05-13-2009, 08:54 AM
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Originally Posted by MightyBobo
So, something is driving me insane. Ever since I bought the car, its looked like the right side is aimed up too far, except that if you try to adjust it down, it never really does down. As if the housing itself, is too high or something. Now, i dont know much about HID's since this is my first car with them. Every other HID-equipped car Ive been in it seems has a perfectly straight line across - could one of my housings be installed/aimed too high?
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I've had Nissans and Infinitis with HID projector beam headlamps. The right side should be slightly higher than the left. This is to light up the ditch better so you can see any potential hazards, and the left down a bit to make sure you are not blinding oncoming traffic. It's completely normal. Since you've been dealing with halogens most of your time, you never noticed that they are too probably aimed like this, but they don't have as sharp of a cutoff that you'd notice. 2 Infiniti FX's and this 370z. Oh, and both of my parents drive new, supercharged Range Rovers, and they have the same pattern where the right is slightly higher than the left. Oncoming traffic will never even know because they never get a blast of your HIDs. The only people that may notice is when you're passing someone on the left, and if their car is low enough, that right beam might clip their mirror. Don't be mad... It's actually a nicely-lit pattern for you to see better. If you raise your left to match your right, you'll blind the traffic coming toward you.
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