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Rovert
03-29-2016, 03:59 PM
Hey guys,

I just made a printable PDF on how to align your lights/where to set your beams. I'm hoping this can be used to make it even easier to align without searching the internet while you do this DIY. Can anyone who knows how give any advice if I have anything drastically wrong with this? Really the instructions would be to print this at 100% full letter size. All the lines should be accurately placed as my design program was dealing in inches. The attachment is below:

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danewilson77
03-29-2016, 06:28 PM
Win. Pic is broke for me though.

Is this the correct one Trevor?

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160330/4cb8fa50d0e74e89ce89a5bbb67286fe.jpg

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slater
03-29-2016, 06:30 PM
looks good, trevor - and thanks. but, i am confused on how to determine where to mount these on the wall? i thought there was a specified height in your previous DIY?
Rovert
03-29-2016, 06:31 PM
Oh you'll have to use the computer and not Tapatalk since Tapatalk doesn't show PDFs.
Rovert
03-29-2016, 06:31 PM
You drive your car to the wall and mount the corresponding sheet to align with step 1.
Rovert
03-29-2016, 06:32 PM
Guess I still need some tweaking! With all your guys' advice this will become a good piece for the whole internet.
slater
03-29-2016, 06:35 PM
You drive your car to the wall and mount the corresponding sheet to align with step 1.

i read that, but what if my headlights are way off to begin with?
Rovert
03-29-2016, 06:37 PM
Your headlights are all relative to step 1. Because your bumper is nearly touching the wall, step 1's light will be very accurate as to where light is and where it needs to be corrected to. That's why you don't do step 1 with your car far away as your lack of proper alignment will really show.
slater
03-29-2016, 07:17 PM
Your headlights are all relative to step 1. Because your bumper is nearly touching the wall, step 1's light will be very accurate as to where light is and where it needs to be corrected to. That's why you don't do step 1 with your car far away as your lack of proper alignment will really show.

ahhhh, gotcha. thanks man! :cheers
Ssparrow
03-29-2016, 07:31 PM
Thanks for this! Definitely going to come in handy [emoji106]


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Rovert
03-29-2016, 07:33 PM
The easy explanation is make sure your 25ft cutoff beam is 2.1" lower than the cutoff beam right at the wall. Hah
Sockethead
03-30-2016, 05:19 AM
man I gotta do this! I got my XFR retrofit two years ago and still haven't aimed the headlights
az3579
03-30-2016, 10:15 AM
This is perfect, Trevor! My aiming is pretty much perfect to my eyes at this point, so I should measure it according to this to see how far off my "adjust by eye" method is and potentially shatter my dreams. lol
Rovert
03-30-2016, 10:17 AM
Sweet. I'll be printing these out and slapping it on windshields of cars that I see their beam pointing somewhere else in the fog. lol
NorCalZman
03-31-2016, 12:50 PM
I did this a year or two to my car. My headlights were way off. Interesting considering all the news about headlights being awful in even brand new cars. Partly because of bad aiming at the factory.
sillieidiot
03-31-2016, 01:23 PM
lol I get too lazy to do this perfectly so I just eyeball everything. I still do the tape, but I don't use a tape measure at all lol
Rovert
03-31-2016, 04:29 PM
They measure the F30 halogen lights against a Prius LED. How do you compete with that in the IHS headlight test? LOL. Put xenon and LEDs to the test and it would be just as good as the Prius' LED headlights.
Sockethead
03-31-2016, 04:34 PM
halogens in our F30 sucked
Rovert
03-31-2016, 04:41 PM
E46 burnt bowls suck more. They should be measured with a forced recall. Haha
az3579
03-31-2016, 04:43 PM
They measure the F30 halogen lights against a Prius LED. How do you compete with that in the IHS headlight test? LOL. Put xenon and LEDs to the test and it would be just as good as the Prius' LED headlights.
Well you can't blame them for comparing them... Halogen lights are still the standard equipment on new 3's while LEDs are standard on the Prius. So sad. Pick up the pace, BMW, damn.



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Sockethead
03-31-2016, 04:47 PM
yea it's pretty sad, Most of the stuff that is an option on a BMW is standard even on a Kia
BMWCurves
03-31-2016, 06:02 PM
yea it's pretty sad, Most of the stuff that is an option on a BMW is standard even on a Kia

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