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Old 11-30-10, 04:13 AM
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Doing a retrofit is some much easier nowadays with those brackets. I remember when I did my retrofit years ago, I had to mount the projector onto the reflector bowl. There was so much more work involved, that's why it was so expensive.
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Originally Posted by Mr Jokster
might want to look again. They're all accessible. I'm not by my car at the moment to help locate, but every car has a 'pathway' to the adjustment or it would defeat the purpose of having them at all. I've adjusted both sides of mine with them on the car... so its possible. just gotta use a screwdriver from the top side, not the 8mm socket on the back side.

dont give up just yet.
Wait..... Its a screw????? I've been turning the heck out of those 8mm sockets on the back....... I need a pic of what screws it is.... Lol if I can get that I'm going to adjust it tonight. I had given up and was just going to continue blinding ppl lol
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Originally Posted by OT0814
Wait..... Its a screw????? I've been turning the heck out of those 8mm sockets on the back....... I need a pic of what screws it is.... Lol if I can get that I'm going to adjust it tonight. I had given up and was just going to continue blinding ppl lol
its not a screw. The 8mm socket has a sprag attached to the head. If you look straight down, you'll see them. You can use a flat head or phillips and it will turn it from the top. There should be holes on the body of the car (right above them) that you can stick a driver through to reach them.
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Originally Posted by Mr Jokster
its not a screw. The 8mm socket has a sprag attached to the head. If you look straight down, you'll see them. You can use a flat head or phillips and it will turn it from the top. There should be holes on the body of the car (right above them) that you can stick a driver through to reach them.
Ahhhhh ok going to go outside and get ate up by mosquitoes right now to try this. so a phillips head would work and u just turn it huh????
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yea that'll work, here are some pics for you:

if you look closely you see the sprag:




another view:




heres the other one which is a bit more tricky to get to, look closely, you'll also see the sprag here:





as you can see here, you have to get at it at an angle:





with both of these, you should see a hole of some sort on the frame of the car above it that you can stick a long screwdriver through
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sooooo I guess that i didnt cut enough of my bezel out.... thats why i wasnt able to adjust my lights properly.... oh well i guess this weekend ill be going back and fixing my error
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Yup i noticed the path for it. It was actually kind of clever... im amazed more and more with this car everyday at the ingenuity of the engineers who built them. man they think of everything

Originally Posted by Mr Jokster
yea that'll work, here are some pics for you:

if you look closely you see the sprag:




another view:




heres the other one which is a bit more tricky to get to, look closely, you'll also see the sprag here:





as you can see here, you have to get at it at an angle:





with both of these, you should see a hole of some sort on the frame of the car above it that you can stick a long screwdriver through

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Old 11-30-10, 06:22 PM
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by the way those headlights look like they been through hell and back lol... nah but thanks for the demo that really did help out a lot.

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actually, these are still open shells and not actually put together. Thats why they look that way. They're actually in good condition
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Originally Posted by OT0814
sooooo I guess that i didnt cut enough of my bezel out.... thats why i wasnt able to adjust my lights properly.... oh well i guess this weekend ill be going back and fixing my error
thats why you adjust the projectors all the way in so you cut enough However, better to have too little rather than too less
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