Can anyone tell me how to align the headlights on my landrover discovery, as in distance and settings please??
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Just a point if you are doing it yourself. Unplug one lamp while you do the other. It makes it much more obvious where the beam is going
you cant you have to have a certain test board in front of the truck at a certain distance then you adjust them with a allen wrench back to the factory setting .
Jim is correct.
And it also falls under the MOT.
It has to be done properly otherwise you will either blind other drivers or wont be able to see more than 30ft up the road.
To do it properly you'd be better to take it to any MoT test station as they all have a beam setter to check it on. You can't alter the distance of the beam as such, the only adjustments are up/down and left/right.
You want about 1/2 a degree of dip, that is the horizontal cut off of the top of dip beam.
If you have no beam setter, find a bit of board or a wall shine one headlamp at it, after dark, mark the top of the Horizontal part of the dip beam on it, reverse away, the beam should move very slowly down as you move away perhaps 3" after 50 feet if not adjust so it does then check the cut off of the other headlamp is in line. for adjustment side ti side use main beam , the headlamps should shine straight down the road but not converge of cross over. Not rocket science. If folk flash you on dip go down a few flats.
go to a local garrge they will do it for a couple of quid job done
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