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90/91 owners
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:41 pm
by 91White-T
All of you that have 90/91s, and dim headlighs, try aligning them, I just did this the other day, and the lighting improved dramatically. My low beams are better than my high beams used to be! No more vision problems at night.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:32 pm
by vrg3
How did you "align" them? As far as I know, 90-91 headlights aren't visually aimable.
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:53 pm
by ciper
What does visually aimable mean?
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:41 pm
by vrg3
Visually aimable lights can be aimed by the beam pattern on a wall. To aim a non-visually aimable light you have to use one of those thingamajigs that clips onto the three pips on the lens. Visual aiming is generally preferable because it takes into account any tolerances in the whole system, and because it can be done by anybody with a wall, 25 feet of flat level ground, and some masking tape.
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 12:47 am
by petridish38
the haynes manual lists steps to "visually aim" the headlights.....but then again, that's the haynes manual...
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:26 am
by vrg3
The Haynes manual covers Legacies from model years 1990 through 1998. Model years 1992 through 1997 have visually aimable lights. 1998 may -- I'm not sure. So maybe they generalized incorrectly?
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:47 am
by ciper
I dont understand what the difference is, but I covered one headlight with cardboard and aimed it, then covered the other and aimed it after installing sylvania xtravision bulbs.
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:49 pm
by vrg3
How did you aim them?
Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 10:11 pm
by ciper
The drivers was straight ahead horizontally and down about half an inch at 20 feet. The passenger to the right half an inch and down 1/4 vertically.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:14 am
by Legacy777
there are adjuster screws to aim the whole light up and down....and left to right......they are different then the 92-94's assembly.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 4:18 pm
by vrg3
ciper wrote:The drivers was straight ahead horizontally and down about half an inch at 20 feet. The passenger to the left half an inch and down 1/4 vertically.
I didn't realize the pattern had markers you could use to aim horizontally and vertically. That was my question.
Just a note -- you should aim them both straight ahead, or if anything move the passenger side to the right a little. If you aim to the left you are aiming into oncoming traffic and as the beam goes further from your car it will go further from the right side of the road.
Posted: Wed Jan 28, 2004 8:47 pm
by ciper
Edited it, I got confused. It was to the right for the passenger and straight for the drivers.
Meaning the drivers light was down slightly and the passenger pointed towards the side of the road.