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Aiming E-Code Headlights

I used the garage-door-and-chalk method with a piece of cardboard to cover the light I'm not working on.

Supposedly, you ignore the bubble levels but I found that's a good place to start. My bubbles wound up about 1/2 way between the middle line and the last line. The other adjusting screw, the R-L one doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

Like: Front> I-O-I-I-I
I found these links helpful:

http://www.cibielights.com/headlamps/aiming.htm

http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/headlight-aiming.htm

BTW, the Volvo e-codes are BETTER than but no match for HIDs. They're so much better that I had to check to see if my Volvo's headlights were even ON! Even the "old" round Hella e-codes are much better. Volvo just uses awful headlights, and it has since it converted the 240s to those plastic monsters.

Good luck!

-Samurai Jack



'98 V70T5M, 132k mi., iPd stabilizer bars, Volvo strut tower brace and skidplate, Bilstein HD struts and shocks, Valentine-1, Mobil-1 always, E-code headlight lenses, Michelin Arctic Alpins

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