. This how need to look like all DIY video.

FuriousHondaBoy

Great info, just install new headlight housings and I do need some adjustments, cheers

wg

For the fog light adjustment you don't have to measure the height of the lamp. Adjust the TOP of the fog light beam spot so it just touches the BOTTOM of the low beam spot at 25' from the wall.

TheOzthewiz

Like the video.
Simple straight forward to the point.
Thanks

SB-xipq

good simple explanation, with out any technicalities. Just one point, I believe the passenger side headlight should be about 4 inch higher than the driver side from the center point

iseesomethingilike

Watched this before I replaced my headlamps & took my truck out. Not once did anyone throw their high beams on me. Got it right the first time. Thanks for sharing your info.

josequintana