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markmotman AE/Manager/Owner Posts: 420 Class tested: 4, 7 Last Online: Apr 8, 2024 21:56:29 GMT 1 Likes: 73	mini headlights May 11, 2016 15:00:09 GMT 1 Back to Top Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by markmotman on May 11, 2016 15:00:09 GMT 1 I have an old mini in to test on Friday could someone explain how to test headlamp aim as i dont 100% understand. thanks in advance

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Post by lonewolf on May 11, 2016 15:29:11 GMT 1

That will depend on the headlamps fitted. The original sealed beam units may well have been replaced with a halogen set given its age as are most I have tested. If this is the case test as normal. If memory serves me correctly the sealed beam units fall into British American hot spot test

castrolrob MOT tester Posts: 4,380 Class tested: 4, 7 Last Online: Apr 24, 2024 14:00:26 GMT 1 Likes: 2,766	mini headlights May 11, 2016 15:38:10 GMT 1 markmotman likes this Back to Top Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by castrolrob on May 11, 2016 15:38:10 GMT 1 yeah,assuming sealed beam your looking for a hot spot(white bit)of the beam pattern roughly in the intersection point of all those silly lines in your beam tester,dont forget its on MAIN beam not dipped

lampy AE/Manager/Owner NT/AED Posts: 1,415 Class tested: 1, 2, 4, 7 Last Online: May 2, 2024 15:16:09 GMT 1 Likes: 1,143	mini headlights May 11, 2016 17:21:26 GMT 1 markmotman likes this Back to Top Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by lampy on May 11, 2016 17:21:26 GMT 1 If its an old mini I would class the headlamps having enough output to hit the aiming screen a result !!! Most of them are like a glo-worms armpit............
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castrolrob MOT tester Posts: 4,380 Class tested: 4, 7 Last Online: Apr 24, 2024 14:00:26 GMT 1 Likes: 2,766	mini headlights May 11, 2016 17:56:23 GMT 1 markmotman likes this Back to Top Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by castrolrob on May 11, 2016 17:56:23 GMT 1 to be fair most of em have been converted to halogens on the grounds of sanity,sorry I meant safety!dont worry about the headlights guy,worry about the rot,the balljoints,the rot,the subframe mounts,the rot....

mike617 AE/Manager/Owner owner ae tester Posts: 1,007 Class tested: 4 Last Online: May 3, 2024 16:59:55 GMT 1 Likes: 500	mini headlights May 11, 2016 18:10:33 GMT 1 markmotman likes this Back to Top Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by mike617 on May 11, 2016 18:10:33 GMT 1 Also the A post. In the rear side pockets their used to be a fibre/material card iff you pull it out you normaly find rot in their also worth pulling the back seat out to check the floor & seat belt mountings

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Post by stealth on May 11, 2016 21:50:15 GMT 1

Use the light meter on your beam tester. Move the beam tester up, down left & right until you get the highest reading. That shows the "hot spot". Then check the screen to see if the "area of maximum intensity" (the brightest bit) falls in the right place. There are some pictures in the Testers Manual.

Hands up how many folk didn't know what the little gauge is for. Hands up how many don't work.

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If I was to agree with you, that would make us both wrong !

castrolrob MOT tester Posts: 4,380 Class tested: 4, 7 Last Online: Apr 24, 2024 14:00:26 GMT 1 Likes: 2,766	mini headlights May 12, 2016 8:25:32 GMT 1 stealth likes this Back to Top Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by castrolrob on May 12, 2016 8:25:32 GMT 1 yup I do,and yup one of em doesn't work

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Post by castrolrob on May 12, 2016 17:55:13 GMT 1

May 11, 2016 15:00:09 GMT 1 markmotman said:

I have an old mini in to test on Friday could someone explain how to test headlamp aim as i dont 100% understand.

thanks in advance

will swop you for my last one of the day sight unseen.talbot express camper 1990 rrant

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Post by Paul on May 12, 2016 20:22:41 GMT 1

May 11, 2016 21:50:15 GMT 1 stealth said:

Use the light meter on your beam tester. Move the beam tester up, down left & right until you get the highest reading. That shows the "hot spot". Then check the screen to see if the "area of maximum intensity" (the brightest bit) falls in the right place. There are some pictures in the Testers Manual.

Hands up how many folk didn't know what the little gauge is for. Hands up how many don't work.

Got my hand up; inherited a grandfather tecalemit DE7188 reflex beam tester, (in a grandfather bay) if i slap it...the beam tester gauge responds, if i test it on a headlamp it does nothing. Phoned tecalemit & have now got the operating instructions. (Did refurbish the beam tester a year ago with another same model & its a 100% better than the original one inherited...just got to get this meter gauge to work...)

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Post by markmotman on May 13, 2016 13:00:36 GMT 1

Many many thanks to you all you have have all taught me so much.

The headlight was a sealed beam unit with E11 in a circle it also had usa and the wording drive left on the lens. So i went with the test for British american on main beam.

Rust wise it passed 2 inches of under seale helped lol

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