Thread: Leveling my lights..

• How to Correctly Aim Headlights on a 97 Grand Prix

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Things You'll Need

• Tape measure
• Masking tape
• Screwdriver

Instructions

• How to adjust headlights on a Pontiac Grand Prix
  
  
  • 1 Pull your Pontiac Grand Prix to within 25 feet of a flat wall, like a garage door. Park the vehicle on a flat, level surface.
    
    
    
  • 2 Measure from the ground up 4 feet on your flat wall and using the masking tape, place a horizontal line across the wall. The horizontal line should be a little wider than the width of your Pontiac Grand Prix.
    
    
    
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  • 3 Locate the center of your vehicle bumper and transfer that position to the horizontal masking tape line on the wall. Using the masking tape, make a vertical line across the horizontal line in the position that represents the center of your vehicle's bumper.
    
    
    
  • 4 Measure from the center of your vehicle's bumper to the center point of each headlight. Transfer those measurements to the horizontal masking tape line in the same manner that you transferred the center point in Step 3.
    
    
    
  • 5 Open the hood of your Grand Prix. Locate the adjustment screws on each headlight. The vertical adjustment screw will be on the top of the headlight and the horizontal adjustment screw will be on the lower outside edge of the headlight.
    
    
    
  • 6 Turn the headlights on and set them so the low beams are showing. Using a screwdriver, adjust the screws until both headlights are centered on the horizontal and vertical center points you created with the masking tape. When they are centered, turn the vertical adjustment screw until both headlights are showing the top of the light, across the horizontal tape line.
    
    Your done!!!! hope this helps.
    
    
    
  
  

Originally Posted by BlackGT1

Thanks Pilgrim!

No problem!!! (Off subject but) Fort worth huh!! I was born in Dallas

That's is what I usually do^ Except first I drive my GP up to the wall to mark the horizontal line level with the center of the headlights, and then I don't level them vertically with the tape line you make, I adjust it so the top cutoff for the lowbeams are about 3 inches below the tape, gives good visibility and no blinding other drivers.

I just did it to by buddy's Jeep as his lights were aimed so high that they acted like high beams (luckily his lights aren't very bright to say the least), and since his Jeep only allows EITHER low or high beams not both (I still don't understand this design, maybe insufficient electrical?) his high beams were literally just aimed into the trees... ?!

And whatever you do, if you get brighter headlights, even if you have the urge to do so, don't get anything but halogens. HID's filaments are in a slightly different spot than halogens, so you get a horrible light pattern and blind drivers, damn trucks in my area do that **** all the time. That's when I get 'em with the LED tailgater switch If you ever go HID, do a projector retrofit.