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VF’s only have up/down adjustment on their halogen headlamp assemblies and no longer have left/right adjustment. Seems to be a growing trend to remove adjustability (maybe to sell more body parts after minor crash damage) so ZB may not have headlamp aim adjustments at all
Anyway, roadworthy rules down under show both left and right low beam lamp horizontal beam cuts are at the same level from what I’ve read and seen on the focus charts. From memory they must be set 40mm below headlamp centre height when the car is a specific distance from a focus screen. The headlamp focus rules are technology agnostic, whether the lamps are halogen, hid, led or matrix makes no difference as left and right lamps must be at the same specified level.
NZed may be different but likely not in a big way.
HID lamps, due to their brightness must also have a self leveling system. In such cars, when they are turned on, the HID lamps cycle up and down before settling at their auto position with both left and right beam cuts level to each other. In such hid lamps, a faulty levelling motor can be seen during this cycling as the faulty lamp beam doesn’t move up/down.
I’d expect ZB matrix led headlamps to work in the similar way to HIDs on startup since such bright lamps also need self levelling system. And it must be cycled on startup to verified it’s ok. If the two lamps are not level (in normal low beam mode) them something seems wrong.
But if your ZB has halogens, if easily done check the bulb is correctly seated. If you have matrix leds, consider the above but also check the mode they’re in and whether you can turn off AFL and set a basic low beam as a cross check (hopefully it remembers such settings between shutdowns).
You could also park on a flat surface near a wall (car park?) and turn the headlamp level knob from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3 and hopefully you’ll see both left and right headlamp cut lines move brown equal amounts. If not something seems rather wrong (or AFL is playing funny tricks) so I’d want clear documentation from the Holden dealer that nothing is wrong.
Then also talk to the NZ registration authorities about the headlamp focus and the fact the two lamps are at different levels and see what they say. They should be able to provide you with some docs you can present to the Holden dealer that thinks your cross eyed lamps are ok.
Anyway, roadworthy rules down under show both left and right low beam lamp horizontal beam cuts are at the same level from what I’ve read and seen on the focus charts. From memory they must be set 40mm below headlamp centre height when the car is a specific distance from a focus screen. The headlamp focus rules are technology agnostic, whether the lamps are halogen, hid, led or matrix makes no difference as left and right lamps must be at the same specified level.
NZed may be different but likely not in a big way.
HID lamps, due to their brightness must also have a self leveling system. In such cars, when they are turned on, the HID lamps cycle up and down before settling at their auto position with both left and right beam cuts level to each other. In such hid lamps, a faulty levelling motor can be seen during this cycling as the faulty lamp beam doesn’t move up/down.
I’d expect ZB matrix led headlamps to work in the similar way to HIDs on startup since such bright lamps also need self levelling system. And it must be cycled on startup to verified it’s ok. If the two lamps are not level (in normal low beam mode) them something seems wrong.
But if your ZB has halogens, if easily done check the bulb is correctly seated. If you have matrix leds, consider the above but also check the mode they’re in and whether you can turn off AFL and set a basic low beam as a cross check (hopefully it remembers such settings between shutdowns).
You could also park on a flat surface near a wall (car park?) and turn the headlamp level knob from 0 to 1 to 2 to 3 and hopefully you’ll see both left and right headlamp cut lines move brown equal amounts. If not something seems rather wrong (or AFL is playing funny tricks) so I’d want clear documentation from the Holden dealer that nothing is wrong.
Then also talk to the NZ registration authorities about the headlamp focus and the fact the two lamps are at different levels and see what they say. They should be able to provide you with some docs you can present to the Holden dealer that thinks your cross eyed lamps are ok.