[civicsisedan]

Here is the rule of thumb that I have been told:

1. Find flat ground with a wall
2. Park 25 feet away from the wall (your headlights, not front of bumper)
2. Measure the height to the middle of your headlights from the ground
3. Walk to the wall
4. Measure the top of your cutoff
5. The top of your cut-off should be 1-1.5 inches lower than the height to the middle of your headlights was
6. Your drivers side headlights should be aimed slightly lower than your passenger side.

So to summarize:

At 25 feet the top of your cut-off should be aimed 1 to 1.5 inches lower than the height of your headlight bulbs

Hope that helped...

Different pictures of hid's on walls will have different heights as they are taken from different distances

And yes the easiest way to adjust them is to use a long screwdriver and stick it down the hole and adjust it that way.

 

[civicsisedan]

Here's some pics of my car, one with HID's in Halogen Housing, and then HID's in my retro's so you can also see the difference..

6000K Halogen Housing:

4300K Projector Housing:
1st pic is blurry but is same wall and distance as halogen housing
2nd pic is at different wall and different distance

 

[civicsisedan]

now i can def tell by that pic that my headlights left and right are screwed up... damnit!
if only they allowed that adjustment :-(

I posted that pic of my HID's in halogen housings a couple months ago when I first took that pic, and most people said that my cut-off was really clean and sharp in the halogen headlights compared to theirs and all of theirs looked a lot worse..

So I wouldn't worry about it. Just make sure your height is right from my previous post.

For some reason my headlights had a nice cutoff for halogen housing