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Model specific boards => Golf mk5 => Topic started by: SteveS on 21 November 2007, 23:24

Title: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: SteveS on 21 November 2007, 23:24: can you adjust the headlights yourself? mine point down too much and i want to raise them up a tad.
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: 08micsta on 22 November 2007, 08:22: Not sure. CAnt help. Sorry
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Cass on 22 November 2007, 09:42: Factory Xenons are self levelling and AFAIK, can only be adjusted by a dealer. Not a DIY job. You can self-adjust for RHD and LHD though. Link here:

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=51636.0

I have Xenons and occasionally get flashed from other drivers, but the lights are correctly set, they are just brighter and this confuses some people :laugh:

Cass
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Ridg on 22 November 2007, 09:48: you should be able to do it with VAGCOM

the MK4 xenons were fully adjustable using fine tuning screw (you could adjust horizontal / vertical)

if i was you i'd either find someone with VAGCOM or go to the stealer
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Makaveli on 22 November 2007, 10:08: I get flashed all the time in the Ed30 whereas in the S3 no-one flashed me ever. They must be much brighter or set a tad bit higher in the golf than the Audi.

Very annoying when this happens and I may resort to some double digit action on these mofos if it continues - don't say I didn't warn anyone :shocked: :tongue: :grin:
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 11:49: i aint been flashed and they hardly shine on the car in front.. infact they dont really reach the number plate unless im a meter from the car... they are too low i think, i told the dealer looks like they moved em down more!!
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: AlanD on 22 November 2007, 12:01: HATE people who have xeon lights too high, does my nut it, its like they have their full beam on.
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 12:03: well mines more so i can actually see whats going on in front of me, not just on the floor! lol

are they only adjusted thought a computer then?
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: AlanD on 22 November 2007, 12:04: Quote from: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 12:03
are they only adjusted thought a computer then?

I dont know this for a fact, but it would make sence. Otherwise any tom dick and harry could adjust it and blind everyone.
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Ridg on 22 November 2007, 12:22: Quote from: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 12:03
are they only adjusted thought a computer then?

like i said earlier the MK4 ones were adjustable either through software or using a torx driver, i'd expect the MK5 to be the same. becuase the sensor is only going to do up and down, so you would need some way to adjust side to side.

have you looked at the back of the cluster to see if there are any screws / adjusters?
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 12:53: nope but i will and report :p
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Pintman on 22 November 2007, 16:20: Can't remember off the top of my head but on the top of the light housing, there is a hexagonal nut/ hole with U and D on. Self-explanatory, turn one way for UP and the other way for DOWN.

Mine were too high, so high that the drivers in front had to flick there anti-dazzle mirror on. Moved then both half-a-turn downwards and all is okay.
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Post by: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 16:23: nice one, been raining all day so will check when dry :D
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Post by: TagnuT on 22 November 2007, 19:56: Quote from: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 11:49
i aint been flashed and they hardly shine on the car in front.. infact they dont really reach the number plate unless im a meter from the car... they are too low i think, i told the dealer looks like they moved em down more!!

Mine are just above the number plate/below the rear window of a mkv golf at a safe distance.
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: SteveS on 22 November 2007, 19:58: im sure mind arnt right then...
there was a r32 behind me the other day, and the zenons from that shined enough into the cabin, so his were DEFO much higher thaen mine
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: KentBladeboy on 23 November 2007, 06:47: As mentioned above, 6 mm hex driver and adjust up or down, best lined up on the flat against a wall or garage door. This also works for driving on the continent, usually 1.5 to 2 turns from normal setting, but it only takes the beam pattern from flicking up on the left (ie highlighting the kerb) to flat, it does not then flick up on the right, but saves truck loads of cash going to the stealer.
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Ridg on 23 November 2007, 09:13: Quote from: KentBladeboy on 23 November 2007, 06:47
This also works for driving on the continent, usually 1.5 to 2 turns from normal setting

both the MK4 and MK5 xenons have a switch to set them for LHD / RHD but you really need hands the size of a small child to switch it with the cluster in place.
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: Bustwell on 28 November 2007, 16:39: Wouldn't be the same problem the MK4's, A3's and S3's suffer where the self levelling motor gives up and they keep pointing to the floor. I had this problem on my S3 twice and seems to be a very common fault with the guys across on the Audi forum. IIRC the motors are about Ã‚£40 each
Title: Re: xeon light adjustment?
Post by: SteveS on 03 December 2007, 16:08: just to confirm, at the back of the xenons there is a screw with U <--> D, up and down...

cheers