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03-05-2012, 06:38 PM | #45 |
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Could be the actual motor in the housing or one of the leveling sensors.
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03-05-2012, 11:00 PM | #46 | |
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I seem to have the opposite problem. My lights auto adjust up and down at car start up but I find that they don't swivel left and right around corners. Maybe I don't have that option, but i thought that if you have the Xenons then you automatically have the automatic cornering ability. I also have the A on the light control round thing on the dashboard. Any ideas anyone???
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03-06-2012, 01:28 AM | #48 |
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if you're still under warranty you have to bring this to service and get it fixed. it think it's the best thing to do now.
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03-09-2012, 11:16 AM | #50 |
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my passenger side headlight is pointed to the floor and when i turn the car on, it seems to be demented when it auto levels. it kind of moves in the opposite direction than the driver side headlight which moves up then down. the passenger one kind of moves down then up but very slightly, its odd. plus the adjustment screw doesn't work. regardless, gonna try to remove the bumper and headlight and tomorrow and i'm guessing this is probably the issue. but i don't have many tools. can i remove the headlight and bumper with just a phillips screw driver and flat head screw driver?? does anybody know what tools are needed for the removal of bumper and headlight? i saw the DIYs and printed them (many thanks to the people who wrote those up) but they didn't mention what tools are needed. Thanks in advance for any help.
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03-09-2012, 02:59 PM | #51 | |
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08-27-2012, 09:24 AM | #55 |
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Let me make sure I understand correctly; The front sensors are for adaptive lights while the rears are for auto leveling?!
And may I ask where are the adjustment screws?! Are they on the headlights themselves?! Also where exactly is that yellow ball, I'm still not familiar enough with the car to tell from the close-up picture! |
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08-27-2012, 11:12 AM | #56 |
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The adjustment screws are found on the headlight housing, i believe the up and down screw is on top of the housing, while the left to right screw is on the back of the housing and not accessible if the headlight housing is still attached to the car.
THe yellow ball is in the headlight housing its self you need to remove the headlight and the back cover to look inside. Post #43 has the back of the housing off, the ball is attached to that silver round thing farthest to the left http://www.e90post.com/forums/showpo...9&postcount=43
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09-01-2012, 01:55 AM | #57 |
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My headlights are currently point way to low and it seems like it all happened after I put on the coils on my car. I havn't had a chance to check the arms that connects to the contorl arms but I'm sure one of them is off. I remember putting the driver side back on but I wasn't aware of the passanger side also having one since there were 4 people working on the car. Lets hope its a simple as reconnecting the small arms.
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10-18-2012, 05:12 PM | #60 |
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^ Sounds like you need a new housing.. maybe check ebay for some scrap headlights that you can get parts out of.. but meh, the odds don't look great.
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11-14-2012, 03:59 PM | #61 |
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Adaptive Headlight issue
I had an issue with left headlight (dealer broke the cover tab and water got in). They fixed it by putting a new cover on correctly a few days later but a few months later the light stopped working and wouldn't light up. Took it back and then I had a new SMC(adaptive headlight control module), a new control Xenon bulb ignition unit(ballast), and D1S bulb(plus igniter).
It auto levels at start up but the light won't turn left-right for the adaptive feature. However the right works fine. I don't see any incorrect coding when we pulled it from the FRM module. Also, shouldn't it be an all or nothing issue when it comes to having it in the VO and coding? There are no codes and the dealer now wants to replace the whole headlight assembly. They think it is a motor. I don't know how it was damaged for sure as I remember it working before it went out but is it possible it has popped out and this is a physical issue? The dealer broke a cover, bulb, and wire that they replaced. Perhaps they ham-handed this as well and I could fix it with a little bit of epoxy and fiddling. How could I diagnose? I look at diagrams and they all show the vertical aim stepper motor, but nothing shows a horizonal aim stepper motor. Also, I see when the car is off it appears the light is off center compared to the right one. It aims a little to the side away from the center. Any ideas? |
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05-18-2013, 08:18 PM | #62 |
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I have this problem after lowering spring installation, where are the actual leveling sensors? and is there anything that could have been disconnected around the suspension? When I turn on the car the lights go through the low high routine then immediately shine straight down and stay there, they still go left and right.
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05-18-2013, 08:24 PM | #63 |
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this happened to me before, luckily i was under warranty and they replaced the headlight for a brand new one. even though they were beetchy about it. good to know about this if it happens again, thanks for the info!
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06-04-2013, 10:56 PM | #64 | |
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The Up/Down is located on the rear suspension, I think on the right side. Determines how much the back of the car is raised/lowered due to weight/load and adjusts lights up/down accordingly.
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06-05-2013, 04:39 PM | #65 |
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Thanks man, I ended up jacking the car up to see if anything was out of place and I immediately noticed the leveling arm wasn't connected so I fixed it. Thanks for the reply
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