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Does anyone align thier headlights these days?
Coming home from work im gettin blinded ,by acar with one highbeam an the other low .what else would cause this?
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I know what you mean. Even worse when ignorant clowns use their driving lights as "look at me Im cool" lights too.
I reckon it should be part of our annual rego inspection (NSW).
Years ago when I was in Fiji, a local service station was offering a free headlight alignment whenever you got fuel. If a poor nation like that can do it, why cant Australia?
Ive worked with many company car divers at the various places Ive worked at in the last 2 decades, and seen a lot of them have accidents involving front ends. Im yet to see a car come back from a smash repair with properly aligned lights, so I reckon thats half the problem.
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they come new from the factory with misaligned headlights and non functioning stop lights. blame the vehicle inspectors for not doing their job.
And why is it that when a headlight fails it is almost always the right side one?? Bad because at night you see only one light coming towards you so you think it is a motor bike, in reality it is a car with a faulty right hand light and you can collide with it.
I have a habit of checking the car in front of me when I have my headlights on to see if there are two beams on the rear of the car or one, also check the car stoplights when reversing in at night with the lights off.
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The hg holden manual has a how to align headlights section.
park on a level surface and have the lights pointed at a wall .
you can then see where the beams are focused,there is a height and distance measurement also--im no expert but i dont think itll work in daylight. tee hee he i wonder how they do it on new cars?
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youll find its not aligment but its these new you bute hid headlights & also if you look at modern cars they all have clear lenses instead of the old spread beam headlights which makes the light spread more were the new diamond cut style is more direct lighting & depending on the angle you look at it they can be quite irritating
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Its silly that something so simple yet crucial is ignored by so many people. Here in NZ the headlight alignment is checked by a calibrated machine during the cars warrant of fitness every 6 months. Your car isnt legal unless they are aligned and more often than not you have to fork out a few bucks to get them corrected (not that its difficult).
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I enquired of an auto elec about having the HKs headlights realigned after the repaint.
"We dont do that anymore mate, its done in the panel shop".
So I asked the panel shop about it,
"Err ah yeah... we would have done that".
Coulda fooled me, consulted the manual and pinched a white sheet off the cook.
Modern cars default to high beam when the low beam fails, funny how it is invariably the right one and more often than not it will be a Falcon taxi.
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what drives me nuts,is the clowns the drive around morning or night with there high-beams on!?!
how can they not know!!!!!???????!!!!!!
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Modern cars default to high beam when the low beam fails
Ive not heard of that feature before. What cars have it ?? In reference to Micks comment, checking of the headlight aim is supposed to be included in an annual roadworthy in NSW. But like the smash repair industry, they tend to get a bit lazy. Dr Terry |
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr Terry
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Originally posted by 80569K
Modern cars default to high beam when the low beam fails
Ive not heard of that feature before. What cars have it ??
Dr Terry
Well, it would seem that every Falcon taxi in Sydney has this secret but yet dazzling feature. I have obviously been misled if you are in the dark here. Dr Bob Part time Gynae.
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr Terry
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Originally posted by 80569K
Modern cars default to high beam when the low beam fails
Ive not heard of that feature before. What cars have it ??
In reference to Micks comment, checking of the headlight aim is supposed to be included in an annual roadworthy in NSW. But like the smash repair industry, they tend to get a bit lazy.
Dr Terry
Lazzy you dont know the meaning of lazy.... just had the WH pink slipped, the guy walked around the car, checked the chip in the windscreen, took the rego papers, put them in the office & said ill be back in a min, hoped into his work car, came back, headed back into the office , then came out a min later & proceded to hand over the slip, I said what the ffff, you aint done the brake test, or looked under the car? he said dont need to looks good from here.. I was stunned, took the paper work & headed to another inspection centre, where it passed ok, but you never know, then onto the RTA to drop him in it... moron didnt seem to realise or care, I have my kids in that car... HOLDEN The Great Way to Move |
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When they check your brakes for a warrant of fittness do they still use the rollers you drive onto or do they have to take the car round the block like here .(Aus)?
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At the VTNZ (government inspection agency) brakes are done on rollers and the headlights are done by a wee box of mirrors that they line up with headlight, turn them on and the beam displays against a crosshairs that indicates whether it is aimed to the right (failed warrant) or above the horizontal (failed warrant).
VTNZ are useful in that they inspect but do not repair, so there is no benefit to them for failing the car to geenrate repair work. However, they do get a bit stuffy about strange items that take a while to either a) talk them around or b) get appropriate paperwork to tell them to bog off.
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I thought VTNZ do their brakes that way (dont want the hassle of going for a WOF with them). At the mech shop I used to work at we just took it for a drive with a hand held inertia device. Ya do a bit of heavy braking and it tells you how good they are. Think most run of the mill garages do it that way (Id hate to think how expensive the rollers are).
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The rollers were in auckland ,dont really rember the headlight test then again it was 1974 .
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