Hello all. I am fairly new to this site and think it is awesome. I have only had my Magna for a bit more than a month and have noticed my left hand headlight is lower than the right on high beam. Can someone tell me how to adjust it. I noticed 2 adjusting screws behind the headlight but don't want to adjust the wrong one.

"Left" and "right" directions are open for interpretation, use drivers side and passenger side :)

Passenger side lights are supposed to be higher so I'm told.

Sorry. Left meaning passenger and right meaning driver. Thanks

Thats exactly how my corolla is, and mine was just re-aligned today. I think its possible they're supposed to be like that.

this is fairly normal

The left is lower to give higher visibility to things that may come from the side of the road i.e. wild life, and the right is higher to give the light a longer throw to scan for far away opbejts such as fallen trees further ahead. This is the normal set up and honestly i wouldnt change it.

However IIRC the adjusting screws are one for up down axis, and the other has something to do with left right, forgot which is which, but like i said, leave em be.

Shibbs

Thanks guys. I would leave this as it is but i think it is tooooo low as it is hitting the road right in front of the car. If anyone can tell me which screw adjusts the up and down it would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks guys. I would leave this as it is but i think it is tooooo low as it is hitting the road right in front of the car. If anyone can tell me which screw adjusts the up and down it would be very much appreciated. Thanks.

park the car square on to a wall of some sort, leave the headlights on and just adjust one of the screws, youl soon find which one moves it left to right and up and down.

be carefull not to adjust your lights too much "up" as oncoming traffic may flash you thinking your on your high beams and at that point, the light they are throwing wont be much use to you in shinig where you need it more

if it is dramatically lower then i would check that the bulb is sitting in the holder properly.

Good advise re against the wall (on 0 deg, level platform) adjustment - that's the best way to do it.
The light beams are like very open V shape. The point of the V is to be aligned with the car - in other words ensure it keeps pointing straight instead of left/right, that's the left/right adjusting.
Height wise, good rule of thump is to allow the beam to drop ruffly 1 cm per meter away from the wall - ie 10 m distance from the wall and the V point should drop about 10 cm.
There is no need to adjust the height (L to R) differently, the beams have different shapes, left side being slightly wider to cover bushes where squirrels and other beasts might rush on to the road.
Hope this helps.

Thanks for all the advice. I will try both of the screws and lift it up a little as it is annoying. Once again, thanks for all the advice

driver side is always set lower than passenger - driver side is set lower to reduce glare at oncoming traffic when lights are on low beam

Using the lights against a wall helps, as does a line on the ground to align your car, then pencil/chalk marks on the wall to know where you're moving them from/to. Takes a fair few goes to get it right, but you will get it.

Using the lights against a wall helps, as does a line on the ground to align your car, then pencil/chalk marks on the wall to know where you're moving them from/to. Takes a fair few goes to get it right, but you will get it.

il second that - make small adjustments, go for a drive to test (for light thats useful and light thats not blinding oncoming traffic) then come back and make more small adjustments.
when the other drivers start to flash you thinking your on highbeams, back the height down 1/2 a turn or so.

Failing all of this, take it to a workshop with a proper headlamp alignment tool. They set the correct angle of fall whatever the ride height, instead of guessing.

Also the headlamps are both aligned to the same height - not differently! This is why you have a LHS flare for RHD and vise versa (glare control for oncoming vehicles).

Line should be \__\_____

Cheers
Heath Young

Agree with heathyoung. Paid $13.50 to have headlights adjusted.

Both headlights are adjusted to the same height in vertical direction as said by heathyoung and Killer, only right headlamp is adjusted slightly to the left in transverse direction ( 13 mm to the left of vertical line at 3 metres distance from the Tester Focusing Lense )

Suggestions to adjust headlights at different heights left to right are incorrect (wrong) so please disregard them.

Adjusting headlights against the wall is commonly used but is as accurate as adjusting wheel alignment by using string.