I took up an offer of a FREE MOT today.

I've never been to this garage in my life, I didnt have to get a service as well, - no catches whatsoever.

My car flew through apart from one thing, the lights are too low. Way too low, - they're outside the range of what they should be.

When the bloke told me this alarm bells started ringing, and I wondered if everyone who comes here for their "FREE" MOT discovers the same problem....

To my suprise the bloke ajusted them, for free. So no catches, - totally free MOT. Quite amazing in this day and age.

But anyway - I was suprised to see just how low my lights were, - the car only had an MOT 6 months ago, - and Honda didnt notice the problem when it was recently serviced.

This is a little hard to explain, but I wanted to check that the guy has lined up my lights correctly???

Before the ajustment, the "light line"
__________
. . . . . . . . . . \__________

was about 10-15 meters in front of me - 'painted' on the ROAD as I drove along (looked quite good!).

Now, on a flat road, the "light line" (depicted above!) will be pointing at the car in front, - I still see the line when the road curves upwards etc, - but now all i've got is the line either side of me (e.g. going along the walls at the sides of the road) and then disapears in front of me.

Does that make any sense whatsoever?!? If yes, are my lights okay now??

 

the s2000 is one of the few cars available with self leveling headlights, i wonder how this person adjusted them!

 

How does the S know when the lights are level in the first place?

He ajusted them using a rachet turning the bolt on the back of the lights which fine ajusted them... - until they were aiming at the correct height according to the tool the light pointed into.

 

As I understand it, the headlights are adjusted whilst on level ground as per the diagrams below. The Automatic adjustment is how the car compensates for either differing road gradiants or changes in loading (actually I think its the later as it senses wishbone positopn), such that you don't dazzle other drivers. The detection for this is somewhere within the rear suspension, as I recall.

 

The automatic adjusters is to compensate for any load being carried in the car, so they are not aimed too high while carrying a load. The adjustment carried out is too set the lights to the "normal" level ie with no load in the car.
When you add load to the car, this i sensed by the automatic adjuster that effectively measures the distance between the rear nearside lower wishbone and the car body. It then adjust the light aim down to compensate, so that it returns to the "normal" level. When the load is removed the light aim is adjusted back.
Also, the light adjustment is not immediate as it needs to compensate or ignore normal suspension movement.

 

JDM efforts don't have the self adjusters. I need to adjust mine - Waaaaaaaaaaay too low!

 

Not for road gradients, you would then dazzle others
Just load carrying in the rear that makes the front sit up.

 

Brilliant info - thankyou.

So from my description above, - does it sound like my lights are pointing in the correct direction???

 

[QUOTE]Not for road gradients, you would then dazzle others

 

Assuming they weren't adjusted with a load ie the rear sitting down.