| Geno1 |
I would like to know if anyone has experienced the following
problem with problem their HID headlights on their MO's.
When driving on a level but winding four lane divided highway
last night, speed limit 50, with no street lights or any other
vehicles ahead to guide by, I found that I wasn't able to follow
the curve of the road safely when the lights were on low beam.
The headlight angle adjustment thumbwheel was set so that
the headlights were at their highest, so that wasn't the problem.
Has anyone else experienced this and if so, investigated the
problem and or come up with any solutions, short of driving
around with the high beams on all the time. Has anyone had a
dealer readjust them, if that is possible.
Also posted this problem on FA. |
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| dgstan |
My first night drive sound like the same thing you're seeing. I took it into the dealer and had them check it (along with other things). They adjusted the headlights and things are much better now. The lights are comparable to the regular halogens I have on my 4Runner.
Doug |
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| Geno1 |
| Thanks for the input, Doug. |
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| Geno1 |
The overdriving of the headlights problem is fixed.
I looked for and found the white plastic headlight
adjusting screws located just behind the headlight
assemblies. A common blade screwdriver or socket
can be used to turn them.
I had to turn both adjusters two full turns clockwise,
to raise my low beams. Wow! what a difference in
nighttime driving. I can still lower them if I have to
using the dash thumbwheel, but they don't seem to be
annoying oncoming traffic yet. Which is great. |
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| mattsmurano |
| Mine were set low from the factory too, I had to adjust them up. Just have to thunb-wheel them down when I have a full load of passengers.... |
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| Kris |
| Had exactly the same problem. Quick adjustment and everything back to normal. |
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| Geno1 |
Hi Matt and Kris,
It kind of makes you wonder why these things aren't
attended to either at the factory or at the dealer. I
mean items like the headlights set way too low, and
tire pressures up to 55 psi. We're talking safety items
here. We should not have to do it!
Regards
Geno |
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| Kris |
Geno1,
you are right, but then again...life wasn't ment to be easy. Nobody is perfect....... |
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| rainbowfarm |
| I think that life was intended to be easy, but something went wrong with the plan. I think it had something to do with the government. Not sure yet. Still working on it. |
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| Kris |
Rainbowfarm,
I guess not only with government. Most likely with $$$. It seems to me that in our western culture we lost something – the everyday joy of life. We are constantly pursuing $$$ and perfection. We never are satisfied with anything………… |
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| Murano_MDX |
| hmmm seems this thread has been hijacked... :p |
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| Kris |
| Must be the Government.:D |
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| Murano_MDX |
quote:
Originally posted by Kris
Must be the Government.:D
haha i was gonna add that in, but decided not to... u never know who's reading this stuff! |
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| mtnmurano |
| Does anyone know what the factory (or state regs) are for aligning the HID headlights. I know they should target a standard pattern at a set distance measured by height and left/right alignment. I also want to raise my beams! |
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| Kris |
mtnmurano,
attached a scan from Nissan service manual. Hope it helps. |
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| Murano_MDX |
| notice the murano in the drawings looks really diff from the real one... was it drawn before actual murano was built? |
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| Kris |
| Hm.....interesting observation. I can see that the MO was dropped by 2 - 3 inches. Maybe this is the reason. |
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| mtnmurano |
| Thanks for the info, although it looks somewhat confusing. |
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| Enforcer |
| :o for one thing, what are the units? |
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| Kris |
| look at the first photo. Scroll to the right. You will see: mm(inch) |
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| Enforcer |
| gads...ok. What is the measurement from the ground to the cut-off? |
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| Kris |
H - x, where x depends on lights positioning switch - again see drawing no.1. For H - see drawing no.2.
Common Enforcer, you know this all, don't ya.:D |
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| Enforcer |
LOL!
I thought so. In general terms yes I know how to adjust and aim headlights. But those drawings confuse the stew out of me. I missed the units the first time, my bad.
But all I want is one stinking number. I want to walk out to a wall and measure up X inches and adjust the cut-off line to that mark. Why can't they just say 58 inches or 2 inches or whatever on setting 0 and be done with it? Why all the smoke and mirrors and twenty lines and fifty measurements? :3:
Guess I'm just impatient about something so trivial...
Thanks for being patient Kris. By the way...has anybody measured "H" on setting 0? |
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| Kris |
I guess for the same reason all manuals have 95 % of content written by lawyers:D
Beauty is in simplicity!
I did not measure. My driveway is not long enough;) |
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| Kris |
OK, Enforcer,
You got me thinking (something new for me........ha ha ha). H = 1850 mm (at least on my MO). From ground to cut off (light positioning switch at 0) - max 1795 mm. Vehicle 10 m from the screen.
Sorry guys, I am metric........and too lazy to convert to inches.........;)
Hope all clear now.........like air in Shanghai...........hi hi hi |
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| Enforcer |
Allright!
~71" at ~30 feet.
Close enough for me, thanks Kris.
:) |
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| hfelknor |
Really?
1" shy of 6 ft above the ground?
You are going to blind all oncoming drivers?
Homer |
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| Enforcer |
| Yeah well at least I finally got one number! |
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| Enforcer |
Ok I got bored tonight so I went and took some measurements (setting 0). I can't say the vehicle was level. At 30 ft. the left cut line was at 25" from the ground and the right was 29". I measured the center of the headlamp to be 33" so H=33". Using the drawing, the allowable range is H-3.19" to H-2.17". Which in my case is 29.81" to 30.83"...jeez. Say 30 to 31 inches. So my right is close to the bottom end of the allowable range and my left was below it by a good margin.
Oh, and the drawing requires you to be 33' away which would put mine even lower. But then level could have been off too.
So I guess "close enough" is in order.
Kris, your H can't be 1850mm, 1 inch still equals 25.4mm right? |
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| Kris |
All,
I guess Gremlins always work.
It supposed to be 850 mm (33.45 inch) and 795 mm (31.3 inch).
I have no idea how the 1 got in front of all the measurements.
:mad: |
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| Kris |
| Actually I prefer wine, the Jacob's Creek Cabernet Shiraz will do.......:29: |
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| Enforcer |
Ah Ok I see.
In beer math you escalate all results to the next order of magnitude and multiply by 2. In wine math you just precede the result with a 1!
:19: |
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| Kris |
| You know, in some place everything starts with 1. Especially after 1+ glasses of wine:2: |
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