Nash it's only the HID's and not the halogens; euro law requires washers and levelers on HID's, so you have to make sure the car is empty/level as well as the motors are zeroed when you do the static aim, else you might find yourself illuminating your bumper or overhead signs or something...
-- John W Reames jwrea...@comcast.net Home: +14106646986 Mobile: +14437915905 On Feb 17, 2011, at 12:32, dave walton <walton.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > Call me cynical, but I suspect they figured they could charge more and > keep people like us from diddling with it if it was somehow integrated > with the computer. > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Alex Chamberlain > <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Mitch Haley <m...@voyager.net> wrote: >>> Alex Chamberlain wrote: >>> >>>> My mind boggles as to why a computer's help is needed to aim >>>> headlights, HID or no. >>> >>> Self leveling headlamps? >>> Headlamps that steer, a la Tucker? >>> I think the Citroen SM had steerable headlamps in Europe but not in USA. >>> >> >> Right about the SM per Wikipedia, and I could certainly see D-B >> engineers wanting to integrate headlight control into a computerized >> active suspension system such as many of their models now have. (Car >> goes into a hard turn; computer stiffens suspension on the outside to >> reduce body roll, and turns headlights a little bit up and into the >> turn to compensate for weight shift and give the driver a better >> view.) >> >> But I thought John R. was talking about needing the scan tool's help >> to perform a static aiming, as it were, of the headlights, as opposed >> to the "draw a line on the wall 30 feet away and twiddle the adjusters >> until the beams look right" method. >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
