Dont be like us, Adjust your headlights correctly

[Wizzard005]

So a little bit of a back story. We did adjust our lights, but we went on a over-landing trip and loaded the back up with all of the extra weight, the back sagged a little bit and made the darn lights blind people :/ We didnt know this at the time, went on our trip and didn't bring a super light Philip screwdriver with us. So it was too late to fix...

So for those of you that want to know how to adjust, here's how.

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[Mark Doiron]

So a little bit of a back story. We did adjust our lights, but we went on a over-landing trip and loaded the back up with all of the extra weight, the back sagged a little bit and made the darn lights blind people :/ We didnt know this at the time, went on our trip and didn't bring a super light Philip screwdriver with us. So it was too late to fix...

So for those of you that want to know how to adjust, here's how.

Thanks, I've been wondering about this. Fortunately, unlike the JK, i won't have to pull the grill. While easy on my JK, on the JT, pulling the grill will entail working it around the winch. Which likely means removing the skid plate and front bumper. It was difficult, requiring two people, to put that all together, so sure don't want to pull it apart any more than necessary.

I'll have to check out your video channel. You might find mine interesting, too:

http://youtube.com/c/digitalbydoiron

 

[Capt. B]

As easy as it is to adjust these lights, if you don't do it you're just being a dick.

 

[Wizzard005]

As easy as it is to adjust these lights, if you don't do it you're just being a dick.

agree and we have been blind e by other Jeeps. :/.

 

[TheSolarWizard]

When’s this buyback happening again?

 

[canyonrat]

Yes! I am so tired of seeing Internet posts of people who get flashed on lo beam saying "then I just blast em with my hi beam to show them". Good on you OP to show some respect to fellow drivers.

If someone get flashed every time they drive at night they probably need adjustment. To then further flash their hi's like some macho thing is an idiot move. There are way too many mis-adjusted, too-bright LED headlights on the road these days, and not talking just jeeps. It adds to eye stress of night driving.

 

[Wizzard005]

Yes! I am so tired of seeing Internet posts of people who get flashed on lo beam saying "then I just blast em with my hi beam to show them". Good on you OP to show some respect to fellow drivers.

If someone get flashed every time they drive at night they probably need adjustment. To then further flash their hi's like some macho thing is an idiot move. There are way too many mis-adjusted, too-bright LED headlights on the road these days, and not talking just jeeps. It adds to eye stress of night driving.

ouch jeep lights are super bright vs some of the cars / trucks out there.. We felt so bad on the way home from our Trip because we thought it was dialed in correctly, but with gear in the back, it made the front come up a little bit just enough to piss people off... So now we carry a screw driver with us just in case (at the time we didn't have one that would reach the driver side one, so there was nothing we could have done to correct it.... this video we made months ago just didn't post it till now as people kept asking us.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yes! I am so tired of seeing Internet posts of people who get flashed on lo beam saying "then I just blast em with my hi beam to show them". Good on you OP to show some respect to fellow drivers.

If someone get flashed every time they drive at night they probably need adjustment. To then further flash their hi's like some macho thing is an idiot move. There are way too many mis-adjusted, too-bright LED headlights on the road these days, and not talking just jeeps. It adds to eye stress of night driving.

BRAVO - no, mega-bravo, to you and the OP of this thread. I can't agree enough, I couldn't agree more. Mega likes on this post and the original post!!!!
This is one reason I have the Hoppy headlight aiming setup I used when I worked for my first boss - I inherited it from him. It was for the original round only, I bought the adapters for the rectangular headlights so I could keep the lights aimed on my classic cars - and I DO keep them aimed.
I know what it's like - I have eyes that are ultra-sensitive to brights at night. They literally blind me for a couple of seconds.
And with one good eye, and my son having lost his right eye in a mugging, I'm VERY sensitive to these things.
I refuse to blind people like these pickup guys that add 4 extra headlights on, those intense 1 million lumen lights that cut holes in the landscape - they don't even bother to aim the bloody things.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

To the OP - thank you for that. Good to see people with some respect still exist out there.

 

[Wizzard005]

To the OP - thank you for that. Good to see people with some respect still exist out there.

Glad to have shared this with you guys...

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I've bookmarked it as once I hook up to my trailer, load it with a car, I want to see how much sag there is - if like I expect, I plan on putting the max tow springs under it I got. I want to be sure to adjust headlights when I swap.
I need to tweak the headlamp adjustment in my WJ after the lenses were refinished but I think guys in another Jeep forum have posted about that adjustment.
This is one reason I wanted a level spot in my shop - and people ask "what's the blue tape for on the doors"

 

[canyonrat]

(Sigh) case in point. Saw this AFTER commenting on this thread, and I am neither of these people.

 

[Wizzard005]

(Sigh) case in point. Saw this AFTER commenting on this thread, and I am neither of these people.

to be honest, from the day we got our JT people did in fact flash us, even before the lift... the lights have always been super bright. I feel maybe some from the factory were not set up correctly. just yet another thing jeep quality control missed.

 

[RIPLER]

I had a new generation Nissan Titan that allowed me to raise or lower the headlight angle with a switch, I used it all of the time when I towed my boat.

 

[furrymurray]

I had a new generation Nissan Titan that allowed me to raise or lower the headlight angle with a switch, I used it all of the time when I towed my boat.

Now that's pretty damn cool!

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