There's like a bottle cap like thing on the rear of the headlight with spikes to it. Use a phillips screwdriver and rotate the bottle cap thing from the top. This will allow the beam to move in a vertical direction.. It will take some time to do this but it will move.
theres also a metal rod somewhere on the rear (hard to get to), this allow the beam to move horizontally.
Just showed this to the OH & he says thats how to do the main beam, its the dipped headlights that need aligning, I might just have to wait until the mot & ask them to do it :-( (if they can!)
sorry to say but i had this issue with my angel eyes last summer. i took it to a garage and what should of been an easy two minute job turn out to be a nightmare. this cog thing didnt move the the beams enough. they both were too low and would not reach the mot beam requirements. basically i was told at mot time it would fail on this.
this was why i had to sell them and opted for some smoked facelifts. main bonus here is the fact that they have all the normal vauxhall aligning allen key holes etc. so its pretty straight forward to adjust.
plus at the moment your driving around with lights that arnt safe for you.
Mine angles failed this morning because they set to low
the garage said they tried to adjust them but the cog didnt do anything.
(they were turning the main beam one)
After while moaning to the ebay shop i bought my phase 3 angels from
he told me that the cog for the dipped beam is quite hidden
and not as obvious so see as the cog for the main beam one.
If you your looking at the car from the front,
go to the left side of the angel light, and look behind it,
go to the left of the main beam cog (the one you can see easily)
and underneath the bit of metal there is a cog that is thin and sticks out quite a lot!
this is the adjuster.
Thank god i found it, really didnt want to lose money selling them
I raised the lights about 4 inches so hopefully it will pass next time i go.
Hope this helps anyone whos having trouble
cheers
CurtM
Hi , sorry for the megga late reply. here are the pictures as asked *NOTE, for adjusting phase 3 angels only*
How it looks from above, and what most people think is the adjuster staring you in the face
The real adjuster hidden
Sorry about the quality of the images, iphone shots,
also, i found it very difficult to access the adjuster, so i had to remove the lights to get to it. ITS VERY HIDDEN!
I did manage to do it myself, as the garage didnt know how,
jus park up your car against a wall and get some electical tape
and mark up on the wall where the beam of light currently goes, then adjust it so its about 4/5 inches depending on how low they are in the first place
It then passed after doing this
You Have Saved Me Alot Of Time Because Mine Were Well Out Aswell Thanks
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