From the top I'd like you guys to know I'm a complete noob when it comes to messing with cars.

Anyway, I've been noticing my headlights are... well, crap. Talking dangerous to drive at night kinda crap. There seems to be a lot of dark patches on the road where there should be light, if you see what I mean. The top half of the teeny tiny bit of illuminated road is a jagged mishmash of light and dark.

So anyway, I figure it's maybe the lamps fitted incorrectly or something. Are there any guides on how to check this? I'm going to check the alignment when it get dark tonight, and follow the guide on adjusting from the guides section.

Cheers

Hmmm - sounds like your Dipped beam bulbs aren't located correctly.

Behind your headlight you'll find in effect two plactic cylinders, one for the headlight bulb, and one for the dip beam light........

Twist the outer one (dipped beam) and move it to one side. You can only move it so far cos of the wires......

Now, the H3 bulb is held in by a thin wire clip. Unclip this to loosen the bulb in its holder. Now carefully ensure that the metal flat edge of the bulb is fitted tight up to the mouting metal face of the bulb holder, then refix it with the clip. Then refit the plastic cyliner by twisting it back in place.

Repeat for the other side.

Then you need to check the alignment - but adjusting the angle of the lamps.

The best way is to park up faces a wall at night - about 3m away. Then using the two adjuster screws for each lamp (head and dip - one each per side) you need to adjust the light so it shines level with the heigh of the lamp on the car. Using a wall makes it easy to line them both up together.

One screw moves the light up and down, the other moves it from side to side. Obviously you want everything pointing forward.

You'll need to check this for both head and dipped beam bulbs for both sides.

Hope this helps.

OK, so I finally managed to get the bulb out, it was pretty much fixed in there. Put it back in, and all looked the same, so I guess it was ok in the first place. So I adjusted the headlights as per the instructions in the guide, but to be honest it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference. I think the problem might lie with the lamps themselves. I know there are some tight constraints with power, but are there any lamps that operate at 55W that I could use that would give better results? The ones in there right now are the bog standard halogens recommended.

I'm not caring about how cool they look (sorry to all you fervent modders), I just want to be able to see the road a little better.

Thanks for your help

If it's any help mine were shit, so i had them re-adjusted at an MOT garage and they were aiming to low and to far apart, the lights are a lot better now just a thought.

If you wanna see, you need some PIAA bulbs then my friend.