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Anyone have pic of their Led headlight cutoff? I think my passengerm might be too low

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Old Aug 19, 2025 | 03:15 AM
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Default Anyone have pic of their Led headlight cutoff? I think my passengerm might be too low

I had my passenger (rightside) light replaced due to DRL failure, and i think it might be a tad too low, keep in mind this is only a foot away from the garage wall... Anyone got any pics of how theirs look? The adjustment seems easy enough, apparently there are two screws to adjust height/horizontal level. Thanks!

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Old Aug 19, 2025 | 06:21 AM
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Take it back to the dealer who replaced it if you are not happy with the alignment of the light. Looking at the picture you posted, it appears to be fine, in my opinion.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2025 | 08:23 AM
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If you're on air suspension, the headlights are auto-leveling. If you're on coils, they aren't. That looks right to me, but I'll have to double check when i pull in my garage tonight.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2025 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by CincyRovers
If you're on air suspension, the headlights are auto-leveling. If you're on coils, they aren't. That looks right to me, but I'll have to double check when i pull in my garage tonight.
interesting, yeah it is on air suspension i thought you still had to manually do something to set a baseline or something
 
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Old Aug 19, 2025 | 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by CincyRovers
If you're on air suspension, the headlights are auto-leveling. If you're on coils, they aren't. That looks right to me, but I'll have to double check when i pull in my garage tonight.
I’m confused about the self leveling feature. I don’t have air suspension, mine is on coils, yet when I start my Defender, which is parked on my slightly sloped driveway, the headlight beam shifts up and down before settling into a fixed position. Auto-leveling or not? It is quite apparent as I can clearly see the illumination on the property across from me. This happens during every start. I might add that I leave my headlights on AUTO at all times, so I see it at every start when dark.

Update: Just found my own answer doing a little digging.

HEADLIGHT LEVELLING [G2464153]

NOTE:Automatic headlight levelling is only available on vehicles fitted with Premium LED headlights or electronic air suspension.

Automatic headlight leveling compensates the vertical aiming of the headlights to minimize the glare to other road users when the vehicle's attitude changes due to vehicle loading.

So, Auto-leveling is not limited to air suspension only, but is enabled with Premium LED headlights.
 

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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 08:34 AM
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Interesting! I retrofitted mine (on coils) with premium LEDs and they don’t auto-level. There must be another CCF setting that needs to be changed to enable that.
 
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Old Aug 20, 2025 | 09:28 AM
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On my previous P300 I had coil springs and premium LED headlights and they would auto-level.
 
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Old Aug 23, 2025 | 04:19 AM
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Originally Posted by wcc18999
Take it back to the dealer who replaced it if you are not happy with the alignment of the light. Looking at the picture you posted, it appears to be fine, in my opinion.
ok so i think something is definitely wrong, at night i see two cut off lines as if they are not aligned, and passenger side one is always lower, sigh...so frustrating because this was a headlight replacement done by JLR dealer here, seems they can never get anything done right the first time. I'm going to see if I can adjust the cut off manually otherwise it's going to be more time at the dealer

update: i was able to adjust the height pretty easily with the ***** on the headlight found here, also I have air suspension but manual adjustment was needed

 

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Old Aug 23, 2025 | 02:19 PM
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I just replaced mine myself (took like 20-25 minutes) and it's just plug n play. not alignment can be done as far as I can tell
 
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