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Old 09-27-13, 01:39 PM
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Retrofitters and Sakebomb headlight users

I am trying to figure out about the driving conditions you get with the headlights. I did a retrofit, everything turned out good for the most part except I get a lot of shaking on the highways over small bumps. My friend says it looks like my car has strobing lights at some points. So I am wondering do I get movement and shakiness from it being a pop up headlight, and since it's not fixed there is going to be that little movement? I have checked my fitment is alright, so I'm just wondering if it's just me, low speeds my projectors are fine. I was also wondering about the spring that attaches to the headlight bucket on the lower right hand side of it. Do we have to have that spring, I feel like that could be a possible spot for the shakiness also. Any advice would be nice, thanks.
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Sorry if its hard to read my post, was trying to multitask.
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Stiff suspension and hids do that. Think sharp cutoff of light pattern and relate that to your cars motion over bumps.

Ever had a sport bike behind you on a bumpy road?
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Make sure you attached the little spring at the bottom of the headlight housings. They are extremely shakey without it hooked up.
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with the light up, and the light down check for movement of the lid, if there is movement there are stops that can be adjusted. This would also add to excessive movement.
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Originally Posted by Monkman33
Stiff suspension and hids do that. Think sharp cutoff of light pattern and relate that to your cars motion over bumps.

Ever had a sport bike behind you on a bumpy road?
I actually tested this last night when a bike was behind me, so I was kind of thinking I was hopeless after that lol.

Bryan, do you think you could ever just put a 4th screw like the other sides instead of using a spring?
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I suppose you could but it would take some modification to do so. Not sure you'd gain much though as the spring holds it pretty steady on my own car
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Typically this is caused by worn out bushings in the headlight mechanism. There are a number of pivot points with plastic bushings... when these get worn out your headlights start to get wobbly. Start by checking and tightening the headlight pop up assembly bolts... if they are still moving you'll need to address the bushings.

Adding a 4th point on the other corner not only won't help but will prevent you from aiming the headlights properly... to aim they need to be able to pivot on the third missing point. The issue though is most likely the headlight assembly (if you did the projector install correctly that is). If not, your projector could actually be moving inside the housing contributing to the issue as well, and it's pretty easy to do "wrong" ... or a combination of a few different movements (projector in the headlight, the headlight housing itself, and the pop up assembly).

Good luck! Start with bolts and bushings.

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Thank you for the advice! I'll check the bushings and make sure everything is tightened down. Hopefully I can get everything fixed.
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There is an adjustment stop under the headlight cover. Take the cover off and flip your lights up. You can see it on the inside of the headlight housing. You have to loosen the 10mm nut and twist the stop out to make up for the slack. It drastically helped the shaking.
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