Cyclopsracer

Hello all and thank you for this forum. I just purchased a 2010 C300 (waited most of my life for one) 4 matic with Xenon Headlights. They seem to point too far to the right (passenger side) The drivers side has a black spot (__/) the slash indicates that the light shines out more forward toward the middle of the car. Anyway...can these projector lights be adjusted right and left? The up and down screw is a cake walk to locate...where is the other?

I thank you in advance.

Cyclopsracer

I may have to assume that this cannot be done.....

Pete7874

It's like this on purpose - to light up more of the road shoulder (passenger side) without blinding the oncoming traffic (driver side).

ldtCapitan

What Pete said. It's done like that in order not to blind other drivers.

Cyclopsracer

Great! Thanks for the help

jctevere

However, correct me if I am wrong, but I believe on the HID's from a previous thread about this that there are manual adjustments to raise or lower them...

EDIT: Taken from another post: "If it really needs adjusting, open the hood and adjust height from the screw at the top of the head light, close to the fender. Adjust sidewise from a similar screw at about the centre of headlamp, at the top of course."

While I know that our cars are supposed to have that "Step Down" with the driver side being lower so as not to blind oncoming traffic. I feel like my Benz's lights are aimed much lower than all of my other Xenon headlight cars... I would like to adjust them upwards and still keep the step while maintaining the safety of not blinding oncoming traffic, and I believe it is possible...

Cyclopsracer

They are not HID's....I finally got the dealer to let me know that it can be done, it just takes a special tool.

charliele729

So you found out you didnt have Xenons?????? This is my first MB, and yes comparing with my other two cars with HID, MB are absolutely aim very low, I had to adjust them higher, or just about the same height as my other car because i felt as if I can only able to see 20ft in front of me with a big pool of light (not good to have your eyes focus down to the light). A rule of thumb is, from a straight wall, if the driver side light beam is slanting down, then you are ok. All US vehicles cannot adjust headlight side to side, only vertical.

Cyclopsracer

I don't know what you are talking about....I always knew I had Xenons...the post prior quoted adjustments from an HID post which are called Bi Xenons to MBZ

The dealer said you absolutely can go side to side with a tool that they have to do it. We'll see what happens.

Cyclopsracer

I meant to say didn't have Xenons

jctevere

Right Bi-Xenons and Xenons are pretty much the same thing, With Bi-Xenons containing a Xenon Low-beam and a halogen high beam within the same projector unit... I am a bit confused, are you saying you don't have HID at all and have solely halogen low and hi beams?

charliele729

I looked at our headlight before, and the side to side screw is totally blocked off, and it is against DOT code to move side to side. Let me know if they can because I never heard anyone doing that before. Thanks