Check Your Aim

Stitch · 11-27-2004, 08:18 AM

I was one of those Titan owners getting flashed all the time for blinding oncoming drivers. I have stock bulbs and no lift ..so what's up here?

I decided to check the headlight aim per the instructions in several posts.

My driveway is "pretty" level but being the anal retentive moron that I am- a tape measure wasn't good enough.

I picked up a Black & Decker laser level & stud finder, very useful. It will project a self leveling line out both sides. I pinned it to a short 2x4 and adjusted the height until I got a line even with the headlight center. The other side shot onto the garage door @25' away. Did both lights marking the garage door with tape.

Turned on the lights - no wonder I was getting flashed!

They were aimed a good 14" high!

The adjustment screws are 7mm and you crank them clockwise to lower - counter to raise.

Check your aim - cause Nissan sure didn't!

*OnebadSE* · 11-27-2004, 10:15 AM

14" too high and you wouldn't see a thing at night but trees! You're getting flashed because the truck sits so high and the headlights are much higher than in a car. Just get behind someone at a stoplight at night, you'll light the interior of their car.

keiffers · 11-27-2004, 02:34 PM

good chance that the people who were flashing you are the people that are driving sub-compact or compact cars (Metro, Civics, etc). I used to hate it when I had my Civic's, cause I was always getting the deer in the headlights shot from other vehicles. It's partially their own fault for having a car that sits so low to the ground compared to trucks, like the Titan, that sit a good deal higher. Not to say that lights aren't off kilter (can be cause by various reasons), but geeez they need to stop freaking out at that sort of thing.

honeykeeper · 11-27-2004, 03:15 PM

I believe you guys hit it on the head.....Titan lights are much higher than car lights...but checking the adjustment is a good idea....another one for the list of to-dos.

Treebasher · 11-27-2004, 03:26 PM

I had the same thing. I was getting flashed by every other vehicle. I even had a semi go Vang on me and swerved behind me to flash his lights at me (Vang is the name of the guy that went postal in northern Wisconsin and shot those deer hunters).

I was still in denial, thinking the lights were just that bright, until I noticed that with the high beam lights on I could see the tops of power poles. Just a bit high... I just pulled up to a wall and lowered it about 4 inches.

I haven't had a problem since and I can still see just as good as before.

TYTAIN · 11-27-2004, 05:54 PM

I had people mad at me also, not compacts either,full size trucks, finally pulled up to the garage door and lowered them not one mad person since!
And for checking the AIM is there anything that works in the mens room seems to be problems with the AIM for some of my co workers there. I guess we need that sign to put up " Our AIM is to keep the bathroom clean, your'e AIM will help" hahaha!!!!!!!!: