Thread: Aiming the Headlights

I may want to personally fiddle a little with the headlight aim. The owner's manual doesn't address this. Does anyone know how to go about it?

Well, here's the orignial thread you can peruse...

http://www.azeraforum.com/showthread.php?tid=80

... and here's a substantive post from that thread that may help...

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A do-it-at-home primer (at least for the 2006 North-American version)
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The headlight adjustment can easily be done at home, with just a Phillips. A flashlight may be useful.

Open hood... hear the satisfying "whooooosh" as the hood lifter takes over and opens it the rest of the way for you!

On the driver's side, note the "Warning Attention Achtung" label. One step down from it, note a smaller bar-coded white label.

The opening and the "funnel" through which you insert your Phillips screwdriver is just to the left of that white label. Look below the funnel and you'll see a gear-looking knurled nut, edge-on, which is the adjuster.

The Phillips, inserted throught the two plastic openings (which are there to line-up the Phillips) will engage the knurled nut, and turning one way will raise the black bar, turning the other way will lower it. I don't recall which way is which, but if you have your lights on and shine them against a wall or garage door, you'll quickly know!

Now that you're an expert, find the similar setup on the passenger side and do th' do there, as well. Close the hood and that's that.

I raised the black bar on the driver's side just enough so I don't get people flashing their high beams at me, the passenger side I allowed a little higher...

Thank you Gamle-ged. I'll go out and look for this tomorrow, then park the car in a big empty parking lot at night and start screwin away until I get what looks right.

Slightly different thought. Oh, for the good old days when your headlight burned out you bought a new sealed glass beam, installed it, and had two easy screws to run in and out to aim the light. Those glass sealed beams never clouded like the plastic housings of cars for the last 15 years, or so do. AND, they didn't (and still don't) cost any more than the tiny little H bulbs than we insert into the plastic housings today. They put out plenty of light. Oh, well.

Sound EZ I might try to lift the lights a little too. Seem they don't shine down the road as far as other car do. Thank.

Reaiming the headlights did the trick for me!! I did I think 4 full rotations, best is to have the lights on so you can tell whether they are going higher or lower. When purchasing the Azera, I too was surprised at how little road was lit up at night, but not anymore!