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My wife’s car as the automatic high beams and we also turned it off.

One reason I say it’s people using automatic high beams is sometimes they turn off very quickly when you flash them or get closer.

It sucks to do it but I remember a drivers Ed instructor saying yes you’ll be blinded by their high beams but do you want them blinded too?

I return the "blinded" favor moments before we pass each other. They'd have to jerk the steering wheel to hit me then... not impossible, but less likely.

 

[civilian]

Don't know about other vehicles but my Tundra has a little wheel on the dash to adjust the headlight vertically from normal position downward to compensate for loads in the bed.

What year Tundra and what package level do you have? I have had a 2007 and a 2018 SR5 and do not remember seeing that dial. I know there is a dial for dash lamp intensity. Picture would be helpful of dial. Thanks. Jon

 

[ultrarunner]

They're all adjustable, I'm guessing that you mean self adjusting?

If I remember correctly, my '23 Durango had automatically adjusted headlights.

A small thumb wheel on the dash or a lever on drivers side footwell with detents.

I was not aware the first time I rented in Germany and mentioned to my friend so many are flashing their headlights at me…

He said I had my adjustment set too high for city driving…

 

[Grumpycat]

They're all adjustable, I'm guessing that you mean self adjusting?

Eurospec Porsche 928 had driver-adjustable headlight height aim. Knob on floor to the left of the driver's seat.

Many in the USA figured out how to retrofit this feature. Remember the 928 headlights fold pointing up at the sky then lift into place when turned on. Even the USA model has to keep the light off until the fixture has deployed into place. So to adjust aim one just has to have a bit of control over the motor which deploys the lights.

 

[WinterDeere]

If you’ve ever looked it up in a shop manual it shows how to adjust the headlights to spec. Usually aimed at a garage door or wall.

This is always how I've done mine. The biggest problem, in my little corner of the world (foothills of the Pocono subrange of the Appalachians), finding any stretch of flat ground longer than your car itself, is neigh-on impossible. You end up playing games with, "well, I'm on a hill, but at least the slope of the hill is constant".

 

[WinterDeere]

A small thumb wheel on the dash or a lever on drivers side footwell with detents.

I remember trying to buy an old/original Mini Cooper in Germany, to import back to the USA, and that had the 3-position roller switch on the left side of the dash for changing headlight angle, right next to the headlight switch. I remember asking either the seller or my German buddy what it was, and when they explained it, I was like... "you're kidding, right?"

When I realized a driver plus three passengers and a few grocery bags would change the weight of the vehicle by a full 50%, it started making sense.

 

[Fallon]

You should clock the projectors correctly before resealing the housing.

Then again, I had three sets of $1,600 headlights that had at least one projector each clocked wrong. That's when I decided to try a retrofit myself.

They were clocked correctly. The shutter for low beams wasn't straight. It looked like:

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For both left & right. The lower bit on the left was to lower things for oncoming drivers. Higher on the right to catch signs & things on the side of the road. If you get the angled bit to line up perfectly at 100' the don't quite line up at 50' or 150'. Basic parallax error.

Also, when you (at least I) design & build things, others see something cool & does 99% of what it's supposed to. I see the 1% of design compromises or build mistakes. Pain of being a perfectionist you really don't get with an OEM system,

 

[WinterDeere]

Maybe time to start a separate headlights thread. Drop a link to it here, if you do, so those interested can follow over.

 

[gstrom99]

Back to hauling something wrong... Somebody using a big truck to apparently haul a very small package a week or 2 ago. Looking at the photo, the truck looks lopsided, but I think that's just my camera work.

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I sometimes have trouble with those vanity plates. What's this one supposed to read: "compensate"?

 

[dstig1]

I sometimes have trouble with those vanity plates. What's this one supposed to read: "compensate"?

That's how I read it. Not sure why/what he is getting at but whatever...

 

[Jstpssng]

Don't know about other vehicles but my Tundra has a little wheel on the dash to adjust the headlight vertically from normal position downward to compensate for loads in the bed.

Apparently mine does, also.

 

[John0829]

I have had a 2007 and a 2018 SR5 and do not remember seeing that dial. I know there is a dial for dash lamp intensity. Picture would be helpful of dial. Thanks. Jon

Here ya go

 

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This is always how I've done mine. The biggest problem, in my little corner of the world (foothills of the Pocono subrange of the Appalachians), finding any stretch of flat ground longer than your car itself, is neigh-on impossible. You end up playing games with, "well, I'm on a hill, but at least the slope of the hill is constant".

A few years back I replaced the entire headlight units on my truck as the originals were leaking and not particularly clear any more

and my driveway while gentle is still definitely a slope

I got the headlights aimed "mostly" against the garage door, then drive a quarter mile down the road to where it's almost flat and straight for another quarter mile, put the flashers on and fine-tuned the aim there

must've done a good job because despite then being very white (5000K - zero blue, not yellow at all) and very bright, on a truck riding 35's, I get flashed maybe once a year.

I can see for miles and miles

 

[ptsg]

Opss! Too much!

 

[Jstpssng]

Opss! Too much!

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We see this picture too often with Dodge Ram trucks. Do they really have weak frames or is it just that they get posted more? Or is it that the people who buy them don't know when to stop?

 

[ptsg]

We see this picture too often with Dodge Ram trucks. Do they really have weak frames or is it just that they get posted more? Or is it that the people who buy them don't know when to stop?

The later one, definitely. Isn't that a 1500 too?

 

[Jstpssng]

The later one, definitely. Isn't that a 1500 too?

That's what I thought. There is this funny decal on the door which tells when to stop overloading it. Reading comprehension eludes some people though.

 

[bcp]

How can it be overloaded? The trailer isn't even full yet!

Bruce

 

[Topzide]

I think it's photo shopped. The front is too level for a frame buckle. The middle would be up or down, not level. Other shadows and fuzzy areas don't seem to add up. JM2C.

 

[WinterDeere]

We see this picture too often with Dodge Ram trucks. Do they really have weak frames or is it just that they get posted more? Or is it that the people who buy them don't know when to stop?

I see mostly Fords in these pictures. I'd guess there are stupid owners overloading poorly-maintained trucks, in all brands.