Never FAILS I search and your video shows up on TH-cam!!! Thanks again!!! The gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas! Need to replace front headlight covers what a surprise you happen to have a video on how to easily adjust the headlight beams!
Please don't blind other drivers. Per the service manual, the wall you're using should be 25ft away from the headlights. You measure headlight height on your car, then adjust it so the light on the wall is 2.1 inches lower than that of the headlight on the car. So if the center of the headlight on your car is 30 inches high, when aiming right at the wall 25 ft away, the light should not go any higher than 28 inches.
I don’t have a Manual. I’ve always adjusted 5-15ft away from something, zero issues. But if you want to get all technical. In this vid I observed the light movement and to Be honest, I’d say I went at least a few inches tops higher. Plus these are eBay lights, so they are a bit different than oem. They take more turns to adjust than oem because they aren’t machined 100% correct.
@@TheGerbsteve 5-15ft away is WRONG! You may not have any issue, but guess what... its not all about you. Respect other drivers and do it correctly so you don't blind others... shame on you for promoting the wrong thing AGAIN.
Johnny Turbo *_Well guess what mistakes happen!_* and besides you guys are all acting like you’ve never passed geometry, trigonometry, and calculus... While yes the degree of the bulb is relative to the wall, the height of his vehicle is also relative to the distance and height of the other vehicles. Remember this car is low, and Unlike other annoying people with correctly adjust lights with ridiculously blinding bulbs; the angle of which his lights and distance would have to be to blind you is rather insignificant. (Keep in mind “Johnny” this is the Scientific and Mathematical context of the word, not the context of morality)... Especially considering most people don’t have “chrome cabin roof liners”. Or did you forget that cloth used to make our economic cabin liners is not very refractive, nay “reflective”. -Sato
Johnny Turbo How about you try to be useful and constructive next time, or better yet, if you don’t like the videos. *_Go make your own videos about said topic, and take your Haterade with you!_*
@@SATO_FD2R you are 100% right.. that's why he should do it at 25 feet. At 25 feet he would angle it up to the correct height. It doesn't matter how tall or low the car is if you have it aiming at the correct location at 25 Feet ( but you knew that because you're soooo smart lol) . That's why you adjust it to that distance. So a tall truck may need to lower it to the correct spot and a low car may need to raise it to a correct spot. Like sighting in a scope. You sight the lights in to the 25 foot mark like you would sight a gun scope to the target. But again you knew that right? Since you thing you are a math wizz.. why don't you try this. Get his car or a car with the same height.. adjust the headlights at 5-15 like he says... then move back to 25 feet (the CORRECT distance) and tell us all how TO HIGH they are. Better yet make us a TH-cam on it since you claim to be the lol light genius . Bro just because you *TRY* to sound smart doesn't mean you are. You sound foolish really to a true car guy/ mechanic. To folks that don't know better your nonsense may be believable. Here i did your work for you.. for you and those of you who REALLY want to know how to adjust ur lights.... watch this! And if the car it to low adjusting it correctly may blind folks.. thats why there are LAWS on how low a car can be.. and that's one reason why.. SO YOU DONT BLIND people following the law. The other reason for car height requirements is so a "to low" cars bumpers are to low to be affective resulting in going under a car or truck or a car going over the back of the low car in a rear end collisions. th-cam.com/video/GWvSWBlAwnI/w-d-xo.html Or th-cam.com/video/qDudMM4J-ZE/w-d-xo.html You're a Clown dude. But now you're welcome With that. If anyone needs CORRECT car help/advice feel free to ask, and i will do my best to give you the CORRECT answer.
Damn, Gerb! There are so many professional Honda Certified mechanics in the comment section today! *_Yet, they still didn’t provided anything constructive. Guess they drank too much “Haterade” this morning!_* Keep up the great work Gerb! And before anyone shitposts this comment, remember he doesn’t need to tell you every little thing! You as the primary owner of a car need to do your own research into the exact specifications before modifying your own vehicle. SMH with y’all damn haters are strong in 2020
You da man! Saved me from many hours of trying to figure out how to aim my lights; thank you!! I just got custom housings with projectors and they are a bit low.
Always good to have this kind of content up, sometimes those screws are hard to find - and when we find them, they're broken! By the way, some aftermarket headlights can only be adjusted with hex drivers/sockets, and it's a pain. Cheers man!
I mainly made this vid to show you all where the adjustment screw location is. Ik! Mine are aftermarket, so they’re somewhat different than oem, especially the molding where the bulb turns into.
it really have to be horizontal ? like, the passanger one its supposed to be a little higher because of the road signs right, and the driver one not to high because of the against hand getting offuscated (i traslate that on google, sorry if its wrong, i'm trying not to make mistakes hehe), right ?
@Gerb My FA5 took a tow-hitch to the front bumper do to a dumb ass backing into me.. Question is my insurance is going to fix it but since my paint job was done by me are they gonna try and match paint or repaint the stock color? Thank you!
My aftermarket’s had to be adjusted with a 10mm ratcheting wrench; had to take out the coolant reservoir on drivers side and easy to get to on passenger side
how long does it normally take per light for it be noticeable that they moved. i think mine are off like 4ft or so….and ive cranked em but they werent lowering
@@noneovyerbusiness4909 so it does cause on my passenger side light my low beam it's like pointing upward and the high beam it looks like its pointing almost to the ground do you have any idea to fix this thanks
Actually you don’t want the headlights even. The driver side should be slightly lower than the passenger side so your low beams don’t shine too much in people’s eyes.
I understand the point you're making but this is incorrect advice. Oem low-beam reflector and projector housings have what's called a "dipped" beam which shapes the beam to dip it lower in the direction of oncoming traffic. This is on the left and right side so it is important that they are both adjusted evenly and at the correct angle. In a left-hand drive country the beams should both dip of the left side. The cutoffs should look like this: ,,,,/'''' ,,,,/''''
probably comes like that factory to avoid blinding oncoming traffic. well.. slightly to the right. shouldn't be majorly aimed right or anything.. if it's misaligned left/right most likely it was previously removed during some kinda of repair.
Johnny Turbo *_if it’s a “damn shame” how about you do something about it! Make videos about it instead of being an ignorant condescending pr*ck!_* But wait do you even own an Eighth Gen?
tell us how to do it then instead of leaving this just as unhelpful comment? legit these type of comments are so triggering. if you know it all then DROP A COMMENT with HELPFUL ADVICE instead of that ignorant crap.
@@jackhofalot6705 i left links on how to do it correctly in a different comment on this page. Its funny even when one provides the correct way to do it and why, some still just want to criticize (not speaking of you).
@@TakeMyHandle glad you agree.. because i did leave links.. to bad you decided to lash out at me before really knowing that i did just what you accused me of not doing. Take your own advice and offer something to help others, not just put them down or ASSume .
You’re awesome man, so excited to get my first manual car, and hoping it to be a 2010 FA5!!!
Appreciate you bro. You will not be disappointed with an Si 🤘🏼
*_THATS SO HYPE! You’ll love it!_*
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Perfect fix. I swapped out my headlight assemblies today. I had no idea this adjustment existed. They must have been set at full low out of the box.
Never FAILS I search and your video shows up on TH-cam!!! Thanks again!!! The gift that keeps on giving. Merry Christmas! Need to replace front headlight covers what a surprise you happen to have a video on how to easily adjust the headlight beams!
gotta love the 8th gen civic I have a 2010 honda civic lx great all-around vehicle thanks for the video upload very helpful
Can’t believe it was that simple. Thanks man. I got new Led and the passenger was really high.
Many thanks for your video, didn't know how simple it was to adjust the headlights 👍
Don’t let the haters get to you Gerb! Keep up the awesome videos!
And remember *_Never Stop Wrenching!_*
佐藤 - Satō Gerbs number one in my book...
Appreciate your time in doing this! Maybe mention where we can buy those long phillips drivers?
Bro I love your tag line! AN I NEVER WILL🤜🏻🤛🏻🤝🏻🤘🏻
Please don't blind other drivers. Per the service manual, the wall you're using should be 25ft away from the headlights. You measure headlight height on your car, then adjust it so the light on the wall is 2.1 inches lower than that of the headlight on the car. So if the center of the headlight on your car is 30 inches high, when aiming right at the wall 25 ft away, the light should not go any higher than 28 inches.
I don’t have a Manual. I’ve always adjusted 5-15ft away from something, zero issues. But if you want to get all technical. In this vid I observed the light movement and to Be honest, I’d say I went at least a few inches tops higher. Plus these are eBay lights, so they are a bit different than oem. They take more turns to adjust than oem because they aren’t machined 100% correct.
@@TheGerbsteve 5-15ft away is WRONG! You may not have any issue, but guess what... its not all about you. Respect other drivers and do it correctly so you don't blind others... shame on you for promoting the wrong thing AGAIN.
Johnny Turbo *_Well guess what mistakes happen!_* and besides you guys are all acting like you’ve never passed geometry, trigonometry, and calculus...
While yes the degree of the bulb is relative to the wall, the height of his vehicle is also relative to the distance and height of the other vehicles. Remember this car is low, and Unlike other annoying people with correctly adjust lights with ridiculously blinding bulbs; the angle of which his lights and distance would have to be to blind you is rather insignificant. (Keep in mind “Johnny” this is the Scientific and Mathematical context of the word, not the context of morality)...
Especially considering most people don’t have “chrome cabin roof liners”. Or did you forget that cloth used to make our economic cabin liners is not very refractive, nay “reflective”. -Sato
Johnny Turbo How about you try to be useful and constructive next time, or better yet, if you don’t like the videos. *_Go make your own videos about said topic, and take your Haterade with you!_*
@@SATO_FD2R you are 100% right.. that's why he should do it at 25 feet. At 25 feet he would angle it up to the correct height. It doesn't matter how tall or low the car is if you have it aiming at the correct location at 25 Feet ( but you knew that because you're soooo smart lol) . That's why you adjust it to that distance. So a tall truck may need to lower it to the correct spot and a low car may need to raise it to a correct spot.
Like sighting in a scope. You sight the lights in to the 25 foot mark like you would sight a gun scope to the target. But again you knew that right?
Since you thing you are a math wizz.. why don't you try this.
Get his car or a car with the same height.. adjust the headlights at 5-15 like he says... then move back to 25 feet (the CORRECT distance) and tell us all how TO HIGH they are. Better yet make us a TH-cam on it since you claim to be the lol light genius .
Bro just because you *TRY* to sound smart doesn't mean you are. You sound foolish really to a true car guy/ mechanic. To folks that don't know better your nonsense may be believable.
Here i did your work for you.. for you and those of you who REALLY want to know how to adjust ur lights.... watch this! And if the car it to low adjusting it correctly may blind folks.. thats why there are LAWS on how low a car can be.. and that's one reason why.. SO YOU DONT BLIND people following the law. The other reason for car height requirements is so a "to low" cars bumpers are to low to be affective resulting in going under a car or truck or a car going over the back of the low car in a rear end collisions.
th-cam.com/video/GWvSWBlAwnI/w-d-xo.html
Or
th-cam.com/video/qDudMM4J-ZE/w-d-xo.html
You're a Clown dude. But now you're welcome
With that. If anyone needs CORRECT car help/advice feel free to ask, and i will do my best to give you the CORRECT answer.
I bought a "long phillips head screwdriver" and it was too short. Can I just use my old ski poles?
I never knew how to adjust my lights,thank you very much for that idea
Damn, Gerb! There are so many professional Honda Certified mechanics in the comment section today!
*_Yet, they still didn’t provided anything constructive. Guess they drank too much “Haterade” this morning!_*
Keep up the great work Gerb! And before anyone shitposts this comment, remember he doesn’t need to tell you every little thing! You as the primary owner of a car need to do your own research into the exact specifications before modifying your own vehicle.
SMH with y’all damn haters are strong in 2020
You da man! Saved me from many hours of trying to figure out how to aim my lights; thank you!! I just got custom housings with projectors and they are a bit low.
Glad I could help a homie out 🤙🏼
Always good to have this kind of content up, sometimes those screws are hard to find - and when we find them, they're broken! By the way, some aftermarket headlights can only be adjusted with hex drivers/sockets, and it's a pain. Cheers man!
I mainly made this vid to show you all where the adjustment screw location is. Ik! Mine are aftermarket, so they’re somewhat different than oem, especially the molding where the bulb turns into.
Nice job I appreciate this cool, short but important video. Do you need a minimun 12" of driver blade to reach the adjuster area?
Didn't realize it needed such a long screw driver.. I thought my car was missing the adjusters 😂🤦♂️ thank you so much 🙏
where'd you get that screwdriver? I need one badly
That’s a real mans screw driver
Thanks a lot for this, my car failed it's MOT due the the lights being too low. Do you think a screwdriver half the size of yours will do the trick?
Great video. Accurate and right to the point.
Cool Thanks bro ., I recently replaced the headlights for LED lights , but it looks the same , so I’ll adjust them soon ❤❤❤😊😊😊
it really have to be horizontal ? like, the passanger one its supposed to be a little higher because of the road signs right, and the driver one not to high because of the against hand getting offuscated (i traslate that on google, sorry if its wrong, i'm trying not to make mistakes hehe), right ?
keep up with the videos man, i sold my si, unfortunately, but i'm always watch your vids ! i wish there was a channel like your for egs
Hoping to have more k24 content out soon. Thanks for the support 🙏🏼
@Gerb My FA5 took a tow-hitch to the front bumper do to a dumb ass backing into me.. Question is my insurance is going to fix it but since my paint job was done by me are they gonna try and match paint or repaint the stock color?
Thank you!
Sorry to hear this bro.... they should paint match your color if it’s through insurance. I’m not 100% sure though
Thanks man, it was helpful
Glad it helped
I bought new head light for Honda civic 2006 installed new led light one is up one is down would you mind to help me how to adjust it
Thanks I wonder if it works with aftermarket headlights
My aftermarket’s had to be adjusted with a 10mm ratcheting wrench; had to take out the coolant reservoir on drivers side and easy to get to on passenger side
how long does it normally take per light for it be noticeable that they moved. i think mine are off like 4ft or so….and ive cranked em but they werent lowering
They are probably stripped.
Good looks man
No probs
Does that adjustment for the low beams or the high beams or both? Thanks
That adjusts both beams since they are mounted in the same headlight bucket.
@@noneovyerbusiness4909 so it does cause on my passenger side light my low beam it's like pointing upward and the high beam it looks like its pointing almost to the ground do you have any idea to fix this thanks
One more thing I could only find one adjuster I thought maybe there was one for each
@@rickc9223how can you fixed that problem?
He said u need a foot long screwdriver and proceeds to use 1/4 of it ... Lol I love TH-cam
Actually you don’t want the headlights even. The driver side should be slightly lower than the passenger side so your low beams don’t shine too much in people’s eyes.
If only more people was as considerate as you. Where I'm from most people don't even dim their lights anymore, smh!
I understand the point you're making but this is incorrect advice. Oem low-beam reflector and projector housings have what's called a "dipped" beam which shapes the beam to dip it lower in the direction of oncoming traffic. This is on the left and right side so it is important that they are both adjusted evenly and at the correct angle. In a left-hand drive country the beams should both dip of the left side. The cutoffs should look like this:
,,,,/'''' ,,,,/''''
Theres no adjustment for high beam?
Thanks man, just what I needed to adjust my headlights
Glad I could help
Any thought on why the Driver side headlight aims to the right? There is no Left -Right adjustment?
I need a left-right adjustment too, anyone know how ??
probably comes like that factory to avoid blinding oncoming traffic. well.. slightly to the right. shouldn't be majorly aimed right or anything.. if it's misaligned left/right most likely it was previously removed during some kinda of repair.
You’re supposed to adjust it from 25 feet away from a wall
OnePoundBoost I don’t wanna sound like a dick but he’s misinforming others
Julien85 that’s why we have the comments section and google! *_We are a community after all!_*
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@@masloco35 he's been doing that since he started!! Damn shame
Johnny Turbo *_if it’s a “damn shame” how about you do something about it! Make videos about it instead of being an ignorant condescending pr*ck!_*
But wait do you even own an Eighth Gen?
What about left to right???
Only up and down? How obout left/right?😏
Is this low beam lights or high beam?
Bro I had no clue how to do that. I'm good with my FA5, but how to do it for the D17???
GOOD HOOD LATCH TRANSITION I LIKE THE CAMERA SKILLS NOW!
hey man can you a video how to "take off" like that! 💪
I’m going to start making TH-cam shorts, so I’ll keep that in mind..
Thanks for the help my hid's are a lil off...
My Auxbeams are wayyyyyy off. Don’t want to be that guy that blinds oncoming traffic and drivers in front.... o wellllll. Lol
Where did you get your headlights ?
Lasfit Man. Use Gerb10 for discount
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I just did It with a 10mm socket and twisted It with my hand lol.
mine does not work 💀
So you really only need like a 8 inch screw driver. Not some 30 inch one like you said.
He said a foot, his just happened to be 30 foot.
The John Holmes screw driver is not needed. Yeah it needs to be longer than usual but not like that.
I will say, this one is a bit excessive lol
Thanks!!!!
I don’t think my FD2 has that! *_It would’ve been a great little feature on Honda’s part though!_*
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That sure is a long tool you have.
Hahaha
All your doing is blinding other drivers😩
What does 8th Gen mean? Why not say “2014-2018” or something like that so that people can understand?
You’re doing it all wrong ,man. Smh 🤦🏻♂️
tell us how to do it then instead of leaving this just as unhelpful comment? legit these type of comments are so triggering. if you know it all then DROP A COMMENT with HELPFUL ADVICE instead of that ignorant crap.
Jack Hofalot my thoughts exactly!
@@jackhofalot6705 i left links on how to do it correctly in a different comment on this page. Its funny even when one provides the correct way to do it and why, some still just want to criticize (not speaking of you).
@@TakeMyHandle glad you agree.. because i did leave links.. to bad you decided to lash out at me before really knowing that i did just what you accused me of not doing.
Take your own advice and offer something to help others, not just put them down or ASSume .
@@jackhofalot6705 he did.. smh