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Adjusting your headlights is not only a necessary step after the installation of any lift, it’s also one that will help keep your lights out of the eyes of on coming traffic and their flashing high-beams out of yours. Fortunately, this is an extremely simple procedure and one that costs next to nothing to do. In fact, the only things you will need is a Torx T-15 driver, a 25′ tape measure, blue masking tape, a long flat surface (like a driveway), with a straight vertical surface (like a garage or wall) at the end of it and of course, a little darkness. |
What you will need
• Torx T-15 Bit
• 25′ Tape Measure
• Blue Masking Tape
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Instructions
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1. Park your Jeep JK Wrangler straight back 25′ away a garage door or wall. Then, affix a strip of blue masking tape 3′ up from the ground. If you’ve just lifted your Jeep, you will see that your headlights are pointing above the tape as shown in this pic. |
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2. To adjust your Jeep JK Wrangler’s headlights, you will need a Torx T-15 driver as shown in this pic. It is important that your driver is a stand alone tool and not an interchangeable universal driver that allows you attach different bits to it. Drivers of this nature will be to thick in diameter and will prevent you from accessing the adjustment screws. |
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3. Insert your Torx T-15 bit into the adjusting screw slot which is located on the outside of your Jeep JK Wrangler’s headlight. On the passenger side, this will be located at about the 10 o’clock position and on the driver side, at the 2 o’clock position as shown in this pic. |
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4. Using your Torx T-15 driver, turn the adjustment screw counter-clockwise until your headlight is pointing just below the blue tape on the garage or wall you attached it to. |
And that’s all there is to it, you’re done. You now have a Jeep JK Wrangler that is lifted and has headlights that isn’t blinding on-coming traffic anymore.Please let me know if you have any questions.
PLEASE NOTE: This write-up is based solely on what has worked for me. Since adjusting my headlights using this method, I no longer get people flashing me with their high beams, I can see the road in front of me better and my high beams actually illuminate further down the road as opposed to pointing at the sky. If you disagree with the method I have described here, please, DO NOT follow it. |
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Eddie, I always measured from my headlights to the ground. I then used this measurement minus about 3″ to mark on the wall. This way, the lights are adjusted specifically for that vehicle. What do you think? If you always use a fixed measurement, then you actually would be reducing the lighted portion when you lift a vehicle.
while that makes sense, no two lifts are the same and many are actually designed to “level out” a rake - essentially bring up the front end to give your jeep a more level look. in other words, if you were to just lower your lights by 3″, they would still be pointing further out and higher than they were or should be. the 3′ guide is intended to keep your headlights just out in front of you like they were stock, out of the rear view mirror of most sub-compacts and sedans and out of the eyes of on-coming traffic. depending on how tall your jeep is, 3″ down from where you were would most likely still put your lights too high.
I drive a 2007 JK Sport (export model) in Russia.
This wrie-up does not work for me, since I have an electric headlight leveling. My JK simply doesn’t have such adjusting screw slots.
Decided to do the adjustment myself and thoroughly examined mine headlamps! Now I know how to adjust the headlights on JKs equipped with the electric leveling.
There are some little white plastic wheels on the headlight block from under the hood. If turn these wheels, the level of the beam changes.
Thanks wayoflife, this works great. After my lift my headlights have been bothering other drivers. I didn’t realize it was so easy to adjust the level of the lights.
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I’m about to adjust my lights on the weekend. My question is, if I have a torx bit with a interchangeable driver. If I remove the front grill can I use this type of shrew driver? as I don’t have a stand alone driver.
Thanks
yes, if you remove the grille, you can make the adjustments you need with the driver you have.