Need help aiming headlights
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97' S320 & 00" S500
Need help aiming headlights
I have a 2000 S500 and one of my headlights points downward way too much. Can anyone tell me where the headlight aim adjustment screws are. I can't find them anywhere. A picture locating them would be much appreciated.
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From: Ball Ground, GA (N of Atlanta)
2003 S500 2007 GL450
On my car, there are two white adjusters on the top of the headlight unit - one adjusts up/down, the other right/left. With the hood up, look at the top of the light unit - the adjusters are mounted vertically, so the heads are on top of the housing, but under the edge of the body just behind the clear lens. Each is about 25% of the way in from each end.
These adjusters move the housing, which aims the high beam and the foglight.
If you have HID low beams, they are automatically adjusted up/down each time that the car is started.
If you have standard halogen lights, moving the adjusters adjusts all of the lights in the housings.
These adjusters move the housing, which aims the high beam and the foglight.
If you have HID low beams, they are automatically adjusted up/down each time that the car is started.
If you have standard halogen lights, moving the adjusters adjusts all of the lights in the housings.
