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Old Feb 8, 2015 | 04:47 AM
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Adjusting Retrofits

My car had retrofits when I bought the car, and they were aimed very nicely. I had to take off the headlights and bumper cover a few times and now my driver side headlight is aimed weird. It is aimed much more to the center of the car, crossing over the passenger side light's output which is still straight. Also, the cutoff is not horizontally flat anymore. Anyone know how to adjust these things?
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Old Feb 8, 2015 | 08:17 AM
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Adjustment is the same as stock headlights for up and down alignment. For side to side. Check the bracket and the tabs on the bottom that go into the bracket. Might be off..
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Old Feb 8, 2015 | 01:14 PM
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The up and down I know how to adjust, it's the side to side and cutoff plain I need to adjust. I'll take them out and check that.
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 01:30 AM
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Bump.
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 06:47 AM
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You have to loosen the bolts on the bracket and adjust and the headlight into the bracket. It can be time consuming and a royal pain in the ass. Also make sure the headlight is loaded into the bracket correctly
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 12:50 PM
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Nice, I was playing around with that and it was helping. Thanks.
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 01:00 PM
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You can also use washers to help some with leveling the cut off
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 01:12 PM
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I'll probably try that too because the cutoff def isn't straight anymore, Idk how they got off so much.
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 01:27 PM
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The PO may have used a washer and you just didnt notice it
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 01:46 PM
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Trade me your retros and you wont have to deal with them anymore
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Old Feb 9, 2015 | 01:59 PM
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I think I'll deal with the issues haha.
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