Is it necessary to re aim your headlights after installing HIDs, so you dont blind people? If so, would you say aim them more toward the ground? I am just looking for people who have already gone through this, and tring to see what they had to do. Thanks.

 

i only adjusted my headlights after lowering the car. if you are just installing an HID kit, it wont be necessary.

 

I pointed mine way up after installing them...the light was super bright on the ground but didnt reach as far as Id liked. Raised them up a bit and now the world is lit up. Didnt increase glare much at all either.

 

After you aimed them up, did you get alot of people flashing their high beams at you? Did people flash you before you aimed them up?

 

None before or after. Theyre not blinding and dont really have the "hotspot" problem that so many speak of. It seems to be pretty evenly distributed to me...maybe when I take a picture and stare at it Ill see what people are talking about, because Ive definitely seen it when others post pics.

 

http://www.autooptiks.com/aiming.html

 

I aimed mine up after putting in the HID's. The farther up I aimed them, the better the beam pattern coverage became. People flash me....sometimes.

 

The high side of my cutoff is just barely below parallel to the road. This ensures that it will never blind other people, unless I am coming over a hill or something. If the cutoff is any higher than parallel to the road, it WILL blind people ALL the time. Thus is the nature of projector headlights.


Modified by PatrickGSR94 at 2:17 PM 7/17/2003