I just got the projector46 hid kit installed. Having some issues aiming them. At the cutoff line I have a beam that looks like ___/---__/--- each bulb alone does a ___/---- beam. The light output is kinda like the drivers side light is pointed down but like I said each bulb alone makes shape. Hard to illustrate in text.. I will try to get a pic but my cameras battery is near death.

From inside the car:
http://www.crystalsheltonphotos.com/private/pictures/pict1960-1.jpg

Standing next to drivers door:
http://www.crystalsheltonphotos.com/private/pictures/pict1961-1.jpg

Some of that on the second photos is probably due to the lights being aimed nearly straight down.

The lights are supposed to have tick marks.

They seem to be aimed low.. but if you raise them you might blind people. If visibility is good keep it!

park 20 ft from a wall. u want the flat line of each projectors output to be 2-3" shorter than the height of the headlight from the ground! that will help TONS and wont blind people.

-B

Ya, in those photos they were almost all the way down. Hard to tell by photo but I could only see about 10 feet in front of the car. As you can see the tree there is completely dark and its maybe 40 feet away. I guess I was just kinda stunned at how much more light I got out of these and played it a little to safe and pointed them to far down. (they were lighting up the roof of a 3 story building)

I got them adjusted alot better but still have that strange look. What im referring to is that each headlight kinda has a nice cutoff line on the left side then slants upwards then has a higher cutoff line. The top photo shows this very well and you can see the two slants clearly. Again, this isn't the passenger side being aimed higher, each bulb alone produces that stair step effect. This normal? Wouldn't be bad if I could make one bulb slant the other way to kinda blind it a bit. I wonder if this has anything to do with it:
http://www.crystalsheltonphotos.com/private/pictures/headlight.jpg

I see the switch inside the housing but I have no idea what the above acronyms stand for or what that switch really does and didn't mess with it.

alright. yes they should be stepped like that. they are made to light up the right side of the road more. (road signs pedestrians. ect... ect...) you have an ECE step which is used in Europe. DOT steps are stock in the US cars: here is a diagram. the lever in the light changes the cutoff pattern frmo right hand drive cars to left hand drive. and vice versa. incase you live in australia japan or other areas that are right hand drive.

http://i1.tinypic.com/4lpyviw.jpg


to aim them properly park 20 ft from a wall. and the left side of the pattern (the flat part) should be 2-3 inchs shorter than the height from the ground to your projector. hope this helps!

-B

That diagram and explanation is excellent. Thanks alot!


I guess its just alot more noticeable since the lights are not aimed correctly in that photo. I aimed them again up more when I got home but have yet to actually take it out at night again and make sure its correct. It just looks strange. Guess I could always just flip the switch on the passenger side to even the light. Ill drive around tonight and try to find a wall I can adjust them against.

If I understand this right, the ECE pattern is more the second and third while the DOT pattern is the first in that diagram or is it just over exaggerated for clarity? I would not mind the first pattern.

dot is top pattern found in US spec HID projectors. ece is found in euro projectors. here is a picture of my tsx dot projector cutoffs.

http://i5.tinypic.com/5zlc2e8.jpg

glad to help!