HID headlight position setting - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

radroach · 01-30-2014, 01:29 PM

What is the appropriate setting for the HID headlight cutoff? I find when I'm driving at night alone I'll go to the 0 position setting on the switch and bring the headlights to full tilt, and when I approach a car I'll set it down to 1. But wondering, if I leave it in the 0 setting is it obtrusive to oncoming drivers?

SirBrass · 01-30-2014, 01:33 PM

Our cars are low enough that 0 is just fine with factory HIDs.

meeskee2 · 01-30-2014, 01:40 PM

I usually leave mine on 1. I which they went higher though.

SirBrass · 01-30-2014, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by meeskee2

I usually leave mine on 1. I which they went higher though.

They do. Go to 0.

Vides990 · 01-30-2014, 01:45 PM

I stay at the 0 position and have had a few cars flash me, then I hit them with the high beams and that fixes that.

radroach · 01-30-2014, 01:46 PM

Thanks for the replies, it's definitely easier to see the road with the position at 0.

BRZZZZZZZZZZ · 01-30-2014, 01:49 PM

I go with 1 in the city, 0 outside the city at night, and 5 when its foggy + fog lights.

JS + BRZ · 01-30-2014, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Vides990

I stay at the 0 position and have had a few cars flash me, then I hit them with the high beams and that fixes that.

I like your style.

I put mine on 0.

meeskee2 · 01-30-2014, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SirBrass

They do. Go to 0.

I guess I was unclear. I know they go to 0 but I want them to go even higher than they do at the 0 position.

DarkSunrise · 01-30-2014, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by radroach

What is the appropriate setting for the HID headlight cutoff? I find when I'm driving at night alone I'll go to the 0 position setting on the switch and bring the headlights to full tilt, and when I approach a car I'll set it down to 1. But wondering, if I leave it in the 0 setting is it obtrusive to oncoming drivers?

On my STI, the "0" position was designed for normal driving. You would only switch to "1" if there were passengers or cargo weighing down the rear.

N1rve · 01-30-2014, 02:16 PM

Yeah I know what you mean. 0 is not high at all. The lights cut off below the rear license plate of most cars. I don't think there's a physical adjustment to the lights other than the one inside the car.

I have mine on 0 the entire time. Going up on numbers only lower the lights.

sprintertrueno86 · 01-30-2014, 03:07 PM

0 and never had anyone flash me.

SirBrass · 01-30-2014, 04:15 PM

We're really too low-slung to need to put the headlights anywhere other than 0.

I think going to something a little (not much though) higher power and higher tempurature (something like 6k) could help with the light casting.

That said, hi beams are perfectly adequate. Use them when canyon carving at night, exclusively unless following or I see oncoming traffic.

But yeah the low beams definitely need to be projected further out. Them being HIDs in the BRZ certainly helps a great deal (the difference between the low beams in my 08 WRX, which were standard halogens, and the HIDs my STI came with was very significant in the positive sense), but the low height of our cars still puts us at a bit of a disadvantage.

Problem is that if we angle them up farther, then farther out, they will be blinding other drivers. Higher power may work, but it can't be too high power, else we will dazzle drivers like they had a 150 lumen tac light strobe their eyeballs from 5 yards away.

soundman98 · 01-30-2014, 06:54 PM

i need to tweak mine.. been running them at 0 right now, but really need a 0.5 setting.. 1 is too low...

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N1rve Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2013 Drives: 2019 BMW ///M4 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 2,332 Thanks: 102 Thanked 1,167 Times in 714 Posts Mentioned: 28 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Yeah I know what you mean. 0 is not high at all. The lights cut off below the rear license plate of most cars. I don't think there's a physical adjustment to the lights other than the one inside the car. I have mine on 0 the entire time. Going up on numbers only lower the lights.

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