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Adjusting headlights - rest-of-the-world

vehicles
Procedure
Observe requirements for checking and adjusting → Chapter.
Vehicles with halogen headlights:
– Set knurled wheel for headlight range control to position “0”.
Vehicles with gas discharge headlights:
– Select function “Basic setting” in operating mode “Guided
Fault Finding” or “Guided Functions” → Vehicle diagnosis,
testing and information system VAS 5051.
– Select function or path:

Vehicle brand
Vehicle type
Engine code
55 Dynamic headlight
range control J431
55 Basic
setting
(Repair
Group 94)

– Continue to follow the instructions on the display of -VAS

5051B-.
All vehicles
(continued):
– Switch on dipped
beam headlights.
z The horizontal
light-dark border
should coincide
with the setting
line -1- of the
test surface on
the headlight
adjustment unit.
z The break-away
point -2-
between the
horizontal
section of the
light-dark border
on the left and
the rising section
on the right
should coincide
with the vertical
line running
through the
central point -3-.
The bright spot
in the centre of

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the beam should

be to the right of
the vertical line.

Note
 To make it easier
to find the break-
away point -2-,
cover and
uncover the left
half of headlight
(as seen in
direction of
travel) a few
times. Then
check dipped
beam again.
 If dipped beams
have been
adjusted
correctly the
centre point of
the main beam
should lie on
central point -3-.
 If using an old
test screen with
a 15° setting
line, the
adjustment
procedure is the
same as for the
test screen
without a 15°
setting line.
Disregard the
15° setting line -
arrow- to avoid
incorrect
settings.

– Before adjusting height of headlight, use

adjuster screw -1- to position light-dark
border below setting line.
– Then adjust light-dark border to setting
line from below.
– Turn adjuster screw -2- for lateral
adjustment.

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Note
The arrangement on the right headlight is
symmetrically opposite.
Vehicles with gas discharge headlights:
– After completing headlight adjustment,
end “Basic setting”, switch off ignition
and unplug diagnostic connector.

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