Nobody worries about that unless you're the other guy coming in the opposite direction of the poorly adjusted headlights.
Or the person driving the vehicle with the maladjusted lights might worry about it if a cop coming in the other direction is having a bad day.
If you get more than a few headlight flashes from oncoming traffic, your headlights need adjusting.
If it's bad while we're in vehicle's that sit high imagine how bad it is in cars.
I ride motorcycles also. Having to look down or look away for any amount of time isn't good.
I've been wearing yellow tinted glasses for night riding for over 30 years. Even with those some of these non DOT approved LED's that just throw light everywhere and don't have a low beam cut off are still blinding. If you're going to use them at least try to adjust them so they're effective for you, but not dangerous for someone else.
Then I see guys with light bars and all kinds of lights on their bumpers running with everything on in perfect weather sitting in traffic. Really ??
Newer cars have become pretty intense from the factory. I was out the other night and was reminiscing about the old days when lightning was not very bright. I was encountering quite a few eye-waterers and thought maybe my eyes were getting more sensitive with age. Maybe, but more likely just a lot of improperly adjusted headlights from the factory.
While we're on the subject of the factory. What genius first came up with the idea of auto-on dash and headlights but not to include taillights ? People are cluelessly driving at night with no taillights because they're dash lights and forward lights are on. And it's not just one model or brand. High end cars are like this. I don't claim to be a smart guy but come on, it doesn't require a degree to see how unsafe this is.
I just think once dash lights come on for any reason, taillights should come on. Better to have the tail lights on than driving lights. It's easier to see that you can't see ahead than it is to see that you can't be seen from the rear.
A lot of this blinding occurs with less expensive LEDs that have poor cutoffs. If your getting flashed it's time for an adjustment, not just horizontal, need the vertical also.
+1 !!
Here is a DOT approved LED I put in one of my motorcycles. It has a distinct low beam cut off point and I adjusted it to regulation height. Not once has anyone flashed their lights at me and I can see just fine
I could not even imagine driving a car given the brightness of some on coming head lights. Sitting up is bad enough, but at car level, it would be brutal.
Let me tell you about another good reason for adjusted lights that can affect older folks - Starbursts!. Lights are not just bright spots where the bulb is, but the light splashes across the entire field of vision. This is due to a certain type of cataracts where the eye lens is beginning to harden. They can develop quickly and require surgery to remove the lens and replace with a glass lens.
A bright light is not just uncomfortable where the answer is to look away, maybe at the white line. A bright light literally is blinding and has to be waited out till it passes and hope for the best. Add raindrops on the windshield and the issue is multiplied.
I was one of the unlucky ones, I developed cataracts in my early 50's. At work I would go into a low light room and be totally blind. I would ask the other guys how the heck they could see in the dark and they would be like we can see plenty fine. And the starbursts at night of the on coming headlights was insanely annoying. Sure as shit I went in and my eye dr. who I have seen once a year for 30 years and is a personal friend said I had some incredibly fast growing cataracts on both eyes which was unusual for both to be growing so fast and essentially at the same rate. Had surgery and and was like wow I did not realize how dim the colors of the world had gotten. next morning I could not believe how reds and greens and blues were so bright.
Your $1.39 bulbs are too expensive. I got these Super Brite Xenon LED MAXXX bulbs from the dollar store that light up the tops of trees! Now everyone flashes me to say how awesome they are. /s
I live near where Warren Jeffs polygamous sect has their city. They feel they are above the law in everything and won't turn off their brights when driving. I'll flash my brights at them once and when they don't turn theirs down, they get the full KC gravity pro 6. F those people.
Works ok till you discover the vehicle you so gleefully blast with your illegal for on road use off road lights is law enforcement and then you face the consequences of your immature behavior
This is going to bother me now because I have looked far and wide... from Amazon to the deepest, darkest web (it’s yucky down there) and I couldn’t even find one single $1.39 LED headlight for my Jeep!!! If you are going to make posts like this we need LINKS damn it!!! :tomatoes:
I had a set of some awful LED lights with no cutoff and they lasted literally a couple hours on my Jeep. There was no adjusting them as they threw light everywhere, and lots of it! I did end up with some AO101 headlights and though they are a bargain (not $1.39, still looking) they have a razor sharp low beam cutoff. These have been great for 3 years now. There are some bargain headlights that work very well but there are certainly more that don’t.
This is going to bother me now because I have looked far and wide... from Amazon to the deepest, darkest web (it’s yucky down there) and I couldn’t even find one single $1.39 LED headlight for my Jeep!!! If you are going to make posts like this we need LINKS damn it!!! :tomatoes:
I had a set of some awful LED lights with no cutoff and they lasted literally a couple hours on my Jeep. There was no adjusting them as they threw light everywhere, and lots of it! I did end up with some AO101 headlights and though they are a bargain (not $1.39, still looking) they have a razor sharp low beam cutoff. These have been great for 3 years now. There are some bargain headlights that work very well but there are certainly more that don’t.
I'm annoyed that semi trucks have gone to LEDs. For now, I have an early-morning commute past a large Publix supermarket distribution center -- it's a heavy 24-hour stream of truck traffic. As those trucks get older and the non-fleet drivers start replacing their lights with truck-stop bargain-rack junkers (and believe me, truckers replace lights often -- I used to own a small fleet), the blinding problem is getting worse and worse. Much worse than the occasional ricer with $1.99 Autozone bulbs.
I put a leveling kit on my 14 JK as well as some 275 70R 17s. It has LEDs as well. I don't get flashed by folks coming at me, but I do sometimes get the poor dude in front of me at a light that doesn't have a tinted rear window and they go to fumble with their rear view mirror. I just turn off my headlights and run my fogs in the bumper and grill until I pass them.
So what's the low beam cut off point?? Is it a distance away or a certain height?? A quick how to would be greatly appreciated because now I'm self-conscious that I'm doing it wrong.
So what's the low beam cut off point?? Is it a distance away or a certain height?? A quick how to would be greatly appreciated because now I'm self-conscious that I'm doing it wrong.
To adjust your aim, you may need to remove the grill. Use a long T15 driver to make adjustments. They're located at 10 and 2 on the right and left headlamps, respectively.
I used the LED headlight aiming procedure found on JW Speaker web site. I have since lowered them about a half turn further since I had a small car flash there lights at me when I had significant weight in the back. I love my LED lights with the sharp horizontal cutoff but I'm against blinding anyone just as the OP's first post in this thread. I have these DOT approved LED's. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RXZJK6Q/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Sadly, it seems half the Jeeps in this area have headlights that are adjusted too high.
About the only vehicle that seems to have a worse record is the F150's around here.
Don’t forget, on JKs in the U.S. you only have one adjuster screw, which gives you up/down movement. To get right/left, which you should have (but Jeep thoughtfully doesn't provide), you need to go through the aggravating procedure of installing another adjuster screw on each light. Since that says 07-16, I don't know if 17+ has both. I had a 2015 and just did them again on a 2009.
Thanks. I'm loading my trailer for the Wheels and Water show in Marianna, Fla today. I'll pack the Torx, tape measure and blue tape to do it at the hotel tomorrow night. There's got to be a blank wall there somewhere.
And if you just bought a brand new vehicle straight from the dealer, adjust your headlights! Many of them come from the factory with improperly adjusted headlights and the teenaged techs performing pdi’s at the dealerships don’t catch that half the time.
And if you just bought a brand new vehicle straight from the dealer, adjust your headlights! Many of them come from the factory with improperly adjusted headlights and the teenaged techs performing pdi’s at the dealerships don’t catch that half the time.
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True^^^. I've been in the auto business all my life. I've seen it often enough to agree with cubnole.
Good Luck, L.M.
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