Main beam alignment

[Sandspider]

Hi all.

MOT booked for next week, so just replaced the nearside bumper light (main beam and sidelight). This all works fine, but I'm just wondering how the lights should be pointing?
I.e. I put the headlights on, all works fine (general light in front of the car). I put the main beams on, and a patch of bright yellow light from the drivers side of the car hits the road about 2m ahead of the car on the right, but nothing similar happens from the passenger side. The passenger side main beam bumper light does work, but I'm not sure where it's pointing. On further investigation, it seems the bright patch from the drivers side may actually be coming from the main beam bulb (H4) in the pop up light. Just wondering how to adjust the angle of this (I had a look in the manual, and I know there are 4 screws to remove the pop up light, but it didn't mention adjustment), and also where the various beams on your cars point and should point?! It would be an arse to fail the MOT due to a light pointing in the wrong direction. (And no I don't have access to the light guage the MOT testers use, but it would be useful to know roughly where the beams should point...)

Cheers,

Giles

Edit - I did try the search, but got nothing useful.

 

[Sandspider]

Edit again - I've found how to adjust the pop up lights in the online manuals, but not sure how they should be adjusted! I assume that they shouldn't be pointing as they do...?

Thanks,

Giles

 

[Diver944]

A very rough (but useable) adjustment can be made by parking on a level surface 20 ft away from a non reflective wall at night. Turn on the lights and adjust the horizontal cutoff beam so that it is the same height from the ground as your rear number plate. Adust the left/right so it's pointing very slightly left of centre.

Both of these adjustments will not cause dazzle and at least get you through the MOT. A friendly MOT station should let you adjust your lights to the optimum position on their equipment for beer money

 

[Sandspider]

Thanks Paul - will have a play, it all helps. Not used this particular garage before (council test centre so no reason to fail me to fix things hopefully!), so not sure how friendly they'll be.

Cheers.