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avander_be
09-09-2007, 10:54 AM
Hi All,

My Galant got poked in the eye by someone uncarefully parking in or out... so I had to replace the righthand headlamp 'cause the glass was smashed and water got in blowing fuses all over the place...

I removed the electronic levelling by giving it a twist and just pulling it out, I noticed it had a little kind of 'ball' joint which I pushed firmly into the new unit until it clicked and finished mounting.

After some testing I noticed that both units are now not on the same level... the new one is noticably lower than the old... so my question is: how do you synchronise both so that headlamps level equally?

TIA

Dr Zed
09-09-2007, 12:18 PM
Theres just a simple adjust ment bolt behind the lamps.

Gly
10-09-2007, 09:04 AM
i didnt know we had electronic leveling??!

its definately manual on my vr4 and 25st..

avander_be
10-09-2007, 09:44 AM
Theres just a simple adjust ment bolt behind the lamps.

I'll have a look, thanks and while I'm at it I'll make some pictures...

Paul Beazer
10-09-2007, 12:20 PM
I think there are 3 separate adusters for the main dipped beam. Prob worth taking it to a garage to get them lined up properly. Nothing worse than getting blinded by an oncoming car with one headlight pointing to high up!
are you sure the mounts are lined up the same. It doesnt take much to knock them out out alignment.

wirdy
10-09-2007, 10:53 PM
avander_be - You've just reminded me of a job I've been meaning to do - I have two headlight levelling motors in some spare headlamps but my car is a jap import so never came with levellers as standard.

The motors fit but I have no idea of the drive circuitry - there is a PCB in each motor so I'm reluctant to shove 12v into the pins.The wiring is not present in the engine bay either :bigcry:

/help Would one of you kind gents put a multimeter on the plug to see what voltage each beam setting gives you?. It may be a pulse & I'm buggered without some additional unit or something.

avander_be
03-03-2008, 10:28 PM
Still bugged with my electronic headlamp levellers...

http://www.avander.be/images/galant/leveller38.JPG
http://www.avander.be/images/galant/leveller39.JPG
http://www.avander.be/images/galant/leveller41.JPG

I fitted a new headlamp unit but it seems I cannot get the levellers working in pairs, any idea on how to fix them? In doubt, I tried to get a new one from Mitsu, but they were not able to come up with a reference for this item... if there's one lying around your shed, I'd be glad to hear from you.