Headlight adjustment By scooterran (Read 1,089 times)

[scooterran]

Someone please give me a hand on this one. I am now riding the scoot after dark and also late at night . At the present time riding at night I can count the birds on the top of trees. I need an adjustment for sure. The brights come to a dot that is about 20 yards in front of me. The dims are better than the brights but there is a dark area in the middle of the road.

[bobf]

Pretty tough to do. After I had taken my windshield and front covers off I decided to adjust the head lights. Similar to the older car lights. Three screws to turn for up down, left and right. I made a target on the side of a plywood piece. Pulled the scoot to about 20 feet back and aligned, had it on the center stand for stability and alignment.

The lights were so far off that the left light crossed the right light that close up. Kept adjusting till I finally got the left light going more straight ahead and the right light also more straight ahead. I was able to lower the lights to below the centerline on the plywood so I knew they were not lighting the trees up. Big problem was that I was turning those screws to maximum this way or that and never really got the light beams to be where I felt they should be.

I don't know if there is any attempt to align those lights at all. Not even sure they can be aligned by anyone. But at least for me, I feel that I tried and hope they will be OK if I ever need to ride at night.
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[scooterran]

For sure I'm going to do this after dark. I'm going to use the 2 car garage door and set the scooter back about 20 yards. Using a black 1x2 for a center point in the middle of the door and try to adjust from there. Just had an idea , ;-X . Cover one light and adjust the other. ;-X ;-X ;-X . Makes cents doesn't it ? Off work the next couple of days so I'm going to give this a shot one evening.

[bobf]

Post your results for the rest to see. Twenty yards seems to be a bit far as that equals 60 feet.

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This is a short article about setting motorcycle head lights. Probably close enough for scooters as well.

Correction for the way I set my headlights. I did NOT have it on the stand at all. Reading the post above I was reminded that I had it on the kick stand till checking the light adjustment. Then I would set it upright and I sat on it while seeing if the lights were adjusted. I never was able to get things to seem to be proper. Hopefully you are better than me.
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[scooterran]

Thanks bobf for the article. I still think making adjustments on center stand would be the way to go. This would make the light more level and maybe even a little higher. When you would take the scoot off the center stand the lights would drop a bit. We'll see what happens. If I can't get to this in the next few days , I will be on vacation next week and will give the adjustment a shot. Happy Trails

[quadrunner]

Not to jack the thread but I since we are in the headlight adjustment topic I have a question. How do you adjust the lights on the JCL MP250A. I put HIDs and the light of the low beam is too low.

[bobf]

Jul 17, 2013 21:11:43 GMT -6 scooterran said:

Thanks bobf for the article. I still think making adjustments on center stand would be the way to go. This would make the light more level and maybe even a little higher. When you would take the scoot off the center stand the lights would drop a bit. We'll see what happens. If I can't get to this in the next few days , I will be on vacation next week and will give the adjustment a shot. Happy Trails

Nothing more correct than both wheels on the ground and a rider on the seat while checking the alignment. Yes, it does make you get off, tweak the screws then get back on. Your idea of doing it on the stand first would be good as then you can just tweak away till close and follow by a sit on two wheels and rider weight for final check and final tweaks if necessary.
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[bobf]

Jul 17, 2013 22:12:29 GMT -6 quadrunner said:

Not to jack the thread but I since we are in the headlight adjustment topic I have a question. How do you adjust the lights on the JCL MP250A. I put HIDs and the light of the low beam is too low.

For me, I wonder if the MP250 is the same as a MC 250. If all built on Chinese frames and plastics they may be the same. I don't know so won't make any comments.

You put in HID so you know how to get in there to work. I have no idea how the HID are assembled or if they have adjustments.

It seems lots of folks are doing the HID stuff so maybe an answer will come soon.
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[quadrunner]

I'm going to start poking it today. When I removed the front plastics to install the bulbs I saw three Phillips head screws that seem to adjust the assembly. If I can make it go up just a little bit I'll be in business.

[richardthescooter3]

They should be just like mine with left, right screws and up, down

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[bhinch]

I also installed HID's almost 3yrs ago and love the light. I go to work at 2 AM and this is in the country where there is no street lights. I installed 35 watt...5000k....H4.....Hi/Lo with relay....9003 and I have no problems with alignment. The OEM's just did not work had to strike a match to see if the lights where working....

[scooterran]

Sorry this is taking so long but I've been on vacation and away from home. Going to tackle this job tomorrow evening.. This evening I took the front plastics off and found that a plastic support for the light housing has broken off. It's the bottom post that is about 1 1/2 inches long. I really need this and I need to know if there is a glue that will hold tis peace in place. I'm sure this is part of my problem.

[fflintstone]

I also broke my light bracket tab off during a little wreck and I managed to drill a small hole through the tab and insert a small metal screw through the hole into the bracket --be sure to drill a small pilot hole into the bracket to accept the screw--surprisingly it is pretty sturdy...I don't think glue is strong enough--goodluck,fflintstone