Fix your low Q45 headlights!

[psychic_mechanic]

Have you tried to adjust your headlights only to find out that the adjusting screws are stripped? Are you tired of running over stray animals you can't see at night?

The headlight assemblies are attached to the car with two 10mm bolts towards the cener of the car. You can remove both of these bolts, put a washer or two between the headlight assembly and the core support on just the bottom bolt and tighten everything back up. This will slightly tip the headlights up, moving the beams up.

There are even cool bubble levels on the top to tell you when you have shimmed the light properly. I can probably post pictures of the "modification" if anyone needs them.

[fxjackso]

I see you have a 94. Does this apply to 90-93? Yesterday, I was adjusting the height, using the adjuster on the top, outboard side of the headlamp unit. I could feel that the whole assembly was slightly loose, but on the inboard side. It is not very accessable, and I had no time to go further. Anyone have a fix?

[maxnix]

Have you tried to adjust your headlights only to find out that the adjusting screws are stripped?

Really? Hard to believe someone could be dimwitted enough to do that! Hope his fingers fell off.

The adjustment affects the high beam alignment also.

[Q451990]

90-93 (or at least the 90) doesn't have the levels.

Heath

[psychic_mechanic]

It was the mechanism that was stripped and just in my passenger side light. I saw someone reply to something else with how their lights would not adjust, and figured there may be more cars out there like mine.

If your headlight is loose, you'll have to pull off the black cover over the assembly to see exactly what is loose. If you're lucky it's a loose bolt.

[squeefoo]

Mine was loose but it was the cheap plastic tang w/ the adj. assy on it that broke. Reinforced it with mending plates then wrapped it in a nice coat of J-B Weld -Squee

[elwesso]

Its the same thing on mine..... Fortunately they are already level so i dont need to mess with it.....

[AZhitman]

Mine were too high, but a set of Eibach's cured that.

[Jeff Williams]

The adjustment screw has a cheap plastic gear pressed on it. These gears crack, and the screw is useless. The adjustment assembly was just fine, on mine. Instead of ordering a new piece, I just did some "custom" engineering.

I actually took the assembly apart, and used a screwdriver, to spin the gear that tilts the lights. I had to do this a few times, to get the lights just right.

[sultan]

if i didn't work every freaking day in addition to school i would fix mine. they've been messed up for a very long time.

driving back from austin at 10pm(couple months ago) was pretty scary when i could only see 10 ft in front of me and there was no streetlights, luckily there is a lot of street lights locally. although this does prevent me from racing at night