Aiming lights.

[Laura]

Personally there is nothing more annoying than a person who has their headlights aimed in the wrong place.

I am currently having this problem. and was wondering if there was a standard to aiming them properly.

[Falcon147]

Essentially, what you must do is to find a flat place where you can park 20 feet from a perpendicular wall, like a mall parking garage on a Sunday morning. Measure the height and center of your headlights, and then mark those spots on the wall in front of you. (I think the correct height is 26 Inches on stock Miatas, but I don't have one to use to test, and mine has been shall we say modified more than somewhat.) Your tire pressures should be correct and your gas tank maybe half full, if you want to be really accurate about this whole thing--which is, after all, the point of the exercise.

Now, measure two inches down from the horizontal, and you have found the low beam cutoff point. Next find the correct point directly in front of the driver's side light and mark that. The last step is to measure the distance between the lights and set your right-hand light accordingly. The light pattern will be a straight line to the aiming point, and then an angle upwards and to your right. The point at which the angle takes off is the aiming point that you need to hit.


Stolen from miata.net.. but it is the same for most cars :) I hope this helps..it's a little confusing tho :)

[Laura]

On a sunday Morning?... LMAO... that is silly..

thanks Falconeeeeee

[phatz]

do u know how 2 aim jdm's?

[Laura]

Yup.. its Very shimple...

isnt it the same as regular lights.. I have never aimed the OEM style light...

[Keith]

Originally posted by phatz
do u know how 2 aim jdm's?

Yup, I'll do Laura's lights this weekend... and I'll post pics on how to do it... sounds good bro?

K

[mito]

I dunno about you 3rd and 4th gen people but 5th gen has this bubble thing and if it's straight the bubble is in the center of 2 lines.

[Laura]

4th Gen, there are 3 holes that control the lights day running and High beams..
Passenger Turn clockwise to aim lights down
Driver side - Counter clockwise to aim lights down

Just use a long screw driver.

[Keith]

Sorry, didn't have time for pics... was it better Laura this time?