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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:23 PM
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Help! Aiming projectors!

ok so i did some seraching and now its here but probably be quicker this why

i need to aim my projectors gen 1 there are 2 screws ones on the left and ones on the right,

if im looking at the light because they are on my car which screw does what,

and can someone post a pic of them lines up so i can get a idea of what its suppose to look like

thanks
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:26 PM
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the screw on the outside of the car (towards the outter) does up and other side does left to right if im not mistaken
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:27 PM
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and ill have to take the headlights out to aim them corect? sincei can only see the inner screw when they are mounted
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:28 PM
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yup i did mine took about 3 hours of total between days to get them perfect
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:30 PM
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do you just set them on the ground and make the lights even or how did you do it or take it out and in and out and in? that will be a pain for my car
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:31 PM
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take them in, take them out,

repeat 7 times

had my dads caddillac to get a base line to work off though
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:33 PM
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well i guess you can really just shot them where you lik them for me i have to lower my passenger side alil and higher my driver side and make it alil left its pretty close to even already just have to bring one up alil and one down so they can aim in the same level.
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 08:35 PM
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i did my passenger a lil higher cuz thats the side thats not in peoples eyes that are coming at you

i guess its somewhat a common setting for most projectors
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 10:13 PM
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Ok i just did them you where right the outside screw goes up and down (counter-clockwise goes up, clockwise goes down) and the inside screw goes left right (Counter-clockwise is left clockwise is right)
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 10:17 PM
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i parked my car facing a solid color wall and got the mark from that..took like 30mins per light
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 10:19 PM
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ya it took me like a hour and a half i would reccomend Silverstars if you dont have HID they are a world of diffrence from the stock bulb. i have just a silverstat h1 bulb that is at 4100k and it looks just like i have HID with a blueish white color. i recommend them
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Old Feb 10, 2009 | 10:19 PM
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ya it took me like a hour and a half i would reccomend Silverstars if you dont have HID they are a world of diffrence from the stock bulb. i have just a silverstat h1 bulb that is at 4100k and it looks just like i have HID with a blueish white color. i recommend them
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