Daewoo Matiz headlamp adjustment

If that's all it failed on they should have done it for you there and then, usually without charge. You can do it yourself but it's better to use the proper kit.

Si

Thanks for the reply. The garage reckons both the L&R adjusters are defective, but what I think are the adjusters appear to be working, and their description of the problem doesn't match what I see, so I'm trying to find for sure what the adjustment process is.

Can anyone describe height adjustment process, without having specialist kit?

yeah how long have you got, to be honest bung a couple of quid into thier tea break fund and get them to do it, you wont do it succesfully without the headlight beam setter.

here you go fella decifer this:

In message , reg writes

Yes, it was reading that that triggered me to post here. Last time I adjusted headlamps you just parked the car in front of a wall twiddled a set screw to set a particular height, that was some decades ago mind.

if i fail a car on beam settings, to save me time & the customer hassle i do them after the test, unless theres a problem with the adjusters, its all about good customer relations, i know our local ford dealer charges £6.00 to do it !!!

I failed on it aswell on my last MOT they wanted £10 to adjust it then I would get a pass. I paid, was a little pissed off about it. All it was, was a few turns of allen key.

were in business to make money, but some garages do take the piss, like you say a few turns of an allen key with no charge as a good well gesture goes a long way.

Exactly I would have ogne back to them for the next MOT now they can fock off. I'll take my custom elsewhere. BTW this was from a HI-Q place which was a MOT while you wait, took 90 mins before they even got to me.

I asked to see what was needing doing and told them that my golf has a beam adjuster in the car and the showed the guy he said problem is they don't do up or down enough as its a German car I said its a UK spec car not a German import. He then said I'll have to fail it or I can adjust it for you for £10, so I had my arse spanked a bit there.

I'll support my local garage next time, only used HI-Q as it was they only place able to do one at the time.

Well at least they didn't come back with a parts list of things that were broken that weren't.

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Quite so. Which garage are you likely to go back to next time - the one that twiddles it and mentions it in passing, or the one that stings you for a tenner?

Do these need regular adjustments? If it needs doing again after only one year then I'd be a bit sceptical as to whether it was done properly (or at all) in the first place.

No regular adjustments usually. Well not for the last 4 MOTS which ofund nothing wrong.

not normally, but i do find sometimes im re-adjusting aims i set last year, couple of reasons why, some of these auto adjusters seize, so after being fiddled with by the owner, they are left at the setting & get stuck up or down or the headlamp has been knocked slightly causing them to move on thier mounting brackets & the odd one where it has been knocked has caused the reflector to pop off its ball socket.