How to actually adjust your Tesla Model 3 headlights
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- A quick video demoing how to roughly perform a headlight adjustment for a Tesla Model 3 (RHD)
EMEA headlight adjustment steps: teslamotorsclu...
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...great vid, thanks for posting, hopefully I'll stop getting flashed now!
Thank you for this guide. I noticed driving at night was super tiring and I realised my headlights were only lighting up about 3 car lengths ahead of me... found a carpark with lots of flat space to a wall and found the left was dipped 4.4cm per metre, and the right by 6.7cm per metre! Adjusted back to spec (1cm per metre) and it's worlds better. Thanks again!
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Thank you very much for the offer. I've already wrapped my centre console with a matte black one so I'm good, keep it in case you need to replace yours in the future =).
There are 2 (in Europe) critical things you missed.
1) You need to have the car on ground that does not change elevation - flat is ideal - but otherwise constant slope. See note on how to do this.
2) In Europe we have road sign illumination , that is the upflick of light you are adjusting which means you must align the car exactly so that it is perpendicular to the markers on the wall, since the back wheels define the direction of travel of the car and hence the alignment of upflick light illumination direction as a function of car travel.
To perform both of these tasks you ideally need a laser level which
1) you put align on the rear wheels, checking the centre point of the front tires - and mark on the wall the incident point - both sides of the car.
2) You can then find the exact centre point of the car based on its running direction from the rear wheels.
3) You can find error of wall height measurement based on the laser level height at the rear wheels (how far is it off the ground), how far the front wheels differ from this height, and the offset at the wall you need to add/subtract from your 60cm height of the beam. Ie this 60 cm beam height is a function of the beam drop from the normal ride height of the car from the lights (70cm) to the wall after 9.5 meters to 60cm.
I can see from your video that you steered your car to avoid the pillar which mean the car is no longer perpendicular to the wall, so your road sign upflick of light will be misaligned left/right. I can also see that the underground garage has an expansion joint/drain between the car and the wall which often means the 2 sections of concrete floor slope in different directions for drainage, in your case , setting the beam too high.
This is why this sort of operation is done by a garage.
I thought I know English well but unfortunately did not understand basically anything from your text. Although would want to do this manual adjustment by myself.
Hi, you mean especialy Germany? If yes, i have the instructions in my Channel for adjusting the headlights. :) Greetz
Thank you matey , I got paranoid with people flashing their lights at me….top video
My lights were set too high from the showroom for some reason and were dazzling other drivers, so good to know this to avoid future embarrassment - great video many thanks! 🙂
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Oh wow thanks Michael! You are literally the first person to use my code. I didn't even know until I checked the 'loot box' on the app, it doesn't give any notification. Hope you enjoy your new vehicle!
@@wonked i feel honored mate, some appreciation for your work!
@@MikeyInThailand Welcome to the Tesla fam! ;)
thanks for the detailed information. now with the new 2021 matrix head lights, the light pattern is very different. how to set these properly?
Ty. Helped me out in less than the first 5 seconds :)
Thank you for the detailed information!
Thanks for your great video just brought a m3 and the headlights are shockingly bad setup hope following this helps
Excellent, thanks a lot 👍🏻😎
I think your car was not lined up with the wall. You should mark the center of the rear and front bottom of the car and tape a string to it to project the car center to the tape center when you are backed away. now both your lights are aimed left of the true goal positions.
Yep I had to do it properly after filming, but the technique is roughly the same as the service manual.
@@wonked perfect! I did not want to write as I expected you new better but it was killing me. Glad to hear you already had it! Great Video!
Really useful - thank you 👏
Thanks for the video! And by the way the word you were looking for is "vertex" lol ;)
Thanks, a very useful video.
Thanks very much
Thanks for your video, I tried to use it as a guide to adjust mine since Tesla had to replace driver side headlight twice in 2 months and in both cases they didn’t adjust my headlights. The thing is that the brightest point doesn’t move left and right. I asked a Tesla technician when he was performing some work on my car and he said that he doesn’t know if they actually could move left and right. I’m not sure why Tesla doesn’t put auto adjust option through OTA update
I saw a post on a forum saying the US models don't have the left/right adjustment and that it might be due to local regulations.
@@wonked thanks for your response, I guess I have to follow different procedures for my M3 North American specs
Check the links in the description there's a link to the NA manual as well.
@@wonked thank you, will do
Thanks!
Need this for Model Y 2023 🤣
I can not move my 2023 M3P lights left or right. Only up or down. Is it broken? Or did they change it so you cant move left or right anymore?
I believe in the US you can't move them left/right.
@@wonked Gotcha.. Mine seem to be shifted too far to the left. I have more light on that side than I do the right side, but maybe im trippin and its the same. Just seems that way. Thanks
Hello, your video is great; How high is the center point on the wall ?
70cm minus 1cm for every metre between the car and the wall. So if your car is 10m from the wall, 60cm. I just did mine 6m from the wall, so I put tape at 64cm height
We don’t have this feature in USA
I believe in US cars you can only adjust it up and down but not sideways. I have a link to the US steps in the description.
This will get your headlights in the ball park but this will never be perfect. I work for Mercedes Benz and we use a perfectly leveled platform to put the vehicle and and we have track built into the floor for the targets as well as using laser levels to exactly align everything.
I wish Tesla service did this 🥲
Good job i didn’t press that button
You have the 2018 Tesla Model 3 Performance. Very few other cars on the planet are better, all of which are Tesla’s
didnt know Daniel Ricciardo drives a tesla
ok it's 60 cm
Yep that's correct, if any steps are not clear the full details are in the link in the description.
No wonder Tesla's are always blinding me... Didn't know they allowed uninformed customers to just mess with it.
All cars allow customers to "mess with" headlight adjustment, and have for decades... Tesla just makes it easier, but gives a disclaimer to not.
The lights aren’t supposed to be level. If your country drives on the left side, your right headlight should be slightly lower to prevent blinding oncoming traffic. Visa versa is you drive on the right side of the road.
The video just describes the literal steps in Tesla’s own service manual which is free to access from service.tesla.com/ 🤷🏻♂️
@wonked yeah, I saw those and thanks a lot for finding and sharing them. Odds are that's the right way and I am wrong. It just makes more sense to me to have the oncoming traffic side slightly lower. 🙃
I think the shape of the light pattern is meant to provide the same effect of not blinding the oncoming traffic but I’m not 100% sure 😅
The worst cutoff line I have seen on any headlight ever! What are tesla even thinking with these headlights?! They look awful.
Agreed 👍
They were thinking about saving money.
How about buying a real car
How about getting a life.
Nah, these LED headlights are absolutely bullshit. Traditional headlights are best, safest for the driver and oncoming traffic. Elon needs to get Traditional old-school headlights NOW.
This was not helpful at all