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Anyone else having this problem w/ Morimoto projectors?
Great product, but now my high beams are too high. Or more precisely, there is now such a divergence between the angle of the highs vs the lows that when the lows are adjusted properly, the highs are way too high, and when the highs are adjusted properly the lows are way too low. It's not even close. My lights are undamaged and the projectors are installed properly.
The only adjustability that can be potentially created is in the bracket that mounts the projector to the light housing. The projector angle needs to be changed in order to bring the low beam into greater parallelity with the high beam light. I was thinking of using washers between the turnbuckle and bracket to angle the projector.
Curious if anyone else has had this problem. I can't be the only one.
The Morimoto's already allow the low beams to stay on with the highs. The problem is the highs are shining up in the trees when the lows are adjusted properly.
For people with the projectors installed -- when you park in the garage, say, 5-10 feet from the wall, and put the high beams on, where is the fuzzy circle of high beam light concentrated? It should basically be right in the middle of the cutoff line of the low beams. For me it's a few inches above it, so out on the road it's way too high.
On both of my lights there were only 2 orange cushions per light. One of the side mounts was higher and would not accommodate one.
Correctamundo.
The best way to describe high beam/low beam adjustment is that the oval of the high beam projection should basically rest in the cradle made by the low beam projection (the light cutoff line). On my car, at 10' away from the garage wall, the oval is several inches above the low beam cradle, which is why out on the road the highs are pointing up toward the trees. I've got it sorted out now -- used small washers to add a spacer to two of the turnbuckles on each bracket, aiming the low beam higher to be more in line with the highs, so I could then lower the whole assembly. I wish the 993 lights were like the old H1's and had independently adjustable highs and lows.
I installed a set of the Morimoto projectors about a year ago and have the same problem. I recall checking the orange washer situation and being satisfied that the installation was "correct". The next step, never taken, was to call Retrofit for some advice but I've never gotten around to it, Mainly because my cynicism got the best of me. It seemed unlikely they'd have an answer. I do however take pleasure in knowing that I'm not alone. This may inspire me to get off my duff and attack the problem again.
Got impatient and took apart my lights and tried to use heat to "un-compress' the orange washers but it didn't work. So I went ahead and put nylon washers on the upper two turnbuckles to aim them towards the stock high beams. Will try to take another road test in the next few days, weather permitting.
I don't have pics in front of me, but the concept is simple enough. If the highs are too high, you want to adjust the low beams higher so you can then adjust the complete assembly lower.
The projector is mounted on a metal bracket with turnbuckles, that in turn attach to a fiberglass bracket that attaches to the plastic light housing with three security T20 torx bolts.
There's not much play in the fiberglass bracket, but there is under the turnbuckles. That's where the washers go. Between the turnbuckle and underside of the fiberglass bracket.
01-24-2019, 02:43 AM
Anyone else having this problem w/ Morimoto projectors?
