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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 01:20 AM
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So I've owned my Trans am for a little over a year now and I've been working on it ever since and today It finally hit me that I'm pretty annoyed that my headlights aren't even! My passenger one is fine but my driver side headlight looks like its pointin towards the ground, any idea on what I can do? Any help will be great, thanks!
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 01:40 AM
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What year is your car
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 01:48 AM
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Sorry about that, it's an 02
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 03:49 AM
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its just a screwdriver adjustment... park facing a wall and the top and side screw on the bezel adjust up/down and left/right
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 08:00 AM
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It may be the other way around. Your passenger is probably too high. The low beams point down and the high beams point up.

Its real easy to get these off on Firebirds because people mistake the adjusters for the screws that hold the bulbs in. You can take the car to a shop with professional equipment to re-align them or follow a procedure like this: http://www.coolbulbs.com/HID-VISUAL-...-PROCEDURE.pdf
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 10:34 AM
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Bean head I'm gonna give that a try I know what screws you're talkin about, I don't know if it's the same on ever Trans am headlight assemble but mine has some screws with a star shipped head!
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 11:00 AM
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That's them. You'll want to be careful on the alignment. The low beams point down on to the pavement and the high beams point straight ahead.
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Old Apr 26, 2012 | 01:00 PM
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Roughly... The low beam should be aimed with a 2 inch drop at 25 feet.

Measure the center line of the headlight from the ground and tape a line on a wall 25 feet in front of the car at that measured height. The beam pattern on the wall should be 2 inches lower than that height.

Look at the PDF posted above for better instructions and images.
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Originally Posted by wssix99
It may be the other way around. Your passenger is probably too high. The low beams point down and the high beams point up.

Its real easy to get these off on Firebirds because people mistake the adjusters for the screws that hold the bulbs in. You can take the car to a shop with professional equipment to re-align them or follow a procedure like this: http://www.coolbulbs.com/HID-VISUAL-...-PROCEDURE.pdf
Link busted. Any other suggestions other than backing up 25' and setting the lights accordingly?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvSWBlAwnI

https://shop.advanceautoparts.com/r/car-projects/how-to-aim-and-adjust-headlights
https://www.jwspeaker.com/blog/how-t...am-headlights/
https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/aim/aim.html
https://raybuck.com/how-to-adjust-align-headlights/
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publication...148/aiming.cfm

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