Help : Oem Xenon Aiming
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help request
can someone with bix take and post an upclose picture of the light projected against a white background (paper or wall)? your help is greatly appreciated.
thanks.
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Midnight Blue 2004.5 C230 Kompressor Sport Sedan. 2002 w210 E320, 2009 w211 E350 Sport
Originally Posted by raunen
can someone with bix take and post an upclose picture of the light projected against a white background (paper or wall)? your help is greatly appreciated.
thanks.
thanks.
Ever since I tried installing the front Brabus swaybar (and I'll finally have it in this weekend, with Mike's (mbbodytech) help) the auto-leveling seemed to have gotten messed up. I took it into the dealership, but they wouldn't fix the level of the beam due to my having "lowered" the car, so I paid them to fix it...But, the other night, when I was driving, I noticed that the passenger side beam was aimed lower than the driver's side beam. So I guess they didn't fix it accurately because any left-side drive car has to have the drive-side beam lower than the passenger side.
Reason, I bring this up is I'm also going to check out any "gaps" in the beam (as you posted above), so I want to see if they were able to fix that for you.
Let me know.
Thanks in advance.
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Originally Posted by drexappeal
Raunen, did the problem you had ever get resolved?
Reason, I bring this up is I'm also going to check out any "gaps" in the beam (as you posted above), so I want to see if they were able to fix that for you.
Reason, I bring this up is I'm also going to check out any "gaps" in the beam (as you posted above), so I want to see if they were able to fix that for you.
The dealer couldn't help. The service rep. drove the car at night, and confirmed the dark projection. After 3 days in service, they gave up and told me it was a reflection from the mirror, the light beams are within DOT specifications, and there was nothing for them to do. They also said they looked at the light beams from other BiX in the shop and all had the same pattern as those in the pictures (I didn't quite buy it hence my request for help from the forum---although no one posted a picture yet
![wall](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/banghead.gif)
All I've managed to do was to aim the beams as far to the left/up as possible as that was least annoying (although still noticeable). I used these aiming instructions as a start:
http://www.midstatedmc.com/tech/aim.htm
this was somewhat helpful because it had visual illustrations:
http://www.advanceautoparts.com/engl...010801ha.html#
Let me know how it works out for you.
p.s. be careful not to strip the screws! also the tab that covers the upper screw can easily come off and fall where you can't get it back! i already lost two and had to get them replaced.
Last edited by raunen; 09-02-2005 at 06:50 PM.
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I'm pissed off right now! I just looked at my BI-X and it seems that they must have tampered with the BI-X r/l aiming funtion because there isn't even a cover on them anymore. I didn't notice until today.
I'm gonna bring my car in to my Service Advisor to have him question them on this. They were supposed to help me fix the aiming, now my headlights don't seem just right anymore.
I'm gonna bring my car in to my Service Advisor to have him question them on this. They were supposed to help me fix the aiming, now my headlights don't seem just right anymore.
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Midnight Blue 2004.5 C230 Kompressor Sport Sedan. 2002 w210 E320, 2009 w211 E350 Sport
Originally Posted by raunen
drexappeal, did you get the aiming done?
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I have a light patern on my Bi xenon that goes like this __/ __/ my Question is are they supouse to be overlapping each other? when I look at the road should I just see 1 patern on the middle that looks like this __/ or 2 of them?
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forget it my buddy helped me
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my pattern is like this:
xxxx____
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the left and right beams individually are the same as well
the lower part of the right beam is aligned with the upper part of the left beam.
hope this helps.
xxxx____
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the left and right beams individually are the same as well
the lower part of the right beam is aligned with the upper part of the left beam.
hope this helps.
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white and whiter
Originally Posted by sdsilverm3
So was it supposed to be combined or 2 separate? I have the same issue. Just got the car back from the dealer today and the headlight aim was all screwed up.