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setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:46 am
by dave-g
hi guys, hoping somebody can help me out here, i put some coilovers on my car a couple months back, and now the dipped-beam lights are poop!!! i tried to leave it as i have no clue on how to adjust them, so how do you do it? does it have to go to vw and be computer aligned or something??
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:22 pm
by Si_GTi
Yep, took mine to VW as the system has to be re-levelled. If you adjust the xenons using the adjuster on top of each headlight, it reverts back to factory position after you turn the ignition off and on again IIRC. VW could charge anything from £0-20! It only takes a couple of minutes.
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:55 pm
by dave-g
cheers mate, so is it just done via vag-com??
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 8:39 am
by neilGTI
I did mine using vag com, but i cant remember how i did it now as it was about a year ago
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:18 am
by tegwin
Yes its done by vagcom..... Not difficult! PM me and I will see if I can find the insutrctions later.... they are on the ross-tech website somehwere...
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 8:31 pm
by HookeR
ive got the same problem, went to the vw dealer in ipswich and they want 30mins labour which is £35 + VAT! anybody got a VagCom near Ipswich?
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:13 pm
by Tim_GTi
HookeR wrote:ive got the same problem, went to the vw dealer in ipswich and they want 30mins labour which is £35 + VAT! anybody got a VagCom near Ipswich?
That's ridiculous. It takes minutes. If they charged me that I'd make them wait there doing absolutely nothing for half an hour, as that's how long I'd paid them for.
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 4:57 pm
by Tom W
I took mine to VW had them to have them sorted and they said they were at their highest setting :S anyway they were still pointing too low so i adjusted then manually and they have been fine ever since, never moved or reset so i'm not sure if mine are buggered but the manual option worked for me
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:05 pm
by dave-g
daft question.......... wheres this adjuster on the headlight to? lol
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 4:37 pm
by alexperkins
There is two. Theres one in the middle and one on the left/right depending on which side you are on. Look on the top of the headlight - there are two hole cutouts with a crosshead/allen key white nylon adjuster underneath.
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:40 pm
by joe2612
Maybe i'm the oddball here, but i just adjusted mine using the screws on the top of the headlights... and they have yet to self adjust themseleves back to the factory position.....
Re: setting low beam lights up after lowering??
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:18 pm
by alexperkins
Its not so much about the beam main adjustment - its about the auto adjustment which is load dependent.
This requires the autolevellers to learn the new home position for the lights to prevent them over adjusting and breaking the reflector off the adjusters - its very important!