SilvCivOn17s

one of my headlights is quite a bit higher, and there doesnt seem to be any adjustments on the back of the housing, any one know how to adjust the bulbs??

zdave87

The headlights are a little off, drivers side is lower than the passenger side.

jphish

If you open the hood there is a small hole near the back of the headlight which will give you access with a screw driver to adjust the vertical adjustment of of the headlight. You will have to remove the coolant reservoir to see the vertical adjustment on that side. The driver's side headlight should be 52mm below the passenger side headlight at 25 feet from a wall. I hope this helps. Got my info from the Honda service manual. Page 943 of 1103.

PrimoGen

delliot

ok, but 52mm below what? What's the Pass side supposed to be at? or is the pass side not adjustable?

negcamber

Check the DIY sticky in the "under the hood" forum. It has a link to instructions with a diagram of where the adjusters are and how the headlight pattern should look.

jphish

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=352248

delliot

OK, so after reading those posts...

The headlights are supposed to be adjusted to the same height (no difference between the left anf the right).
The 52mm comes in when comparing the height of the actual headlight to the height of the beam it projects(at 25 ft). the projected pattern should be 52mm (or 2.1") below the headlight height...

fernies04s2k

Correct. The driver side beam should be slightly lower so that you don't blind other drivers commin the opposite direction in traffic. And the passenger side is a little higher so that you can read the street signs. Or thats what i've always read. You can make them the same so that the "beam cutoff line" is equal but people will probably flash you thinking that you have your high beams on.

Clint.