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Old 06-21-08, 01:07   #36 (permalink)
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Re: HID lights

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Originally Posted by RZJZA80 View Post
are all headlights not adjustable? ... I've never seen HID's in a car that couldn't be adjusted down and worked perfectly.
Adjusting won't solve the problem if the reflector/lens messes with the output in certain ways. I had a conversion like this on the M3 at one point and no matter how you adjusted the lights it was never right for both the driver and oncoming traffic. The reflectors (made for the characteristics of regular halogen bulbs) scattered the HID's bright light in ways that was very irritating to anybody looking at them.

How lights behave is primarily a matter of the reflector and lenses working *in tandem* with the bulbs...the combination simply has to be right or all the up/down right/left adjustments in the world won't fix it.
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