I did a search but did not find what I need for my stock C5. I need a simple "how to" on the headlight adjustment. The lights are poor, this had been said many times, so I did upgrade to Silerstars and there is an improvement, but the low beams are in the street, way to low. High beams provide decent lighting.
Any help would be appreciated!

Daneaux

 

try the 9005 conversion mod, where you use the high beams in the low beam socket.

more light will be there for cheap.

 

Thanks JDM ,

The dim's are still going to be in the dirt and the High Beams are like Aircraft Landing Lights on a 777! Beats anything I have ever seen!

 

make sure that the bulbs are seated correctly. I did the 9005 change..much better

 

Are there instructions anywhere on the adjustment of the beam direction. I will check the seating of the bulbs also!

Thanks for your replies!!!

 

I just installed T-84 Euro headlamps this morning. Here is the procedure:

Aiming your New Lights
To prepare the area you will be using for aiming, use a flat wall at least 25 feet in front of your car, and mark approximately as follows:
A garage wall or door works fine, as long as the ground in front of it that your car sits on is level.
Find the center of the headlight and measure the distance to the ground.
Mark a horizontal line on the surface (garage door or wall) using masking tape at the same distance from the ground.
Place a small piece of tape in the center of the windshield, and another on the rear glass.
Lining these up from behind the car, mark the center of the car on the aiming surface.
Measure the distance between the center of both headlight lenses and use this to measure from the center point you just marked on the surface.
Continue following the instructions below.
Raise the hood.
Raise the headlamps.
Remove the headlamp adjustment screw plug from the headlamp bezel. Reach under the headlamp bezel and push out the plug from behind.
Turn ON the low beam lamps.
Inspect the horizontal aim.
Adjust the aim using the horizontal adjusting screw, to align the break point (3) of the high intensity zone to the headlamp vertical centerline (1), within the range of 38 mm (1.5 in) to the left (5) of the lamp vertical centerline (1), to 38 mm (1.5 in) to the right (4) of the lamp vertical centerline (1) on the aiming screen.

Inspect the vertical aim.

Adjust the aim using the vertical adjusting screw, to align the upper edge of the beam horizontal cut off line 114 mm (4.5 in) below (7) the headlamp horizontal centerline (2), within the range of 76 mm (3 in) below (8) the lamp horizontal centerline (2), to 191 mm (7.5 in) below (6) the lamp horizontal centerline (2) on the aiming screen.
Install the headlamp adjustment screw plug. Push to secure.
Turn OFF the headlamps.
Lower the hood.

 

i just lower mine until i don't get flashed by the oncoming cars.

 

Me too.

I just peformed this mod a few days ago and posted my trials and errors in the tech section. First off, the 9005 bulbs fit differently than 9006 bulbs. And I'm not talking about trimming off the inside plug dividers and trimming the outside center mounting ear. So that was a bit of a surprise.

Getting the bulbs seated correctly was much more of a PITA than I would have thought possible. I finally got them in right by adjusting the seating with them turned ON, so I could see what kind of pattern they were projecting on my garage wall. Even now, I can see that the high beam on the passenger side isn't quite right and skews slightly to the left.

When the bulbs are in, the brights should appear right over the top of the low beam lenses.

But I digress. The original poster asked how to adjust the headlights and I'm not sure I saw if anyone answered him directly aside from telling him to make sure the bulbs are seated correctly. Even that is not enough as the Silverstars do aim lower for some inexplicable reason. There are two adjusting rods inside that circular flap on the headlight bezel that somebody DID mention. They use torx bits, but are easily stripped. Better to fix a socket over the outside of the fittings. The longer adjusting rod closest to the outside is for side to side and the shorter one, which can sometimes be a PITA to get to adjusts height.

Good luck.

Once I got mine dialed in pretty well, I'm happy enough with the conversion. For now. When I went on my ultimate test run on some quiet, dark country roads the other evening, I had a LEO on my tail, following me around, probably wondering who I was "signaling" with all my light flashes.