New Palisade owner here. I’ve adjusted the low beams to where they need to be based of DMV requirements. However, when I bought my palisade the previous owner jacked with the high beams and now I’m seeing the tops of trees and power lines. Obviously not ideal. I live in the country so I need my high beams more than the average Joe. I understand there are two white adjustment screws that take a T60 bit. But those only adjust the low beams. I’m at a real stalemate here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Headlight adjustment
- Thread starter Matthew
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It is unusual for a headlight to have separate adjustments for the high beams and low beams. Typically, the adjustment screws move the entire projector mount assembly, which moves both high beam and low beam.
Has the previous owner swapped out the high beam bulbs to something non-standard? I've seen this sort of behavior occur when someone swaps in an led/hid bulb into a halogen assembly and the filament location in the replacement bulb isn't correct compared to the bulb it replaced.
Has the previous owner swapped out the high beam bulbs to something non-standard? I've seen this sort of behavior occur when someone swaps in an led/hid bulb into a halogen assembly and the filament location in the replacement bulb isn't correct compared to the bulb it replaced.
They sure did. The previous idiots, I mean owners put HID’s in there. The dealership wouldn’t touch them because obviously they weren’t O.E. So in my attempt to have better illumination because HID’s are prehistoric, I had them install LED’s. Well, I can adjust the low beams up and down with ease. But I just want to articulate the high beams. I may have to try on a dark country road instead of my garage door. The low beams and the high beams were both changed at the same time. So I would imagine they are seated in the receptacle fine. I’ll have to do some more rummaging around to see what I can find. It’s a pain in the rear nonethelessIt is unusual for a headlight to have separate adjustments for the high beams and low beams. Typically, the adjustment screws move the entire projector mount assembly, which moves both high beam and low beam.
Has the previous owner swapped out the high beam bulbs to something non-standard? I've seen this sort of behavior occur when someone swaps in an led/hid bulb into a halogen assembly and the filament location in the replacement bulb isn't correct compared to the bulb it replaced.
It's often not an issue of if they're seated or not, but rather a limitation of using a different bulb geometry. The base and bulb fit in the light, but the part of the bulb that emits the light is in a different physical location than the filament on the halogen bump. The projector assembly is just a shaped mirror and lens. If the light source itself is in the wrong spot, the output will not go in the direction intended. This often results in a lot of glare at high angles.So I would imagine they are seated in the receptacle fine.
With that said, a well designed hid system will perform very similarly to an led system. A halogen system with drop in bulbs, unfortunately, is not ideal nor designed for plug and play LEDs or HIDs as you're likely seeing the results of.
Thanks for all the info. I guess I’m just confused as to why there would be 2 adjustments. The top adjustment does (from what I can see) the same as the bottom. I guess I’ll just have to play around with it and see what happens. It’s extremely frustrating and am just about to throw the towel in and put a light bar on haha.
Generally one adjustment is up and down, the other is side to side. Because of how the mechanisms are set up, it's not unusual for adjustment of one to have some effect on the adjustment of the other. They're not completely isolated from each other.