Headlamp alignment

 Last night circumstances meant I had to drive home in the dark.   But when I switched on the headlights I was surprised to see they both focused on the curb about 20 ft in front of the car.   So it was an interesting journey, luckily very short.   Apparently they don't test headlight alignment any more on the MOT.

Luckily I don't need to do anything complicated to align them, I just grab them with both hands and move them 😀  So last evening I parked the car in front of the garage and turned on the lights.

The masking tape shows the height of the centre of the headlamp so it was obviously much too low.

 So I moved them up so the beam was just under the centre.  I also added another piece of masking tape to show the centre line of the car and moved them so they were still biased to the left but not by so much.

 

And this was them on ful.l beam.  It looks OK but obviously I need to do a full road test.

But they have to better than before