Spot Light Alignment

A lot of it all boils down to personal choice.
I take the vehicle to a long stretch of road at night, cover the headlight & then aim the driving light to how I like it, then repeat for the other side, but then I'm fortunate because i live in a rural area & have less chance of getting killed while I'm doing it!

fit them to the car and wire them etc... THEN go find a big wall and nose the vehicle up to it ,about 6' away is fine. then turn them on high beam with spots working,align the spots level with the high beam headlights and centralise them so youve got 4 definate lights reflecting from the wall all in a horizontal line.

all done...

I like to angle them a bit off to each side, to see any eyes and movement. But secure them properly whatever you do when finished, lest you incur the wrath of the sunburnt koalas :))

Nose up to the wall as per rredbeaks's reply is a pretty good start for basic alignment.

Fine tune the set up on a suitable stretch of road as per Shakers suggestion.

Basic Rule of thumb:

Long Range ( no diffusion ) lights - straight ahead with slight overlap of edge of beams.

Wide Angle ( diffused glass ) lights - as above.

Vary the setup to suit yourself and your driving environment. Pretty sure you can focus those Lightforce ones from pinpoint to wide angle ... someone who has them may be able to verify this ??? If mosty of your night driving is in town ... and you use driving lights ... go for wideangle beam ... most of the road dangers come at you from the footpath.



I have a pair of wideangle lamps angled slightly outwards for better roadedge visibility and a pair of long range for straight ahead.

If they are long distance driving lights then as above.

I drive in an area that has lots of sharp corners on bush tracks and need my auxiliary lights to be angled away on each side so that I can see where I am going to be heading as I turn into a corner.

Live in SE Qld, bit hilly.

Have two cibie super oscars driving lights, not spots.

Slightly crossed and one slightly higher than the other.
If I am not going around a corner, the road is going slightly up or down.

Bit of a pain out west on the straight roads, but don't get out west that often.

Live in surburbia and have a local shopping centre I go to. Line them up at about 30m. I sight through the back door to get a spot straight in front of the car, and measure the height of the lights on the bull bar and line that up with a spot on the building. Use some rags to cover the other lights and do one light at a time.

Check the front and rear suspension height, and adjust the air bags in the back when i have a load on to get the same height difference.

I usually go along to a nice long flat road and do the adjustment while standing in front of the other light.. that way you can see exactly where it is shining..

One thing that a lot of people miss is that a lot of light sets when bought out of a box have one clear looking lens and one with cross sections on the lens... when setting them up the ideal setting is the have the clear lens on the drivers side and the cross hatched one on the passenger.. reasoning is that the clea lens gives a more direct spot of light without difraction.. having this on the drivers side basically means that if you don't dip your lights off they are less likely to burn into oncoming drivers eyes... the other side gives a spot but also ambient light to the sides giving better side vision to road lines and the edge of the roadway.

cheers

Thanks guys for all your input,I was roughly in the ball park but some great suggestions

My lights cover's are only plain but have the amber ones also..



Cheers